9" X 6." 206 pages. Tinky Weisblat shows us how to enjoy the monment and embrace the person a dementia patient is now - and also forgive ourselves for not having all the answers. Tinky's insight into her mother's perspective is remarkable. She bends, adapts, invents, compromises, validates, sacrifices, and reaches to meet Taffy exactly where she is in her dementia journey. Tinky celebrates those little victories that all caregivers experience.

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Title

Pulling Taffy: A Year with Dementia and Other Adventures.

Publisher

The Merry Lion Press, Hawley, MA

Publication Date

2013

Language

English

ISBN 10

0974274100

ISBN 13

9780974274102

Binding

Trade Paperback

Edition

First Edition

Condition

Fine

Signed

Signed and Inscibed By The Aut

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Synopsis

Writer and singer Tinky Weisblat kept a journal during the final year of her mother’s life. Jan Weisblat was 93 and suffered from dementia. “Pulling Taffy” shares journal entries, history, family photographs, and recipes that document their time together. It pays tribute to the vibrant spirit of Jan, whom her daughter called Taffy. This informal, candid memoir explores the ways in which Taffy’s view of the world changes as her Alzheimer’s disease develops … and the ways in which it remains the same. Tinky and Taffy move through frustration to joy as they learn to embrace life despite the dementia. They survive their ups and downs with the help of community, music, nature, pets, and laughter. “I began by writing about what I was losing,” writes Tinky toward the end of the book. “Somewhere along the line I started writing about what I was finding. In short, a burden was transformed into a privilege.” “Pulling Taffy” will inspire caregivers and other people going through stressful situations. And its combination of sweetness and humor will appeal to the general reading public.

About the Author

Tinky "Dakota" Weisblat is a writer and singer who lives in western Massachusetts and northern Virginia. The author of The Pudding Hollow Cookbook, she loves to explore the ways in which story, song, and food connect people.

She has a bachelor's degree from Mount Holyoke College, a master's in journalism from the University of Tennessee, and a Ph.D. in American studies from the University of Texas.

Tinky wrote Pulling Taffy to share her strategies for showing stress the door (or at least encouraging it to go out the window for a while!) and also to pay tribute to her mother.

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