![]() For a couple of years, he had been blind, unable to speak, unable to interact with the world around him. David was, by year fifteen of his illness, heartbreakingly reduced to a person who could chew and swallow, and nothing else. We started this plan about a year and a half ahead.īack at home, Alzheimer's disease was sinking my poor husband more and more into a shell of his former self. Get this: she remembered the comments I had made on her posts and made sure to include the places I had said I wanted to see in our itinerary. When she hatched the plan for her year in Japan, she generously offered to let me join her for a couple of week. ![]() Having traveled to Japan only on business, I often longed to see in person the fascinating places Susan posted about. They, of course, immediately adopted her, and she joined us at the next opening on the slate of regulars. ![]() At one of them, I brought her to dinner with the MIE crowd. After that, we got together every chance we had, almost always at crime writing conferences - Bouchercon and Left Coast Crime. Susan and I made an instantaneous connection. ![]()
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