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An incredibly kind & generous review of #FindingTheRightWords, the #memoir I wrote w/#neurologist Dr. Bruce Miller to honor my father, Jerry, who died of early-onset #Alzheimers. Thank you dear reader. Sending you strength.

June is Alzheimer's & Brain Health Awareness Month. Be good to your #brain. Sleep well, eat right, don't ignore hearing issues or what may be depression, exercise, & play with friends (social isolation is a modifiable risk factor, actually all these things are).

#EndAlz

The videos of #Trump's attempts at speech are making me think even more about #language acquisition and #degeneration. How I would love a #neurologist to do a close reading of his sentences -- the #repetition, the frequent absence of #grammar, whatever stands out. Anyway, here is another image of the brain from #FindingTheRightWords. Thank you to the amazing #CarolinePrioleau of #UCSF for this beautiful and helpful drawing.

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Since language acquisition and fluency is on my #brain (all of the videos of #Trump's attempts at speech are firing lots of my own cylinders!), here is another image of the brain from #FindingTheRightWords. Thank you to the amazing #CarolinePrioleau of #UCSF for this beautiful and helpful drawing.

#EndAlz

I am honored to be presenting my work on #FindingtheRightWords in UCLA's Americanist Research Colloquium. I wrote this #memoir w/#neurologist Dr. Bruce Miller about my father's early-onset #Alzheimer's. He became ill when I was a #graduate student in the #Berkeley #English dept. so speaking about this to grad students (& faculty) in the English dept.@ #UCLA is especially meaningful. I'll share what I know now about #dementia & #grief & what I wish I knew then.

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I am honored to be presenting my work on #FindingtheRightWords in UCLA's Americanist Research Colloquium. I wrote this #memoir w/#neurologist Dr. Bruce Miller about my father's early-onset #Alzheimer's. He became ill when I was a #graduate student in the #Berkeley #English dept. so speaking about this to grad students (& faculty) in the English dept.@ #UCLA is especially meaningful. I'll share what I know now about #dementia & #grief & what I wish I knew then.

#EndAlz
#NarrativeMedicine

#Neurologist Ibrahim Imam reads lots of books about #medicine, esp. the #brain, and reviews them on #TheDoctor'sBookshelf. He wrote a wonderful review of my #memoir, #FindingTheRightWords & named it one "the most incredibly moving patient memoirs about the brain." Turns out the review was one of the most read of 2023. Below are links to the original review, to the list of #memoirs, & to 2023's most-read reviews.

https://thedoctorsbookshelf.com/2023/02/26/finding-the-right-words/

https://thedoctorsbookshelf.com/2023/02/11/the-most-incredibly-moving-patient-memoirs-about-the-brain/

https://thedoctorsbookshelf.com/

#EndAlz

#Neurologist Ibrahim Imam reads lots of books about #medicine, esp. the #brain, and reviews them on #TheDoctor'sBookshelf. He wrote a wonderful review of my #memoir, #FindingTheRightWords & named it one "the most incredibly moving patient memoirs about the brain." Turns out the review was one of the most read of 2023. Below are links to the original review, to the list of #memoirs, & to 2023's most-read reviews.

https://thedoctorsbookshelf.com/2023/02/26/finding-the-right-words/

https://thedoctorsbookshelf.com/2023/02/11/the-most-incredibly-moving-patient-memoirs-about-the-brain/

https://thedoctorsbookshelf.com/

#EndAlz

Thank you, dear reader, for this incredibly kind review of #FindingtheRightWords, the #memoir I wrote with #neurologist, #Dr.BruceMiller. #Dementia doesn't take a break for the holidays, which means #caregivers don't get a break either. Sending strength to those of you who are living with #Alzheimer's, caring for someone with it or another form of dementia (#FTD, #CTE, #vascular, #LewyBodies, #early-onset, #Creutzfelt-Jakob, and others), and/or loving someone with #dementia.

Thank you, dear reader, for this incredibly kind review of #FindingtheRightWords, the #memoir I wrote with #neurologist, #Dr.BruceMiller. #Dementia doesn't take a break for the holidays, which means #caregivers don't get a break either. Sending strength to those of you who are living with #Alzheimer's, caring for someone with it or another form of dementia, and/or loving someone with #dementia.

