"My mother once told me that she hoped she would die of a heart attack, quickly. She didn't. She died from Alzheimer's, slowly. Yet through those years she never stopped reaching out to life. . . . I know that my mother's illness brought her losses. I believe that it brought her gifts as well, as I know it did to Wayne and me. She was our blessing, although a fierce one . . ."
For the four years from her diagnosis with Alzheimer’s until her death, authors Wayne and Terry Baltz were caregivers and advocates for Terry’s mother. What the books and experts and many lay persons told the Baltzes repeatedly—that this is a horrible disease which only gets worse each day—was true. But it proved to be only part of the truth, overlooking entirely the love and joy the three experienced, not only in spite of but often as a direct result of the illness.
Written in the alternating voices of Terry and Wayne, FIERCE BLESSING: A Journey into Alzheimer’s, Compassion, and the Joy of Being is an intimate, honest, and beautiful telling of their experiences over those amazing four years. The book is not a prescription for this incurable disease. It offers instead information at a deeper level, information essential not only to understanding and getting through such an experience, but for actually enhancing the lives of all involved. Fierce Blessing is true. It is real. It delivers aid and comfort to anyone with aging parents or loved ones.
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