02153cam a2200349 i 4500 625771550 TxAuBib 20170613120000.0 170411s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2017003005 9780316502627 hardback 0316502626 hardback (OCoLC)960294165 DLC DLC eng eng rda rda rda DLC rda BTCTA DLC BDX YDX OCLCO IAZ VTL JAI ZQP FM0 IUK ZLM TXAAL TxAuBib BTCTA BDX YDX OCLCO IAZ VTL JAI ZQP FM0 IUK ZLM TXAAL TxAuBib rda Saunders, Gerda, author. Memory's last breath : field notes on my dementia / Gerda Saunders. First edition. New York : Hachette Books, 2017. ©2017. xi, 272 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Telling who I am before I forget -- Quantum puff adders and fractional memories -- The grammar of the disappearing self -- This is your brain on the fritz -- Of madness and love I -- Of madness and love II -- Makeovers in extremis -- The exit that dare not say its name. Based on the "field notes" she keeps in her journal, Memory's Last Breath is Saunders' astonishing window into a life distorted by dementia. She writes about shopping trips cut short by unintentional shoplifting, car journeys derailed when she loses her bearings, and the embarrassment of forgetting what she has just said to a room of colleagues. Coping with the complications of losing short-term memory, Saunders nonetheless embarks on a personal investigation of the brain and its mysteries, examining science and literature, and immersing herself in vivid memories of her childhood in South Africa. 20170613. Saunders, Gerda Mental health. Dementia Patients Biography. Alzheimer's disease Patients Biography. Biographies. TXAAL