An incredibly kind & generous review of #FindingTheRightWords, the #memoir I wrote w/#neurologist Dr. Bruce Miller to honor my father, Jerry, who died of early-onset #Alzheimers. Thank you dear reader. Sending you strength.
June is Alzheimer's & Brain Health Awareness Month. Be good to your #brain. Sleep well, eat right, don't ignore hearing issues or what may be depression, exercise, & play with friends (social isolation is a modifiable risk factor, actually all these things are).
The videos of #Trump's attempts at speech are making me think even more about #language acquisition and #degeneration. How I would love a #neurologist to do a close reading of his sentences -- the #repetition, the frequent absence of #grammar, whatever stands out. Anyway, here is another image of the brain from #FindingTheRightWords. Thank you to the amazing #CarolinePrioleau of #UCSF for this beautiful and helpful drawing.
Since language acquisition and fluency is on my #brain (all of the videos of #Trump's attempts at speech are firing lots of my own cylinders!), here is another image of the brain from #FindingTheRightWords. Thank you to the amazing #CarolinePrioleau of #UCSF for this beautiful and helpful drawing.
I am honored to be presenting my work on #FindingtheRightWords in UCLA's Americanist Research Colloquium. I wrote this #memoir w/#neurologist Dr. Bruce Miller about my father's early-onset #Alzheimer's. He became ill when I was a #graduate student in the #Berkeley #English dept. so speaking about this to grad students (& faculty) in the English dept.@ #UCLA is especially meaningful. I'll share what I know now about #dementia & #grief & what I wish I knew then.
I am honored to be presenting my work on #FindingtheRightWords in UCLA's Americanist Research Colloquium. I wrote this #memoir w/#neurologist Dr. Bruce Miller about my father's early-onset #Alzheimer's. He became ill when I was a #graduate student in the #Berkeley #English dept. so speaking about this to grad students (& faculty) in the English dept.@ #UCLA is especially meaningful. I'll share what I know now about #dementia & #grief & what I wish I knew then.
#Neurologist Ibrahim Imam reads lots of books about #medicine, esp. the #brain, and reviews them on #TheDoctor'sBookshelf. He wrote a wonderful review of my #memoir, #FindingTheRightWords & named it one "the most incredibly moving patient memoirs about the brain." Turns out the review was one of the most read of 2023. Below are links to the original review, to the list of #memoirs, & to 2023's most-read reviews.
https://thedoctorsbookshelf.com/2023/02/26/finding-the-right-words/
#Neurologist Ibrahim Imam reads lots of books about #medicine, esp. the #brain, and reviews them on #TheDoctor'sBookshelf. He wrote a wonderful review of my #memoir, #FindingTheRightWords & named it one "the most incredibly moving patient memoirs about the brain." Turns out the review was one of the most read of 2023. Below are links to the original review, to the list of #memoirs, & to 2023's most-read reviews.
https://thedoctorsbookshelf.com/2023/02/26/finding-the-right-words/
Thank you, dear reader, for this incredibly kind review of #FindingtheRightWords, the #memoir I wrote with #neurologist, #Dr.BruceMiller. #Dementia doesn't take a break for the holidays, which means #caregivers don't get a break either. Sending strength to those of you who are living with #Alzheimer's, caring for someone with it or another form of dementia (#FTD, #CTE, #vascular, #LewyBodies, #early-onset, #Creutzfelt-Jakob, and others), and/or loving someone with #dementia.
Thank you, dear reader, for this incredibly kind review of #FindingtheRightWords, the #memoir I wrote with #neurologist, #Dr.BruceMiller. #Dementia doesn't take a break for the holidays, which means #caregivers don't get a break either. Sending strength to those of you who are living with #Alzheimer's, caring for someone with it or another form of dementia, and/or loving someone with #dementia.
Honored to be discussing #FindingTheRightWords: A Story of #Literature, #Grief, and the #Brain with members of #UCLA's #ARC (Americanist Research Colloquium) on November 9th from 4 to 5 pm. Thank you #ChrisLooby and the UCLA #EnglishDepartment for the invitation.
