Death in Slow Motion
Subtitle: My Mother's Descent into Alzheimer's
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: January 21, 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780066213965
First sentence: September: About eleven months since we moved my mother to California to live with us, I wake at dawn from queasy dreams where I'm sliding down steep slimy banks of mucky pools or flying in a crowded flimsy airplane being pulled to earth by heavy gravity or searching for lost kittens in a dank primeval forest.
Description: The author recounts her mother's struggle with Alzheimer's, describing the challenging process of caring for her mother through the stages of the disease and how it compromised their formerly close relationship.