A Glass Full of Tears Offered for Bloggy Giveaways Carnival
October 27, 2008 by Mary Emma Allen
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
I’m offering a copy of A Glass Full of Tears, Dementia Day-By-Day by June Lund Shiplett as a giveaway here at Alzheimer’s Notes as part of the Bloggy Giveaways Carnival.
In this book, June Lund Shiplett shares the journal she kept during her husband Charlie’s encounter with multi-infarct dementia and the challenges she faced as his caregiver. This is a particularly good book for a spouse caregiver since so many books are written from the child caregiver point of view, as mine was.
June Lund Shiplett is the author of numerous romance novels and is known to many readers of this genre. Sometimes we don’t realize our favorite authors often face the same or similar challenges that we do.
Guidelines for the giveaway – Leave a comment below. Share with us, if you’d like, your role in regard to Alzheimer’s or another form or dementia. The giveaway is open only to those living in the United States or who have a US mailing address.
Deadline – the giveway will run until Friday, October 31, 11:59 PM (eastern). Make sure you leave your e-mail (it won’t be published) so I can contact you if you’re the winner. Only one entry per person will be accepted.
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Hi, My grandmother’s long time boyfriend has alzheimers. He was progressivally getting worse until it seemed over night he was a child. Please enter me for this book for my grandmother. thanks!
Thanks for a generous giveaway. I hope I’m the lucky winner.
I would love to read this book. I have not had first hand experience with this disease, but have seen how my SIL had to deal with it.. I think we can all learn something… I hope I win…
Come to see my giveaway…
~Ann
What a great idea for a giveaway. My very dear Grandma slowly slipping away with Alzheimer’s. I am glad that she still remembers me but she never remembers my kids ( she is still glad to see them). Its been hard on my mom, but I am amazed at her dedication to her own mother. They take her out of the nursing home almost every weekend, and visit her frequently too. She still comes to all the family events, even with all the challanges of taking care of her.
I have no personal experience with dementia but I did have to watch my mom widdle away and die five years ago. My mother in law met up with an equally upsetting fate. There is nothing worst then watching someone you love dealy slip away a little bit more each day, trying to hold on to those precious fleeting moments.
I enjoy reading stories about love, life and making you make the most of the moments you have.
Thank you for a wonderful giveaway.
My grandmother IL has this disease. I shared her story in this post:
http://lbratina.blogspot.com/2008/08/celebration-of-pegs-spirit.html
It affects our entire family every day. It is a horrible disease to truly lose ones self and the person you love this way.
I’ve worked with demntia patients in a nursing home before, and its very sad to see what there going through, but I found it very rewarding also since they are still wonderful people even though there lost in time.
Thanks for the give away! I oversee my aunt’s care as she suffers from the disease.
I’m a nurse who frequently deals with those suffering from Alzheimer’s and dementia. I love working with geriatrics. That’s my true passion. I work at a nursing home as a CNA for 2 years and there was a certain resident who had Alzheimer’s. He was only in his 50s or 60s. But he had lost ability to speak and had to be led around whereever he needed to go, eventually he lost the ability to walk. One day, after I had worked there a year or more, he spoke to me. He asked me if we were going to go get something to drink. The entire time I had worked there I had never heard him talk. It’s the small triumphs that mean all the world with Alzheimer patients.
Sadly I have watched a few of my grandparents struggle with dementia. It is very scary.
would love to win…looks great, please enter me…mrs.mommyyatgmail.com
We have a man in our Church whose wife suffers from this heart-wrenching disease. He desires to be independent in caring for her and I would love to be able to give him this book. Thank you!
My uncle had Alzheimer’s
My DH’s grandma has dementia… It’s heartbreaking to watch her “slip away” and then come back… Poor grandpa is suffering also because they have been together for almost 70 years and he hates seeing her confused and unhappy later…. wiicked13 [at] yahoo [dot] com
My mother n law has demintia….Have to help out a lot with her. Thanks for the giveaway. semtaylor(at)yahoo.com
We think my great uncle has alzheimers but we’re not sure. I would love to learn more about the signs and how to cope.
I work with several people with dementia with Home Instead Senior Care.
Carolyn
shelt28@yahoo.com
thebarberbunch.blogspot.com
Awesome Giveaway. Thank you for the chance to win
I fear that my mom might end up with dementia. She’s as ok now as she can be, but after being diagnosed and going in for surgery for an Acoustic neuroma tumor, her brain works in funny ways now. If she gets an MRI without getting her shunt reprogrammed, she gets very confused. She thought I still lived with her, and on a trip to the hospital here in Chicago, a trip i couldn’t make, she thought I was there and my aunt and step-father were going to leave me behind. Sounds like an interesting book and I’d love to win.
eyeslikesugar (at) gmail (dot) com
What a great giveaway… I would love to read this book, my mother has alzheimers, and I need all the help i can get. Thanks Pat H
I’m Mom’s caretaker. She’s got Dementia and hers got worse after we buried HER Mom with it in Spring 2001. My brother and I decided that Mom was unable to live alone, so she moved in with me in Nov. 2001. Now she’s mostly non-verbal, except for babbling. She’s also beginning to fall, since her knees sometimes fold up under her when she stands. I’d be thrilled to win this book.
I work with patients with Alzheimer’s disease and would love to read the book.
My grandpa had Dementia and we didn’t know a whole lot about it but it is so hard to watch and live with. I would love to have this book for my family to read and then pass on to another family facing this struggle.
My grandfather has been suffering from dementia for the past year or so. It’s been difficult to watch, but I can’t even imagine how difficult it’s been for his wife. I’m ashamed to admit it’s so unfamiliar and awkward to me that I haven’t dealt with it well at all. I would love to learn more about this, I’m sure I’ll encounter dementia again in my life.