#NationalCaregiver'sMonth
#litstudies
#memoir
#NarrativeMedicine
On #WorldAlzheimer'sDay, I want to thank #BruceMiller, #neurologist extraordinaire, for listening w/such #empathy to stories about my father, Jerry, so he could get to know him thru my memories & write #FindingTheRightWords w/me. What a gift he gave me - helping me honor my dad in the way I needed to - & the world. His knowledge of #dementia & ability to communicate it in a way that we can all understand is invaluable. Here is a photo of my dad laughing at his dad, my pop, who is being silly.
On #WorldAlzheimer'sDay, I want to thank #BruceMiller, #neurologist extraordinaire, for listening w/such #empathy to stories about my father, Jerry, so he could get to know him thru my memories & write #FindingTheRightWords w/me. What a gift he gave me - helping me honor my dad in the way I needed to - & the world. His knowledge of #dementia & ability to communicate it in a way that we can all understand is invaluable. Here is a photo of my dad laughing at his dad, my pop, who is being silly.
Yesterday, I spoke about #FindingtheRightWords, the #memoir I wrote with #neurologist #Dr.BruceMiller, at the #Kensington in #RedondoBeach. Here I am with a new friend, Mel, and his buddy, appropriately named Buddy. How wonderful and enlightened that #dogs can be at the Kensington.
Yesterday, I spoke about #FindingtheRightWords, the #memoir I wrote with #neurologist #Dr.BruceMiller, at the #Kensington in #RedondoBeach. Here I am with a new friend, Mel, and his buddy, appropriately named buddy. How wonderful and enlightened that #dogs can be at the Kensington. All power to the #DogsOfMastodon!
At 3 pm PT, I will be talking about what I learned about #neurology, #caregiving, #grief, and #NarrativeMedicine when writing the #memoir about my father's early-onset #Alzheimer's -- #FindingTheRightWords -- with #UCSF #neurologist #Dr.BruceMiller. The presentation is sponsored by the #Hawai'i State Rural Health Organization and Project ECHO. All are welcome. Attached is the #registration link.
At 3 pm PT, I will be talking about what I learned about #neurology, #caregiving, #grief, and #narrativeMedicine when writing the #memoir about my father's early-onset #Alzheimer's -- #FindingTheRightWords -- with #neurologist #Dr.BruceMiller. The presentation is sponsored by the #Hawaii State Rural Health Organization and Project ECHO. All are welcome. Attached is the #registration link.
#FindingTheRightWords turns 2 today. Here I am w/my co-author #Dr.BruceMiller, a #doctor whose #empathy, #knowledge, and #generosity knows no bounds. That my father died of #early-onset #Alzheimer's couldn't be changed, but writing the #memoir w/ Bruce changed me, helping to put that experience of profound fragmentation (my father's; mine) into something a little more whole. W/so much gratitude to Bruce and the many #neurologists working to #EndAlz always and esp. during #worldalzheimersmonth
#FindingTheRightWords turns 2 today. Here I am w/my co-author #Dr.BruceMiller, a #doctor whose #empathy, #knowledge, and #generosity knows no bounds. That my father died of #early-onset #Alzheimer's couldn't be changed, but writing the #memoir w/ Bruce changed me, helping to put that experience of profound fragmentation (my father's; mine) into something a little more whole. W/so much gratitude to Bruce and the many #neurologists working to #EndAlz always and esp. during #WorldAlzheimer'sMonth.
It's #WorldAlzheimer'sMonth and I got to work with some brilliant people at #UCSF when writing #FindingTheRightWords with #neurologist #Dr.BruceMiller. The book has images in black and white but the book website has the images in color. Here's one, created by Caroline Prioleau, that pictures key parts of the #cerebral #cortex. Knowing these words might be helpful when talking to #doctors. #EndAlz
So honored that https://daughterhood.org/ has chosen #FindingTheRightWords for its September #Book of the Month. #EndAlz
