Visiting by Polly Walker Blakemore
Visiting by Polly Walker Blakemore
Visiting by Polly Walker Blakemore is a tender and deeply human memoir about caregiving, aging, grief, and the quiet importance of simply being present for someone we love.
When Polly’s mother entered hospice while living with dementia and depression, she began documenting their time together. What she expected to be a few months became two and a half years filled with television shows, favorite foods, medications, caregivers, family memories, ordinary conversations, and the everyday realities of end-of-life care.
With warmth, humor, and honesty, Visiting captures the tedium, tenderness, frustration, absurdity, sadness, and unexpected grace that can exist side by side when caring for a parent whose health is slowly declining.
Perfect for readers drawn to memoir, mothers and daughters, caregiving, dementia, hospice, aging, grief, and family relationships, Visiting is a moving reminder that the seemingly ordinary moments we spend with someone can eventually become the ones we treasure most.
— John Rinaldo, The Positive Pen
