Guess who made a dramatic change in her novel?! ME.
Basically I changed the father's disease from Alzheimer's to LBD mainly because almost everyone who's published a novel has several on Alzheimer's disease and also because well this disease is so much more interesting.
For those of you who aren't up to date with it, it's basically Alzheimer's + Parkinson's disease.
Alzheimer's somewhat "runs" in my family. My mother's side of the family to be exact. Her mother--my grandmother--has a somewhat mild but progressive form of dementia (because not all dementias are Alzheimer's, as the public would like to believe) and my mother's father--my grandfather--has a sister with dementia.
I don't want to think of what that might mean for my mother.
Eitherway, LBD.
I want to touch a heart with this book so I'm going to try and talk with as many caregivers and even LBD patients as I physically can.
Love always.
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