No Way Out of This - by Sue Fagalde Lick (Paperback)

About the Book

"No Way Out of This is not the kind of Alzheimer's memoir where you read about a noble, self-sacrificing wife who gives up everything to take care of her husband. We see such spouses in books and movies--but they're not telling the whole story. Nobody's that good. Certainly Sue Lick isn't. Sue's much-older husband, Fred, is a forgetful man. She's always found that charming. But when his absentmindedness worsens into full-blown dementia, she suddenly finds herself dealing with his illness alone. Struggling to care for Fred and manage their two loveable but incorrigible dogs and still find time to write and play music, Sue constantly faces impossible choices. Tell people about his illness? Let him drive? Put him in an institution? Treat his medical problems, or let him go? Every decision feels wrong--but in the end, their love carries them through it all."--

Book Synopsis

When Sue Lick's husband's charming forgetfulness worsens into dementia, she trades her life of writing, music, and travel with the love of her life for years of caregiving, guilt, and impossible decisions. And yet the love remains.