My friend Adele says I’ve been spending my week catching
fleas; the period that floats outside the quotation mark, the comma before the
word “and” and several –ed endings that
need to be –s. My cousin Nora has me highlighting all these corrections and she
will input them when I’ve finished. Meanwhile she and my daughter Linda have
been designing covers, one nicer than the next, to illustrate my book. My
attorney has promised she will read the book this weekend on her computer to
make sure I have not offended anyone enough to merit a lawsuit. It’s almost done!
There is much to be said about having an overriding passion to get a work accomplished, to see the realization of a dream. There is the excitement and the anticipation -I want to hold the finished book in my hand-and the enormous sadness I have each chapter I re-read. I wish I didn't have this as my first book. I wish I could have been happily writing about my grandparents successful escape from the second world war, anything but losing my dear, sweet husband to Alzheimer's disease.
Update on the home. I've taken the name of his residence out of the book, just in case I do not like the promised changes, but for now, I have signed an updated (meaning twice as expensive) services package which will provide more hands-on care. He is clean and neat whenever I arrive; he is accepting the help that is offered and he is complying with requests to take his medications. The staff really feels affection for him and he downgraded me yesterday, by saying, "You really are the best of them all."
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