Thursdays With Mom: Learning, Laughing, and Loving as a Caregiver - Paperback
Thursdays With Mom: Learning, Laughing, and Loving as a Caregiver - Paperback
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by Susan M. Daniel (Author)
Thursdays With Mom is a tender, true collection of short stories from the years the author spent as primary caregiver for her mother in her 80s, as dementia slowly changed the woman they all loved. Through funny, bittersweet, and honest vignettes-from grocery runs and Starbucks treats to holiday mishaps and "happy hour" Manhattans-the book captures a vibrant mom whose big heart, humor, and stubborn independence shine through even as memory fades. Each chapter closes with a "Lesson Learned," offering gentle, hard-won insights on patience, perspective, and choosing to see the goodness in circumstances we cannot control.
Told with warmth and humility, these stories follow the family's journey from early warning signs to increasing confusion, financial chaos, and medical decisions, all the way to support groups and learning how to set boundaries without losing compassion. The author writes both as a daughter and a caregiver, reflecting on stress, guilt, laughter, and grace, and showing how small everyday moments-coffee, car rides, inside jokes-can become precious anchors in the midst of decline. This book will resonate with adult children caring for aging parents, dementia and Alzheimer's caregivers, and anyone looking for reassurance that they are not alone in the mix of love, exhaustion, frustration, and gratitude.
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