I read this book via an Amazon-US KINDLE Unlimited download.

After coming home from the hospital, my dear OH needed to have assistance doing what we take for granted: washing, getting dressed, and a little for eating – cutting up the food. Then the dear broke a hip and got a partial hip replacement; all the while needing a wheelchair.

Luckily there had been a LTC in effect, which I had a slight ordeal in getting it to kick in, and with that we’d gotten a 24/7 home attendant to take care of the “patient.” Even so, I had to keep my eyes open to see if everything was being done right, leaving little or no time for me to do my writing and read/review books, and the other things I love doing, as I had no one else to look to for assistance.

So, I’m grateful for the author, Kathryn Leigh Scott, for sharing her own experiences and writing about it in the sympathetic manner she has. She endeavors to tell her readers, especially those who are the caregiver for someone, that in order to survive this stressful period in their lives one needs to possess a demeanor which contains the right combination of: love, perseverance, and sheer willpower.

For me, this period last only 13 months. My dear became able to ambulate using a rollator, and do everything else without any assistance whatsoever so the extend we no longer had need of the home attendant we had. When this happened, like the author has stated, my experience during this period had indeed taken a toll on me; a toll which has now disappeared, and we’re now doing basically everything the two of us used to do.

The author has done a marvelous job in telling her readers that they’re not alone; that they need to look some sort of support system, so they can achieve some form/any form of respite from the drudgery they usually have to endure; it is for this reason I’ve given Ms. Scott 5 STARS for her endeavor here. ( )