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- ISBN 9781839523410
- Dimensions: 148 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 14 Sep 2021
- Publisher: The Self-Publishing Partnership Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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The slow decline and death of a partner from dementia is traumatic. The burden of care over those last few years increases steadily. When death comes it is, surprisingly, a huge shock, even though long anticipated.
This collection of poems charts that journey into darkness, until the beginnings of healing appear. It is a catalogue of the progress of illness, death and the subsequence inevitable grief.
To the many men and women who have suffered the loss of a partner, the poems will strike a chord and help them to understand that they are not alone.
Colin Stern is a retired paediatrician whose wife Ann suffered from a rare form of dementia. He cared for her at home for the last six years of her life. His medical experience and training helped to make her decline and death as calm and peaceful as possible. This small collection of poems, charts the passing of Ann and his struggle to come to terms with her death. It is his hope that the poems will resonate with others experiencing similar loss and that they will find comfort in them.
