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Honey, I Sold the Red Cadillac: Learning to Cope With Lewy Body Dementia
Carol developed the first typical symptoms of Parkinson’s disease in 2011, but the diagnosis was soon changed to Lewy Body Dementia (LBD). The first physical symptoms were quickly followed by hallucinations, which at first were benign, but quickly became quite scary. While caring for Carol, Bob slowly, painfully learned how to cope with her physical as well as mental symptoms. This book describes those lessons in the hope that others caring for LBD patients will benefit from them, and their path down this road will be easier.
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Honey, I Sold the Red Cadillac: Learning to Cope With Lewy Body Dementia
Carol developed the first typical symptoms of Parkinson’s disease in 2011, but the diagnosis was soon changed to Lewy Body Dementia (LBD). The first physical symptoms were quickly followed by hallucinations, which at first were benign, but quickly became quite scary. While caring for Carol, Bob slowly, painfully learned how to cope with her physical as well as mental symptoms. This book describes those lessons in the hope that others caring for LBD patients will benefit from them, and their path down this road will be easier.
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Honey, I Sold the Red Cadillac: Learning to Cope With Lewy Body Dementia

Honey, I Sold the Red Cadillac: Learning to Cope With Lewy Body Dementia

by Bob Wolf
Honey, I Sold the Red Cadillac: Learning to Cope With Lewy Body Dementia
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Honey, I Sold the Red Cadillac: Learning to Cope With Lewy Body Dementia

Honey, I Sold the Red Cadillac: Learning to Cope With Lewy Body Dementia

by Bob Wolf

Overview

Carol developed the first typical symptoms of Parkinson’s disease in 2011, but the diagnosis was soon changed to Lewy Body Dementia (LBD). The first physical symptoms were quickly followed by hallucinations, which at first were benign, but quickly became quite scary. While caring for Carol, Bob slowly, painfully learned how to cope with her physical as well as mental symptoms. This book describes those lessons in the hope that others caring for LBD patients will benefit from them, and their path down this road will be easier.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781483598345
Publisher: BookBaby
Publication date: 05/25/2017
Pages: 70
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Bob was born in Panama in 1937. He moved to Southern California with his family when he was 7 years old. After obtaining a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering at UCLA and a Master’s degree in Operations Research at NYU, he worked in the computer and telecommunications industry. While working at Pacific Telephone Co. he met Carol. Carol had a Bachelor’s degree from Wooster University and was in the first class of women admitted to the Master’s program at Harvard University. After a two-year courtship they were married on Dec. 31, 1984. The marriage created a “Brady Bunch” family: three children from Bob’s earlier marriage and two from Carol’s first marriage. Both Bob and Carol were retired and living in Lafayette, CA (a small town in Northern California) when Carol first detected a tremor in her left hand, foretelling the onset of Parkinson’s disease. This was the start down that long twisting path that is described in this book.

Table of Contents

Prologue vii

The First Symptoms 1

The Learning Process Begins 3

We Move to a New Home 5

Things Start to Get Interesting 7

The Diagnosis Changes 10

Syncope 13

Variety in the Hallucinations 15

Caregivers 19

Falls 21

The Sinemet Experience 23

The Little League Baseball Team 25

Rotating Neurologists 28

The Broken Nose 31

Mealtimes 33

Honey, I Sold the Red Cadillac 35

My Mother Is in the Hospital 37

Phone Calls From the Boss 39

Getting Dressed 41

Moving Into Assisted Living 43

A Change of Venue 46

Who Am I 49

Hallucinations 50

The Birthday Party 52

The Presidential Election 54

Iceland 56

Final Thoughts for Others Traveling This Path 58

About the Author 62

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