📣Blog Tour📣 Surviving Alzheimer's by Dayna Steele

SURVIVING ALZHEIMER'S

Dayna Steele

             

                         AMAZON 

With unfiltered observations and sometimes dark humor, author Dayna Steele chronicled her mother's journey with Alzheimer's on Facebook. This collection of Alzheimer's updates posted on the social media network includes biting humor and raw emotion as Dayna carries you from the diagnosis to the inevitable end. Also included are sections from a neurologist, Long Term Care insurance specialist, other caregivers, documents expert, elder care attorney, and an assisted living advisor. This is a journey way too many of us are going to experience in one way or another. If you have to experience Alzheimer's and chances are you will - do it like Dayna with love, wit, and wine. I would normally never read a book about Alzheimer's or click LIKE on a Facebook post about someone's declining mother. Dayna Steele sneaked past my defenses the same way that she dealt with her own misery - with humor - by making me laugh, she managed to break my heart. --Lisa Gray, Houston Chronicle Gray Matters These observations are so gripping and so graphic. --a Facebook comment This book is going to be of tremendous help to so many. --Dr. Roy Goldberg, Geriatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

1. The book chronicles your mother’s illness through your Facebook posts. Did you include every post in the book? What was the selection process like?
   My co-author Heather Rossiello kept a database of every single post and every comment – there were literally thousands of comments on some posts. We went through them all after I lost Mom and tried to keep only the posts and comments that 1) Included informative information for caregivers 2) made us laugh out loud, and, 3) made us think.
2.       After each post you include comments that your community left. Did you pick those or did you have other people help you?
   We went through every comment, sometimes two or three times, to make sure we adhered to our own guidelines above. This book wasn’t a memoir so much as a help tool for others in the future.
3.      When did you get the idea to turn your Facebook posts into a book?Literally when so many people started commenting. “I hope you put this in a book.” In fact, the first couple of pages in the book are those words of encouragement from so many followers.
4.       What are you hoping readers will get out of Surviving Alzheimer’s?
   Someone once said to me there isn’t a users’ manual on what to do or what is going to happen when you get this diagnosis. I hope this book does become the manual for what to do and how to do it for caregivers everywhere.

Dayna Steele is the creator and CEO of YourDailySuccessTip.com. She is the author of Rock to the Top: What I Learned about Success from the World's Greatest Rock Stars, the creator of the 101 Ways to Rock Your World book series, a Rock Radio Hall of Famer, and a successful entrepreneur. A professional business speaker, Dayna is also a regular contributor to Fox News Houston, consults Fortune 500 companies, and is married to author Charles Justiz. Her mom, Fran Nicholson, was her biggest fan

Website: http://www.yourdailysuccesstip.com/

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