By Gail Bradney on December 30, 2011
One month after her husband-to-be proposed to Dr. Diana Denholm, he was diagnosed with colon cancer. She married him, and for the next 11 years until his death she was his primary caregiver as he suffered through surgery, chemo, and congestive heart failure, followed by a heart transplant, skin cancer, a choking disorder, Parkinson’s, and many more dire conditions—ranging from gout to osteoarthritis—too numerous to name here. Upon hearing this story, is it so wrong to feel sympathy for the wife?
Posted in Gail Bradney, Health, Home/Family/Food, Self-help/Motivational | Tagged caregiver, caregiver story, caregiver wife, caregiving, Diana Denholm PhD, gail bradney, hunter house publishers, The Caregiving Wife's Handbook |
By Gail Bradney on December 7, 2011
Every once in a while I read a book that motivates me to action. The new one by financial advisor and eldercare expert Harold L. Lustig did just that. In his curiously titled Naked in the Nursing Home: The Woman’s Guide to Paying for Long-Term Care without Going Broke, Lustig introduces a topic to which, admittedly, I hadn’t previously given much thought. But now I definitely will.
Posted in Gail Bradney, Health | Tagged david zumpano, elder advice, eldercare book, financial health, gail bradney, harold lustig, long term healthcare book, naked in the nursing home, nursing home book, nursing home help |
By Gail Bradney on November 10, 2011
The Shaman and the Ironman—it sounds a bit like a pair of superheroes. But when shaman-healer Brant Secunda and six-time world champion triathlete Mark Allen teamed up to write their newest title, Fit Soul-Fit Body: 9 Keys to a Healther, Happier You, they really did create something extraordinary.
Posted in Gail Bradney, Health, Self-help/Motivational | Tagged BenBella Books, Brant Secunda, Fit Body, Fit Soul, gail bradney, Mark Allen |
