{"product_id":"living-beside-the-leaving-a-daughters-story-of-alzheimers-caregiving-and-loss-9798250279444","title":"Living Beside the Leaving: A Daughter's Story of Alzheimer's, Caregiving, and Loss","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Caroline Shelby\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Personal Memoirs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThere is a kind of grief that begins before goodbye. This is anticipatory grief.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Alzheimer's disease began changing my mother, I did not yet have language for what I was living through. I only knew that something in our relationship had shifted. I was still her daughter, but I was also becoming her caregiver. I was trying to stay present, but part of me was already bracing for what was coming. I was already practicing goodbye long before the final goodbye.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiving Beside the Leaving\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e follows the complicated and often lonely space of anticipatory grief: the decisions no one feels ready to make, like surrendering car keys; the guilt that comes with exhaustion; the tenderness that still appears, like the flicker of recognition in a favorite song; and the ache of missing someone while they are sitting right in front of you.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is also a book about holding on to the whole person, not only the illness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe relationship before caregiving changed it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe ordinary moments that become proof of love later.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe person who existed before the diagnosis became the center of the story.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten for adult children, caregivers, spouses, and anyone who has loved someone through Alzheimer's disease, illness, or decline, \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiving Beside the Leaving\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e is a story about presence, responsibility, and love. It follows what it takes to stay human through caregiving's ordinary demands, impossible decisions, and final hours at the bedside.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor anyone who has ever thought, I am losing them, but they are still here, this book offers language for what you may not have known how to name and the quiet reminder that you are not alone in it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47892797128855,"sku":"9798250279444","price":1217.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798250279444.webp?v=1781189026","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/living-beside-the-leaving-a-daughters-story-of-alzheimers-caregiving-and-loss-9798250279444","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}