Before I forget : love, hope, help, and acceptance in our fight against alzheimer's
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"I know where I'm going. I'm still myself. I just can't remember things as well as I once did. So on short trips, I work hard not to be confused. I'll say to myself, "What are we going to do? How long are we staying?" It's like I'm talking to my other self--the self I used to be. She tells me, "This is what we need to buy--not that." I'm conscious of that other self guiding me now." Restaurateur, magazine publisher, celebrity chef, and nationally known lifestyle maven, B. Smith is struggling at 64 with a tag she never expected to add to that string: Alzheimer's patient. She's not alone. Every 67 seconds someone newly develops it, and millions of lives are affected by its aftershocks. B. and her husband, Dan, working with Vanity Fair contributing editor Michael Shnayerson, unstintingly share their unfolding story. Crafted in short chapters that interweave their narrative with practical and helpful advice, readers learn about dealing with Alzheimer's day-to-day challenges: the family realities and tensions, ways of coping, coming research that may tip the scale, as well lessons learned along the way. At its heart, though, Before I Forget is a love story: illuminating a love of family, life, and hope"--
"Working with Vanity Fair contributing editor Michael Shnayerson, B. and her husband, Dan, share B.'s unfolding story on dealing with early-onset Alzheimer's. Crafted in short chapters that interweave their narrative with practical and helpful advice, readers learn in small bites about dealing with Alzheimer's disease's day-to-day challenges, the family tensions, and ways of coping, as well as gain tips on diet and exercise from a lifestyle maven using her decades of expertise in a new and unexpected way"--
"Working with Vanity Fair contributing editor Michael Shnayerson, B. and her husband, Dan, share B.'s unfolding story on dealing with early-onset Alzheimer's. Crafted in short chapters that interweave their narrative with practical and helpful advice, readers learn in small bites about dealing with Alzheimer's disease's day-to-day challenges, the family tensions, and ways of coping, as well as gain tips on diet and exercise from a lifestyle maven using her decades of expertise in a new and unexpected way"--
Available copies
- 16 of 16 copies available at Westchester Library System.
Current holds
0 current holds with 16 total copies.| Location | Call Number / Shelving Location |
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| Chappaqua Library | 616.831 SMITH (Text) Nonfiction |
31005600004636 |
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| Greenburgh Public Library | B SMITH (Text) Biography |
31009153350321 |
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| Harrison Public Library | BIO SMITH (Text) Biography |
31010300065762 |
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| Hendrick Hudson Free Library | B SMITH (Text) Biography |
31016151530937 |
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| Irvington Public Library | BIOGRAPHY SMITH, B (Text) New Book |
31012154320236 |
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| John C. Hart Memorial Library | B SMITH (Text) Biography |
31030154427967 |
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| Larchmont Public Library | B SMITH (Text) Biography |
31014152357608 |
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| Mount Kisco Public Library | 616.831 SMITH (Text) Nonfiction |
31017151727481 |
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| Mount Vernon Public Library | 616.8 S (Text) Nonfiction |
31018154841477 |
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| Mount Vernon Public Library | 616.8 S (Text) Nonfiction |
31018154893205 |
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