Going Home

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Betty Jane Bredbenner - B.J. Bredbenner to her art clients - was a loving mother and intelligent successful woman. From raising five children while working as an E.R. nurse to starting a promising art career later in life all while running and staying healthy it seemed like she could keep on going forever.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Until she fell one day while on a jog with her dog Buddy.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>What seemed at first like a relatively simple injury actually marked BJ's first step on her journey with dementia. Years before an official diagnosis BJ's children grappled with her odd behaviors and confusing symptoms during a time when their family experienced one tragedy after another. In this debut non-fiction novel author David R. Bredbenner documents the difficult path his family tread as dementia tightened its grip on their mother turning a once vivacious creative powerhouse into a suspicious stranger. With poignant anecdotes keen insight and wisdom that only comes with experience Bredbenner narrates the often bewildering process of role reversal adult children face as their parents age. </span><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Readers will find comfort and can benefit from - especially those experiencing the same struggles. After all when life and illness strip away our sense of normalcy don't we all just want to go home?</span></p><p><br></p>