#EndAlz

Honored to be discussing #FindingTheRightWords: A Story of #Literature, #Grief, and the #Brain with members of #UCLA's #ARC (Americanist Research Colloquium) on November 9th from 4 to 5 pm. Thank you #ChrisLooby and the UCLA #EnglishDepartment for the invitation.

#NationalCaregiver'sMonth
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#NarrativeMedicine

Honored to be discussing #FindingTheRightWords: A Story of #Literature, #Grief, and the #Brain with members of #UCLA's #ARC (Americanist Research Colloquium) on November 9th from 4 to 5 pm. Thank you #ChrisLooby and the UCLA #EnglishDepartment for the invitation.

#NationalCaregiver'sMonth
#litstudies
#memoir
#NarrativeMedicine

Honored to be discussing #FindingTheRightWords: A Story of #Literature, #Grief, and the #Brain with members of #UCLA's #ARC (Americanist Research Colloquium) on November 9th from 4 to 5 pm. Thank you #ChrisLooby and the UCLA #EnglishDepartment for the invitation.

#NationalCaregiver'sMonth
#litstudies
#memoir
#NarrativeMedicine

Honored to be discussing #FindingTheRightWords: A Story of #Literature, #Grief, and the #Brain with members of #UCLA's #ARC (Americanist Research Colloquium) on November 9th from 4 to 5 pm. Thank you #ChrisLooby and the UCLA #EnglishDepartment for the invitation.

#NationalCaregiver'sMonth
#litstudies
#memoir
#NarrativeMedicine

On #WorldAlzheimer'sDay, I want to thank #BruceMiller, #neurologist extraordinaire, for listening w/such #empathy to stories about my father, Jerry, so he could get to know him thru my memories & write #FindingTheRightWords w/me. What a gift he gave me - helping me honor my dad in the way I needed to - & the world. His knowledge of #dementia & ability to communicate it in a way that we can all understand is invaluable. Here is a photo of my dad laughing at his dad, my pop, who is being silly.

On #WorldAlzheimer'sDay, I want to thank #BruceMiller, #neurologist extraordinaire, for listening w/such #empathy to stories about my father, Jerry, so he could get to know him thru my memories & write #FindingTheRightWords w/me. What a gift he gave me - helping me honor my dad in the way I needed to - & the world. His knowledge of #dementia & ability to communicate it in a way that we can all understand is invaluable. Here is a photo of my dad laughing at his dad, my pop, who is being silly.

Yesterday, I spoke about #FindingtheRightWords, the #memoir I wrote with #neurologist #Dr.BruceMiller, at the #Kensington in #RedondoBeach. Here I am with a new friend, Mel, and his buddy, appropriately named Buddy. How wonderful and enlightened that #dogs can be at the Kensington.

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#WorldAlzheimersMonth
#DogsofMastodon

Yesterday, I spoke about #FindingtheRightWords, the #memoir I wrote with #neurologist #Dr.BruceMiller, at the #Kensington in #RedondoBeach. Here I am with a new friend, Mel, and his buddy, appropriately named buddy. How wonderful and enlightened that #dogs can be at the Kensington. All power to the #DogsOfMastodon!

At 3 pm PT, I will be talking about what I learned about #neurology, #caregiving, #grief, and #NarrativeMedicine when writing the #memoir about my father's early-onset #Alzheimer's -- #FindingTheRightWords -- with #UCSF #neurologist #Dr.BruceMiller. The presentation is sponsored by the #Hawai'i State Rural Health Organization and Project ECHO. All are welcome. Attached is the #registration link.

#WorldAlzheimersMonth
#EndAlz

At 3 pm PT, I will be talking about what I learned about #neurology, #caregiving, #grief, and #narrativeMedicine when writing the #memoir about my father's early-onset #Alzheimer's -- #FindingTheRightWords -- with #neurologist #Dr.BruceMiller. The presentation is sponsored by the #Hawaii State Rural Health Organization and Project ECHO. All are welcome. Attached is the #registration link.

