It’s true that we don’t laugh a lot as caregivers. That means we are extra grateful when someone makes us laugh in the midst of this challenging life. And it always turns out to be a fellow caregiver—often who went thru a horrendous time before us, and who has enough perspective on the caregiving scene to look back and find the humor.
Judith Henry’s book has that. Her book is subtitled “A Practical Memoir” and it is that.
It’s her own story, and from that experience of caring for two ill and aging parents she extracts practical and helpful info that benefit the rest of us.
And we readers can trust her cause she tells the whole truth—the hard parts, the crazy parts, the “I’m losing my mind” parts and the loving parts.
Here are a couple of chapter titles just to give you the flavor:
Chapter One: I’m OK and You’re Going to Be Ok
Chapter Ten: My Dad Was a Lousy Tipper
Chapter Fourteen: In My Father’s House There Are Many Boxes
Chapter Twenty: The Facts of Life (A different perspective)
Her chapters also include beautiful short essays on love and literature and learning about sex as a 13-year-old reading Lady Chatterley’s lover, so yes, crazy as it may seem “The Dutiful Daughter’s Guide to Caregiving could make a great gift for someone—all of us—of a certain age.
