A bittersweet memoir about life and loss. When her mentally ill brother developed lung cancer, author Katherine Flannery Dering had to overcome her reluctance to deal with the troubled man and step up to help in his care. While maneuvering through the maze of our mental health system, she (and her eight siblings) got to know social workers and the employees of nursing homes on a first name basis, saw friends and family less often, missed work, and ate fewer meals at home and more fast food. Along the way, she changed in unforeseen ways, and her perception of her ill brother, Paul, changed as well.--Publisher's website.
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- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Date published
- 2014.
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 616.89/80092
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-us---
- ISBN
- 9781927637210 9781927637227
- LCCN
- RC514
- LCCN Item number
- D474 2014eb
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- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (224 pages)
- Published in
- Dundas [Ontario
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- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)slc00234970 (OCoLC)890934513 (CaOOCEL)466292
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- To all the orderlies and social workers and nursing 3
- Authors statement 4
- Advance Reviews 5
- 1. Hawks on the River 7
- 2. Shot 11
- 3. Childhood by Numbers 19
- 4. White Plains New York 31
- Painting of our house in White Plains by 31
- M. Grace Flannery 31
- 5. Christmas past 39
- 6. Scalped 44
- 7. Leaving 55
- 8. Taking turns 65
- 1971 Back l to r Dad Mother Sheila Monica 73
- Charlotte Katherine Mary Grace John Patrick. Middle Grandma and Grandpa Lesperance. Front Julia Ilene Paul 73
- 9. Visiting Days 75
- 10. The Great Emptying 80
- 11. The Ground Shifts 88
- 12. Shapeshifter 98
- 13. Release 102
- 14. Bond James Bond 111
- 15. The Consequences of Smoke 121
- 16. Transitioning 132
- 17. Lost 142
- 18. A turn of events 150
- 19. A life 161
- 20. Testing 163
- 21. Stevie 168
- 22. Andromeda 170
- 23. Bon Voyage 173
- Nick 177
- Paparazzi 178
- 24. Visiting 180
- 25. Reunion 197
- 26. Indians 201
- 27. A Call 205
- 28. Eulogy for Uncas 208
- Authors collection of remembrance cards 210
- 29. A different Christmas 216
- About the Author 222
- About the Cover Art and Artist 222
- Acknowledgments 224