#WorldAlzheimersMonth
#EndAlz

#wasfehlt : ein #Emoji für "gern geschehen", "de nada", "keine Ursache", "you're welcome"...
Oder gibts da schon was gutes?

#conlang #communication #findingTheRightWords

#FindingTheRightWords turns 2 today. Here I am w/my co-author #Dr.BruceMiller, a #doctor whose #empathy, #knowledge, and #generosity knows no bounds. That my father died of #early-onset #Alzheimer's couldn't be changed, but writing the #memoir w/ Bruce changed me, helping to put that experience of profound fragmentation (my father's; mine) into something a little more whole. W/so much gratitude to Bruce and the many #neurologists working to #EndAlz always and esp. during #worldalzheimersmonth

#FindingTheRightWords turns 2 today. Here I am w/my co-author #Dr.BruceMiller, a #doctor whose #empathy, #knowledge, and #generosity knows no bounds. That my father died of #early-onset #Alzheimer's couldn't be changed, but writing the #memoir w/ Bruce changed me, helping to put that experience of profound fragmentation (my father's; mine) into something a little more whole. W/so much gratitude to Bruce and the many #neurologists working to #EndAlz always and esp. during #WorldAlzheimer'sMonth.

It's #WorldAlzheimer'sMonth and I got to work with some brilliant people at #UCSF when writing #FindingTheRightWords with #neurologist #Dr.BruceMiller. The book has images in black and white but the book website has the images in color. Here's one, created by Caroline Prioleau, that pictures key parts of the #cerebral #cortex. Knowing these words might be helpful when talking to #doctors. #EndAlz

So honored that https://daughterhood.org/ has chosen #FindingTheRightWords for its September #Book of the Month. #EndAlz

Thank you for taking this picture of the display of #FindingTheRightWords, #TsgoynaTanzman, fellow panelist and author of Hope After #Stroke: The #Caregiver's 12 Week Journal and Workbook. It was great hearing about your work and #SheriSnelling's at last week's #KensingtonSierraMadre #book event. #EndAlz

Thank you for taking this picture of the display of #FindingTheRightWords, #TsgoynaTanzman, fellow panelist and author of Hope After #Stroke: The #Caregiver's 12 Week Journal and Workbook. It was great hearing about your work and #SheriSnelling's at last week's #KensingtonSierraMadre #book event. #EndAlz

Thank you for taking this picture of the display of #FindingTheRightWords, #TsgoynaTanzman, fellow panelist and author of Hope After #Stroke: The #Caregiver's 12 Week Journal and Workbook. It was great hearing about your work and #SheriSnelling's at last week's #KensingtonSierraMadre #book event. #EndAlz

Thank you for taking this picture of the display of #FindingTheRightWords, #TsgoynaTanzman, fellow panelist and author of Hope After #Stroke: The #Caregiver's 12 Week Journal and Workbook. It was great hearing about your work and #SheriSnelling's at last week's #KensingtonSierraMadre #book event. #EndAlz

Thank you for taking this picture of the display of #FindingTheRightWords, #TsgoynaTanzman, fellow panelist and author of Hope After #Stroke: The #Caregiver's 12 Week Journal and Workbook. It was great hearing about your work and #SheriSnelling's at last week's #KensingtonSierraMadre #book event. #EndAlz

I'll be at the #Kensington in #SierraMadre on Saturday, August 19th from 1 to 3 pm with authors #SherriSnelling, a #gerontologist, and #TsgoynaTanzman, a speech language #pathologist. The topic is #caregiving and I look forward to sharing what I learned at #UCSF's #MAC (Memory and Aging Center) while writing #FindingTheRIghtWords (published by #JohnsHopkinsUniversityPress) with #neurologist, #BruceMiller, and what I have learned since its publication. #EndAlz

I'll be at the #Kensington in #SierraMadre on Saturday, August 19th from 1 to 3 pm with authors #SherriSnelling, a #gerontologist, and #TsgoynaTanzman, a speech language #pathologist. The topic is #caregiving and I look forward to sharing what I learned at #UCSF's #MAC (Memory and Aging Center) while writing #FindingTheRIghtWords (published by #JohnsHopkinsUniversityPress) with #neurologist, #BruceMiller, and what I have learned since its publication. #EndAlz

