A beautifully written tribute that captures both the heartbreak of Alzheimer’s and the enduring power of love, friendship, and family. An absolute treasure.

~Cherie Kephart, award-winning author of A Few Minor Adjustments

 

From the moment we meet the two Bobs, digging foxholes together as boys in mid-WWII San Francisco, with its blackout curtains and ration books, I was engrossed in their sweet friendship. With interweaving chapters that tell the harrowing story of a father's descent into Alzheimer's, this is a tender portrait of enduring relationships. Drobnick is both a loving daughter and a brave writer, tending to her father well in both life and in the pages of this beautiful book.

~Monica  Wesolowska, author of Holding Sivan

 

What a lovely heartwarming story of two friends, Bobby and Bob, best friends for nearly 80 years, in sickness and in health. The importance of friends like Bob in the lives of persons like Bobby, suffering from dementia, cannot be underestimated.  Bob’s daughter brings the story of their friendship to life with warmth and tenderness. 

~Gayatri Devi, MD, MS, FAAN

Clinical Professor of Neurology, Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell

Director, Park Avenue Neurology

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Today, there are 5-6 million Americans who are living with Alzheimer’s disease. In Our Long Goodbye, Teri Roche Drobnick tells the story of one person, her father Bobby, from his earliest years to his death from Alzheimer’s in his late 80s. She describes his many successes and occasional failures with love and emotion. Through it all, Bobby emerges as an individual whose life was lived in the fullest, even though Alzheimer’s disease took much of it from him. The power of telling the story of one life and the benefits that come from telling that story are vivid and palpable. Alzheimer’s may end a life, but it cannot erase the memory of who the person was and is.

~Peter V. Rabins, MD, MPH

Professor Emeritus, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Co-author of The 36-Hour Day, and author of Is It Alzheimer’s?

 

Told through Teri’s tender, observant eyes, this is a story about the true meaning of devotion: the agonizing pain of watching a mind disappear, the fierce beauty of a friendship that refuses to surrender, and the heartbreaking realization that love transcends memory.

~Mona Halaby, author of In My Mother’s Footsteps: A Palestinian Refugee Returns