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Before I Forget
- Love, Hope, Help, and Acceptance in Our Fight Against Alzheimer's
- By: B. Smith, Dan Gasby, Michael Shnayerson
- Narrated by: B. Smith, Dan Gasby
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 211
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 182
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 181
Restaurateur, magazine publisher, celebrity chef, and nationally known lifestyle maven, B. Smith is struggling at 66 with a tag she never expected to add to that string: Alzheimer's patient. She's not alone. Every 67 seconds someone newly develops it, and millions of lives are affected by its aftershocks.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Poignant Memoir, Stirring Call to Action
- By Gillian on 01-29-16
- Before I Forget
- Love, Hope, Help, and Acceptance in Our Fight Against Alzheimer's
- By: B. Smith, Dan Gasby, Michael Shnayerson
- Narrated by: B. Smith, Dan Gasby
Learned so much!
Reviewed: 05-11-16
Touching story about how dementia progresses. Lots of advice on how to cope as the caregiver. In a sense a love story.
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When Breath Becomes Air
- By: Paul Kalanithi, Abraham Verghese - foreword
- Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra, Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 29,484
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 25,890
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 25,825
At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Phenomenal book!
- By A. Potter on 01-16-16
Moving Story
Reviewed: 04-29-16
I have recommend this book to all of my friends. A moving story about life work and human questioning about values when one faces death.
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