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A Feeling of Helplessness Ch. 65
Acceptance:Yes; Passivity:No Ch.20
Adding Structure Challenges Lack of Initiative Caused by Lewy Body. Ch.23
Am I a Helicopter Husband? Ch.2
An Emotional Roller Coaster Day Ch.72
Are we Still On the Same Team? Ch. 85
Being Lost is Not a Great Experience Ch.78
Blackcap Pie, Memory Loss and Confusion. Ch.28
Caregiver Meltdown Ch. 26
Care Partner Goals: Safety, Pleasure, Joy. Ch.58
Depression and Lewy Body. Ch.16
Ending our Book on a Positive Note.. and Starting Another. Ch.52
Every Caregiver Needs an Overload Specialist. Ch.80
Exhaustion and Relief Ch. 64
First Pat and Then Ron Join a Memory Choir Ch.15
Frustration. Ch.83
Good Days. Ch.4
Hallucinations from Outside and Inside Ch.1
Hoping for a Miracle Ch.74
How Can We Keep Pat involved in the Conversation? Ch. 70
I Think I Did OK but Not Better Than OK. Ch.68
I Wasn't Talking in My Sleep. I Was Talking in Your Sleep. Ch.35
If You Don't Laugh, You'll Cry. Ch. 24
I'm Grateful We Can Still Disagree Ch.69
I'm Scared to Travel Away from Pat Ch.19
It's a Good Thing we are Both Introverts. Ch.54
Keep On Trucking but I Won't Regret a Thing. Ch.25
Lewy Body Affects Pat's Sense of Time. Ch.46
Lewy Body Helps Pat Find a Way to Honor her Deceased Brother. Ch.86
Many Small Frustrations Ch.51
Mornings Can Be Unpredictable in our Lewy Body World. Ch.43
Mortality. Ch.13
Need for Support, The. Ch.5
Noise Ch.3
Not Driving -- A Blow to Pat's Spirit. Ch.18
Our Children Want Us to Move into the City. Ch.47
Our Two Truths are like Oil and Water Ch.48
Pat and I Go Shopping Together for the First Time in Over a Year. Ch.84
Pat and I Watch a Movie whose Main Character has Dementia. Ch. 75
Pat and Ron Confront the Corona Virus. Ch.21
Pat Asks Ron How He has been Affected by Her Lewy Body. Ch. 40
Pat Calls Me "Dad" and that Feels OK. Ch.53
Pat Develops a Serious Auto-Immune Disorder. Ch.62
Pat Forgets but then She Remembers Ch.71
Pat has a Second Syncope Episode --but Doesn't Remember It. Ch.61
Pat has Gumption Ch.63
Pat Joins a Memory Choir. Ch.36
Pat Outwits a Would-Be Seducer Ch. 88
Pat Realizes She's been Hallucinating. Ch.34
Pat Tells Us She is in Charge Ch. 81
Pat Tells us about a Major Decision She Made. Ch. 60
Pat's Younger Brother Kevin Just Died Ch.79
Physical Intimacy -- Hugs and More. Ch.9
Porch Bird Watching on the First Beautiful Spring Day of the Year. Ch.27
Questions for the New Year: 2019 and then 2020 Ch.10
Ron and Don Discuss their Roles with their Wives. Ch.90
Ron Becomes Anxious and Irritable. Ch.59
Ron Makes a Serious Mistake and then So Does Pat. Ch.37
Ron Reminds Pat of her Accomplishments. Ch.89
Short- and Long-Term Memory issues. Ch.56
"Showtime." Ch.8
Slightly Unusual Behaviors. Ch.17
Slow Motion Panic Attack. Ch.49
Some Days You Just Want to Cry. Ch.6
Some Mornings are Full of People. Ch.30
Something Bad had happened to Lakota. And Pat has a Fall. Ch. 66
Spring Colors and the Lewy Body Lifestyle. Ch. 87
Sudden Mood Changes Ch. 22
The Apocalypse Arrived and Yet it was Not Apocalyptic. Ch. 39
The Body Keeps the Score Ch.77
The Gobbler and the Slowpoke: How Lewy Body Affects our Mealtimes. Ch.76
This is MY House Ch.67
Today's Surprise: Ron Gets a Heart Stent. Ch.32
Two Exhausting Days Ch.44
Two Rons Ch.45
Waking Dreams, RBD, and Sleep Deprivation. Ch.14
We are Still a Team. Ch.12
What Comes Next? The Lewy Body Sequencing Problem. Ch.11
What Was Supposed to Bring Pride Brings Shame Instead. Ch. 38.
Who Would take Care of Pat If I Couldn't? Ch.42
Who Should I Tell I have Lewy Body? Acceptance, Embarrassment, Shame and Trust. Ch.7
Why Is It so Hard for Pat to Make Choices? Ch.82
Working Together. Ch.55