ALS is a devastating disease. If you have known anyone with this diagnosis you have seen or heard about what it does to the person. Spenser-Wendel was able to write such a beautiful memoir because she was a journalist. She is also a wife and mother. ALS doesn't attack all at once. There are little signs - most easy to ignore for a while. Eventually she seeks medical attention and is given her 'sentence'. The way she chose to live her final year is inspirational.
She takes many trips that year- sometimes with family and sometimes with the special friends in her life. All the time her physical condition is deteriorating . The most gut-wrenching one for me was when she took her 14 year-old daughter to NYC to shop for her wedding dress knowing that she would not be around when her daughter got married.
Want more inspiration? She typed out her memoir on her iPhone with her right thumb!
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