The Long Goodbye: Lewy Body Dementia - Alzheimer's First Cousin - Paperback

by Barbara J. Secklin (Author)

A ten year journey down the long spiral of Lewy Body Dementia takes a couple from an active busy-every-day life to a completely sedentary existence.This is the story of their struggle.

Author Biography

Barbara J. Secklin is 84 years young. She has seven children who include retired business owners, published authors, a college professor, a physicist, teachers and a computer tech. She also has 19 grandchildren, and 15 great-grandchildren. After a 30-plus year love affair with the state of Arizona, she moved back to her home state of Wisconsin, but still cannot get used to the winters. Besides writing poetry, she's enjoyed many creative pursuits through the years, some of which are painting, pottery and sculpture, designing jewelry, and teaching wire wrapping and weaving. While in Arizona she also spent time camping, hiking, and swimming; and together with her husband of nearly 56 years, traveling the United States - exploring many of the National Parks. Barbara is an avid reader and puzzle-book aficionado, which in turn, some claim, has turned her into a walking thesaurus. She now spends most mornings as the editor of her daughter's novels, for which she is paid exorbitant amounts of coffee. In the future, she plans to co-author a novel with said daughter, and one day hopes to revisit her beloved Arizona.