Sues Morning Stretch: Memoir shares much about caregiving, loss

While we are all our spouse's caregiver, some of us will be challenged and called to be a full time caregiver to the ones we love. Elaine Soloway shares her experiences as her husband's caregiver and details how she did it without destroying his dignity.

Sep. 29, 2014 Chicago Sun Times Blogs

I sent a few dollars a couple months back to a kickstarter fund so Chicago author Elaine Soloway could turn her blog posts from The Rookie Caregiver and The Rookie Widow into a paperback and ebook.

Boy, am I glad I did. Now the rest of you can read her stories and benefit from Soloways wisdom and compassion.

Called Green Nails and Other Acts of Rebellion (She Writes Press, $16.95), the book begins with Soloways life as a caregiver after her beloved second husband, Tommy, is diagnosed with frontotemporal degeneration and primary progressive aphasia, conditions that rob him of his voice, reasoning and eventually his life.