I'll be at the #Kensington in #SierraMadre on Saturday, August 19th from 1 to 3 pm with authors #SherriSnelling, a #gerontologist, and #TsgoynaTanzman, a speech language #pathologist. The topic is #caregiving and I look forward to sharing what I learned at #UCSF's #MAC (Memory and Aging Center) while writing #FindingTheRIghtWords (published by #JohnsHopkinsUniversityPress) with #neurologist, #BruceMiller, and what I have learned since its publication. #EndAlz

I'll be at the #Kensington in #SierraMadre on Saturday, August 19th from 1 to 3 pm with authors #SherriSnelling, a #gerontologist, and #TsgoynaTanzman, a speech language #pathologist. The topic is #caregiving and I look forward to sharing what I learned at #UCSF's #MAC (Memory and Aging Center) while writing #FindingTheRIghtWords (published by #JohnsHopkinsUniversityPress) with #neurologist, #BruceMiller, and what I have learned since its publication. #EndAlz

I'll be at the #Kensington in #SierraMadre on Saturday, August 19th from 1 to 3 pm with authors #SherriSnelling, a #gerontologist, and #TsgoynaTanzman, a speech language #pathologist. The topic is #caregiving and I look forward to sharing what I learned at #UCSF's #MAC (Memory and Aging Center) while writing #FindingTheRIghtWords (published by #JohnsHopkinsUniversityPress) with #neurologist, #BruceMiller, and what I have learned since its publication. #EndAlz

Dear reader, how sorry I am about your father's sudden death. Devastating. I'm glad, though, that despite our very different experiences of a beloved father's death, #FindingtheRightWords spoke to you. #EndAlz, #NarrativeMedicine, #neurology, #dementia, #grief.

This review of #FindingTheRightWords, the #memoir I wrote with #UCSF #neurologist, #BruceMiller, is everything and more. Thank you, reader. #EndAlz

I am honored to be discussing #caregiving, with these other authors, at the #Kensington #Caregiver Summer #BookClub on August 9th from 1 to 3 pm in #SierreMadre. My focus will be on #dementia, specifically #Alzheimer's. I will share what I learned studying neurology for a year at #UCSF's #MemoryAndAgingCenter & what I learned writing #FindingTheRightWords, a tribute to my beloved father who had #early-onset AD, with the extraordinary, empathic, & brilliant #neurologist #Dr.BruceMiller. #EndAlz

@jhupress is having a sale through June 6. The 30% off discount code is HMOR23, and if you spend $50 or more you get free shipping. The #memoir I wrote with #neurologist #Dr.BruceMiller -- #FindingTheRightWords: A Story of Literature, Grief, and the Brain -- is included in the sale. If you decide to read it, I hope you find our words helpful. Here's a link to the #book website. https://weinsteinandmiller.com #bookstodon, #narrativemedicine, #lithub, #EndAlz

@jhupress is having a sale through June 6. The 30% off discount code is HMOR23, and if you spend $50 or more you get free shipping. The #memoir I wrote with #neurologist #Dr.BruceMiller -- #FindingTheRightWords: A Story of Literature, Grief, and the Brain -- is included in the sale. If you decide to read it, I hope you find our words helpful. Here's a link to the #book website. https://weinsteinandmiller.com #bookstodon, #narrativemedicine, #lithub, #EndAlz

Please consider buying #FindingtheRightWords: A Story of Literature, Grief, and the Brain, published by #jhupress while it's being discounted. The #memoir is about my father's early-onset #Alzheimer's, which I wrote with #neurologist Dr. Bruce Miller. Readers have said it captures the complexities of #grief that often accompany #dementia, & the #neurology behind the many diseases (#FTD, #CTE, et al.) comprising #dementia. #EndAlz, #medhums, #litstudies, #narrativemedicine https://weinsteinandmiller.com

