Irene Walker Author of "Forgiving the Man Who Forgot: Grateful Gratitude Attitude"

All Home Care Matters

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Alzheimers, Caregiver, Healthcare, Homecare, Health, Dementia, Health & Fitness, Care, Education

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🗓️ 28 January 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

All Home Care Matters and our host, Lance A. Slatton were honored to welcome Irene Walker the Author of "Forgiving the Man Who Forgot: Grateful Gratitude Attitude" as guest to the show.

About Irene Walker:

Irene Walker is a strong and resilient woman who has faced significant personal challenges. Losing her husband to early-onset dementia is an incredibly difficult experience, and yet, her ability to maintain success in her career and continue to raise her children while managing life’s complexities speaks to her inner strength.

Irene strongly believes in practicing gratitude daily. Her background in business administration and financial risk has helped her navigate the uncertainties that come with managing both her professional life and the demands of her personal circumstances. Despite her professional achievements, it's clear that her personal journey has been deeply transformative.

About "Forgiving the Man Who Forgot: Grateful Gratitude Attitude":

We left the doctor's office and my head started spinning. I couldn't remember where I had parked the car. Quite miraculously, Robert managed to navigate us to the correct floor of the parking garage. I felt that all hope had been sucked out of me. I had been struggling to cope since our last appointment with the family doctor, but receiving this final blow was brutal. I put my left hand on the side of the car, leaned over, and threw up. It was just bile. I had to push something out of me--denial, anger, angst--I didn't know. I only knew that I needed it out. I wiped my mouth, my snotty nose and my tear-stained face with jittery hands and then leaned heavily against the back of the car. I took a long, shaky breath in and out in an attempt to pull myself together.

So began the journey with her husband who is diagnosed with early onset Dementia at the age of 51. Forgiving The Man Who Forgot carries the reader along one woman's journey of love, gratitude, honesty, disappointment and courage, detailing her life before, during and after her husband's diagnosis of early onset dementia. Reading this memoir, the reader feels as though the author is sitting across from them and sharing the ups and downs of her life, over a glass of wine or cup of coffee.

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0:00.0	Welcome to All Home Care Matters, the show where we discuss all things home care with discussions on important age-related matters and topics.
0:10.1	Brought to you by Enriched Life Home Care Services, the number one rated home care provider in Michigan by Top Rated Local.
0:23.9	Hello and welcome back to all home care matters.
0:26.6	If this is your first time visiting us here at the show, we want to say thank you for taking
0:30.3	time out to be with us today.
0:32.1	We appreciate how valuable everyone's time is, and that's why we try and make each episode
0:36.2	here at all home care matters, something that will hopefully matter to you.
0:40.7	Today, we are honored to welcome Irene Walker.
0:44.1	Irene is a realtor, a mother, a former family caregiver, and the author of Forgiving the Man Who Forgot, a Grateful Gratitude Attitude.
0:58.8	Welcome, Irene. How are you good thank you so much for having me I'm doing really well thank you oh it's our pleasure I
1:04.4	first want to start you know you send us a copy of the book and I just want to say it
1:09.9	just it really I don't know maybe it was the mood I was in
1:12.4	or the mindset, but, and the inside you inscribed Lance, savor the moments.
1:17.7	And then I was looking through all the pictures you sent and we're going to dive into that
1:21.9	here in a minute.
1:22.6	You were, you know, the family caregiver for your husband.
1:26.5	And I have young children.
1:28.5	And I'm looking through all the photos of your husband with,
1:31.0	I think a lot of them were with your daughter,
1:33.6	just going off my memory.
1:35.9	And, you know, it kind of resonates.
1:38.1	Some of those pictures,
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