Farewell To My Companion

Farewell To My Companion recounts the trials and tribulations faced by the author when caring for her husband a patient with Alzheimers Disease. It highlights the doubts and the dedication involved and it is written with love and that sense of obligation inherent in such a task. This is the personal journey of a wifes care for her husband once a journalist and successful politician now a victim of Alzheimers Disease. Apart from a brief introduction to their past as a couple it concentrates on the final years of his illness on the terrible memory loss which affected their relationship. It delves too into his medical care and hospital treatment but most of all into the doubts and intricacies of his wifes emotions as she confronts his end and the knowledge of her solitary future. It is a book written with the aim of sharing with others who might be passing through a similar experience in the hopes that it might encourage them and offer them a friendly hand.