Please consider buying #FindingtheRightWords: A Story of Literature, Grief, and the Brain, published by #jhupress while it's being discounted. The #memoir is about my father's early-onset #Alzheimer's, which I wrote with #neurologist Dr. Bruce Miller. Readers have said it captures the complexities of #grief that often accompany #dementia, & the #neurology behind the many diseases (#FTD, #CTE, et al.) comprising #dementia. #EndAlz, #medhums, #litstudies, #narrativemedicine https://weinsteinandmiller.com

#BruceMiller and I wrote #FindingtheRightWords for people with #dementia, their #caregivers, their loved ones, their #nurses and #doctors, including #neurologists, #geriatricians, and #psychiatrists. #narrative medicine cannot cure #Alzheimer's, but the power of #empathy, intense #listening, and #storytelling can help immensely. We are so grateful this reader thinks our book is helpful, even beautiful.💜

#BruceMiller and I wrote #FindingtheRightWords for people with #dementia, their #caregivers, their loved ones, their #nurses and #doctors, including #neurologists, #geriatricians, and #psychiatrists. #narrative medicine cannot cure #Alzheimer's, but the power of #empathy, intense #listening, and #storytelling can help immensely. We are so grateful this reader thinks our book is helpful, even beautiful.💜

#BruceMiller and I wrote #FindingtheRightWords for people with #dementia, their #caregivers, their loved ones, their #nurses and #doctors, including #neurologists, #geriatricians, and #psychiatrists. #narrative medicine cannot cure #Alzheimer's, but the power of #empathy, intense #listening, and #storytelling can help immensely. We are so grateful this reader thinks our book is helpful, even beautiful.💜

#BruceMiller and I wrote #FindingtheRightWords for people with #dementia, their #caregivers, their loved ones, their #nurses and #doctors, including #neurologists, #geriatricians, and #psychiatrists. #narrative medicine cannot cure #Alzheimer's, but the power of #empathy, intense #listening, and #storytelling can help immensely. We are so grateful this reader thinks our book is helpful, even beautiful.💜

5.0 out of 5 stars
Valuable memoir
April 10, 2023
Excellent and thoughtful. The interdisciplinary elements, including the combination of neurology background, literature, and personal reflection, add to the narrative; would recommend to those who are caring for a loved one with dementia. Sparks meaningful conversation and reflection.
A nice review of #FindingtheRightWords, the story of my father's #earlyonsetAlzheimer's disease, #grief, and #neurology, written with #BruceMiller of #UCSF.

5.0 out of 5 stars
Valuable memoir
April 10, 2023
Excellent and thoughtful. The interdisciplinary elements, including the combination of neurology background, literature, and personal reflection, add to the narrative; would recommend to those who are caring for a loved one with dementia. Sparks meaningful conversation and reflection.
A nice review of #FindingtheRightWords, the story of my father's #earlyonsetAlzheimer's disease, #grief, and #neurology, written with #BruceMiller of #UCSF.

5.0 out of 5 stars
Valuable memoir
April 10, 2023
Excellent and thoughtful. The interdisciplinary elements, including the combination of neurology background, literature, and personal reflection, add to the narrative; would recommend to those who are caring for a loved one with dementia. Sparks meaningful conversation and reflection.
A nice review of #FindingtheRightWords, the story of my father's #earlyonsetAlzheimer's disease, #grief, and #neurology, written with #BruceMiller of #UCSF.

5.0 out of 5 stars
Valuable memoir
April 10, 2023
Excellent and thoughtful. The interdisciplinary elements, including the combination of neurology background, literature, and personal reflection, add to the narrative; would recommend to those who are caring for a loved one with dementia. Sparks meaningful conversation and reflection.
A nice review of #FindingtheRightWords, the story of my father's #earlyonsetAlzheimer's disease, #grief, and #neurology, written with #BruceMiller of #UCSF.

#DashaKiper writes about #dementia and #caregiving and identifying with the narrator of #Melville's #Bartleby. In #FindingtheRightWords, I write about identifying with Bartleby in that for a very, very long time, I preferred not to look at my father's #Alzheimer's. My dear friend, co-author, #neurologist, and empath #Dr.BruceMiller helped me look. He looked with me. My father died many years ago, but it remains extraordinarily hard and painful to look. https://lithub.com/what-melvilles-bartleby-the-scrivener-tells-us-about-memory-loss/ #EndAlz