Download PDF My Mom My Hero AlzheimerA mother and daughter bittersweet journey Lisa R Hirsch 9780615773988 Books
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#1 Best Seller in Memoirs category (June 2013) #7 Best Seller in Dementia (June 2013) #3 's "Most Wished For" in Dementia Category (June 2013) A Daughter’s Newfound Love When Lisa Hirsch found out her mother, Ruth, had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, her love, appreciation, and caring for her mother was transformed. To Lisa’s surprise, it has brought her and Ruth closer together than they’ve ever been. My Mom My Hero tells the story of this mother-daughter relationship through a series of entries from Lisa’s internationally popular blog. Ultimately this is an uplifting and inspirational book for anyone who’s going through the difficult and often lonely ordeal of caring for a loved one who suffers from this devastating illness. “My Mom My Hero is filled with love and a deep appreciation for the human spirit.†—Laura Stein, best-selling author “This book is a rare gift for anyone who reads it.†—Holly Robinson, author of Sleeping Tigers and The Wishing Hill “My Mom My Hero is a light of inspiration in a world that can be dark and frustrating.†—Franz Wisner, New York Times best-selling author of Honeymoon With My Brother and How the World Makes Love
Download PDF My Mom My Hero AlzheimerA mother and daughter bittersweet journey Lisa R Hirsch 9780615773988 Books
"This is not the type of book I expected....I was thinking it would a bio, this is a series of blogs ( with readers comments included, only I guess so the author can show us how wonderful and helpful she thinks she is, I`m pretty sure she would not include anything I have to say!) Although there are dates on each blog, they seem disjointed, really are just like journal notes, not even blogs. I was a caregiver for my elderly parents and it's rather annoying that she calls herself a caregiver when she lives in NY and mother lives in Florida....Wish I1d read the reviews before I bought this so-called book! Don`t waste your time, let alone your money on this!"
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My Mom My Hero AlzheimerA mother and daughter bittersweet journey Lisa R Hirsch 9780615773988 Books Reviews :
My Mom My Hero AlzheimerA mother and daughter bittersweet journey Lisa R Hirsch 9780615773988 Books Reviews
- Lisa lives in New York with her husband, and her mom lives in Florida. Lisa was never very close to her mother, and the two did not get along very well in their younger years. Her mom now has Alzheimer’s and the relationship has changed. Lisa now feels understanding and love toward her ailing mom that she has never felt before. The true story has no revelations about the disease or any enlightenment for others facing the same ordeal with a loved one. It’s just one woman’s personal journal sharing her conversations and thoughts. Pictures of Lisa as a youngster with her mom are interesting additives and take up space, but have little to do with the present situation.
This book was a disappointment for me. I thought it would be a narrative of a daughter as a caretaker for her Mom who had Alzheimer's; however, it was more of a diary of mostly long-distance phone conversations between the two. There were some accounts of the daughter’s visits with her mom, but Lisa is not the caretaker. Each chapter includes posts from reader’s of Lisa’s on-line blog. The husband’s comments at the beginning of the book somewhat sums up the whole narrative. As someone who went thorough the same kind of long-distance ordeal as Lisa, I feel compassion for both Lisa and her mom, but I did not find this an overly inspirational story about the disease. - My Mom My Hero -Alzheimer's, A Mother and Daughter's Bittersweet Journey reads like a blog not the kind of blog that keeps you up until 3am in the morning with kleenex and a cold cup of coffee, but the kind you drag through dutifully because you have become committed to hearing the story to its end. The book comes complete with several comments to each "blog post" included, and while some of these comments are additionally insightful, most are nothing more than back-patting and cheers to the author.
It's difficult to rate a book written honestly, and on such a sensitive topic as Alzheimer's, poorly. At first, I was endeared to Hirsch's forgiveness toward her mother and embrace of the present over relentlessly clinging to the past. And yet, while this theme continues, the book develops none of these notions there is little exposition to explain to us what Hirsch's mother was like in her younger years, or even what the mother-daughter relationship had been like in contrast to the present day. Further, many chapters leave hanging developments in the "plot;" a chapter will end in concern on one issue, and then never return to that issue in a later chapter. Indeed, the entire book ends this way abruptly, without any hint to how this story ends.
Many of the chapters return to the same themes over and over again how proud Hirsch is of her mother's memories, how hurt she is when those memories are gone, how much she wishes she could live closer to her mother, how much she attempts to appreciate the moments she has before her mother's disease progresses further. There is no self-development of the author or in her subject throughout the text, however; it becomes a repetitive nod of the same routine. Even the pictures - which come with each chapter - become recycled. (In fact, these photos are still recycled on the author's blog, which remains active at the time I write this review).
Ultimately, this book feels little more than a cut-and-paste job from Hirsch's blog. Like the blog it comes from, My Mom My Hero lacks emotional depth or sincerity; it glosses over emotions in a way that leaves the reader unable to truly identify with the author's inner turmoils. With time and sincenrity, Hirsch could write a moving, emotional memoir of her mother and the shocking cruelty of Alzheimer's, but this book is a draft in comparison to what could be. - This is not the type of book I expected....I was thinking it would a bio, this is a series of blogs ( with readers comments included, only I guess so the author can show us how wonderful and helpful she thinks she is, I`m pretty sure she would not include anything I have to say!) Although there are dates on each blog, they seem disjointed, really are just like journal notes, not even blogs. I was a caregiver for my elderly parents and it's rather annoying that she calls herself a caregiver when she lives in NY and mother lives in Florida....Wish I1d read the reviews before I bought this so-called book! Don`t waste your time, let alone your money on this!
