I went into this for the humorous aspect. While I am not in a position where I am caring for a parent, and probably won't be soon, I found this funny. However, this feels like the "your body is changing' books that you read before puberty where you're not quite sure what to do with this information because you've never experienced it and will probably forget it until you're in that moment and it suddenly clicks that you've read about it before.

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This book was a great read to me it really helps you understand what to expect when your parents decline. I sympathize with the author because I had to watch my grandfather pass away before my eyes and help care for him in his remaining weeks. So alot of what she says in this books speaks volumes.
I also fine it very helpful now because my grandmother who is now 90 is going through some of the things her mother went through. So i found this book very helpful and uplifting because it shows there is a light at the end and it doesn't have to be all sad and dark. You need to make the most of the time you have.
I found how she dealt with with her mother actually very amazing and actually quite strong of her. Most people would havenjust stuck them in a home and left it at that or left them in a hospital to decline fast.
I love how she put her life on hold to care for her mother and no matter how stressful or difficult it may have been she stuck through the years till the end. This is what true love and dedication is. Your parents deserve this for all they give and do for us it to me is the least we can do for them.
So for this is a great story pf how to deal with coming to terms with the decline of a loved one and that it wilp be ok. Stay strong and enjoy what time you have with them because it is so limited.
I truly understand this because I myself have lost so much family due to cancer and tragedy that I wish I had that opportunity to have had the time to spend with them like she had.
So I definitely recommend this book it teaches you how to cope and how to make light of a trying tike. But it also teaches you to be thankful that you still have this time.
Definitely give this book a read and really think about what she is saying and feel the emtion.
Thank you so much again for this book. It really was so great to read.

If you approach this book as just someone's experiences with caring for an aging parent, and you've never done that before, it's clever and could provide some insight. For most of us, though, arriving in that situation is a slow slog, a gentle degradation over time of a loved one. If you are almost anywhere on the spectrum of that progression, there's nothing new here.

And since it is just a recounting of the author's experiences, there's not a lot of effort made to provide ideas or help for situations outside what happened to her. That's fine, she probably *can't* offer any help outside of what happened to her, but it makes this a (very humorous!) memoir, in which case the title implying it's more of an instruction manual is disappointing.

I found myself wanting to instruct her with more ideas and help than she was proving to me.

Having said ALL that, this is an incredibly difficult position to be in (I know: I'm in it) and I am sure that there are many people, mostly women, who need the commiseration and "it's not just me!" chit-chat friendly writing in this book. I certainly appreciated that!

So I'm torn: I don't want to say I got "nothing" out of the book - it was like having a cup of coffee with a friend in a similar but different situation. No real "help", but it was a fast read and I got the reinforcement of knowing there are so many others going through the same thing it's worth writing a book about.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing this book in exchange for an honest review.
Obviously the cover and title are the big attention grabbers for this book. I kind of thought there would be more anecdotal parts than there were. But that wasn't a big disappointed for me. The author does really bring up a lot of aspects of caring for an aging loved one that I hadn't thought too much about.
As an only child who is also disabled, caring for my aging parents scares the crap out of me. But a big takeaway from this book is to ask for help and not do all the work on your own.