Learning to Float: Memoir of a Caregiver-Husband

Allan and Deloris Ament's lives take a dramatic turn when Deloris suffers a debilitating stroke. No longer an equal partner in marriage, Allan becomes Deloris's primary caregiver, responsible for maintaining their household and her well-being. Learning to Float describes Allan's transformation from a criminal defense attorney to a compassionate, emotionally vulnerable caregiver. Drawing on contemporaneously written emails and private journal entries, Ament unflinchingly exposes his emotional, mental, and physical ups and downs, consistently focusing on the love, humor, and opportunities for personal and spiritual growth he experiences on this journey. Anyone with the possibility of becoming a caregiver for a loved one, now or in the future, will benefit from the insights Ament shares. Everyone will be buoyed by the love Allan and Deloris experience as they face their new normal.

Author: Allan B. Ament
Publisher: Abiding Nowhere Press
Published: 08/26/2016
Pages: 194
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.45d
ISBN: 9780985496746

About the Author
After successful careers as a criminal defense attorney, higher education administrator and instructor, and day spa owner, Allan Ament now enjoys retirement in Freeland with his wife Deloris, an award-winning author and journalist, and a semi-neurotic cat (are there other kinds?) Ament served as board chair for the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts and is presently vice-president of the board of directors for South Whidbey at Home, a non-profit organization helping seniors stay active, engaged and in charge of their lives. His writing has previously appeared in academic, professional, and literary journals, and is included in the anthology, Being: What Makes a Man. Learning to Float is his first book-length work. In addition to being his wife's caregiver and writing (or finding ways to avoid doing so) Allan enjoys cooking (and eating, ) beach walks, scuba diving in the tropics, movies, and friends

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