Description It all began in 1958 when I was ten.
A young family had just moved into the neighborhood.
One sunny summer day while I was sitting on the steps to my house, a young boy came up to me and rolled his ball to my feet.
With the sun in my face I said hi and rolled it back.
He ran off.
A few days later he did it again.
I eventually became friends with him.
I told my mom that a Chinese family had moved into the neighborhood and their son, Charlie, was my new friend.
She said, bring him over for supper.
I did and after supper he left and my mom told me a story about people who have something called Mongoloidism, now Down Syndrome.
I became his mentor to protect him from the bullies and I got beat up more than he did.
He suddenly left and I vowed that I would do something in my life that would change that bullying attitude.
This book is about the sixty years since that time where I made good on my vows.
It is a group of chapters that comprise the ah ha moments in my journey as a caregiver all over the world.
I hope you enjoy and are enlightened by my story.
Westwood Books Publishing Llc If i die before i wake: a caregiver's journey, paperback/eli shaw
