Jeanne L. Lee | Akateeminen Kirjakauppa

Just Love Me reveals the thoughts and emotions of a woman struggling with a life suddenly unmanageable. Hospitalizations, suicide attempts, and finally an arduous search for an accurate diagnosis. By looking at the youthful, vital, and attractive woman before them, for years doctors never suspected the culprit to be Alzheimer's Disease. It was, Lee's book joins only a handful of other books written by persons living with early-stage dementia. This book should be required reading for anyone with even the least contact with a person with dementia, whether of the Alzheimer's type, Frontal Lobe (or Pick's Disease), Huntington's Disease, multiple sclerosis, or any number of other degenerative cognitive conditions. Whether birth, marriage, friendship, or profession relates you to someone with dementia, in Lee's book you will be exposed to a lot of information not taught in medical books. Lee's very personal, candid description of her life experiences before, approaching, and during the early stages of AD enables readers to better understand people with dementia. By getting inside the mind of the author and experiencing with her the worries and frustrations that tormented her then and now, the symptoms of Alzheimer's become less enigmatic for the reader.