Life in the Balance: A Physician's Memoir of Life, Love, and Loss with Parkinson's Disease and Dementia

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Overview

At the age of 49, Dr. Thomas Graboys had reached the pinnacle of his career and was leading a charmed life. A nationally renowned Boston cardiologist popular for his attention to the hearts and souls of his patients, he had a beautiful wife, two wonderful daughters, positions on both the faculty of Harvard Medical School and the staff of Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and a thriving private practice.

Today, Graboys is battling a particularly aggressive form of Parkinson’s disease and progressive dementia, and can no longer see patients or give rounds. Despite the physical, mental, and emotional toll he battles daily, Graboys continues his life-long mission of caring for the world one human being at a time by telling his story so that others may find comfort, inspiration, or validation in their own struggles.

 

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Doctors get seriously ill just like ordinary people, and some of them never recover from the shock. If of a literary bent, they are often moved to reflect for posterity on this disruption of the natural order, detailing their former hubris and the enlightening misery of health care experienced from the other side of the bed. Against this generally lackluster collection of memoirs, Dr. Thomas Graboys's stands out as a small wonder. Unsentimental and unpretentious, it manages to hit all its marks effortlessly, creating a version of the old fable as touching, educational and inspiring as if it had never been told before.
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Graboys, a top Boston cardiologist, devoted his life to his work and his patients. He was at the top of his field and was physically and socially active. At the relatively young age of 63, Graboys now finds himself in the role of the patient and no longer able to work as a physician owing to Parkinson's disease and an associated progressive dementia. Graboys struggles with tremors, involuntary jerks of his hands and arms, sweats, and cognitive dysfunction. Navigating new places or keeping up a telephone conversation have become challenges for a man who used to make complex medical decisions. Graboys describes how his disease has affected every aspect of his life: work, family, social, physical, and appearance. He also gives an honest view of how he struggles to deal with the challenges, anger, bitterness, and guilt he feels. Enhancing his memoir are segments from family members and friends. This well-written memoir of a life shattered by Parkinson's disease will give readers, patients, and their caretakers an honest account of life with the disease. Recommended for most libraries.
—Dana Ladd Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781402753411
  • Publisher: Sterling Publishing
  • Publication date: 4/1/2008
  • Pages: 199
  • Sales rank: 600,834
  • Product dimensions: 5.70 (w) x 8.30 (h) x 1.10 (d)

Meet the Author

Thomas Graboys, M.D. is a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, President Emeritus of the Lown Cardiovascular Research Foundation in Brookline, Massachusetts, and Senior Physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.  In 1985, Dr. Graboys was part of the team of doctors who won the Nobel Peace Prize for their work with the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. Parkinson’s disease and dementia forced his premature retirement from active clinical practice in 2006.

Peter Zheutlin is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in the Boston Globe, the Christian Science Monitor, The New York Times, AARP Magazine, and dozens of other newspapers and magazines in the United States and abroad.

 

Table of Contents

Foreword     ix
Preface     xvii
My Days     1
Do They Know?     20
Love and Marriage     42
Doctors and Patient     59
My Family     86
Friends     131
A Body in Motion     145
End Game     161
A Life Beyond Illness     175
Acknowledgments     189
Index     195
About the Authors     201
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  • Posted October 21, 2008

    Read this if someone you love has Parkinson's or Lewy Body disease

    My mother-in-law gave this to me to read. My father-in-law has both Parkinson's and Lewy Body, same as Tom Graboys, and this book could have been written about his everyday life. I was able to see the pain, the joys, the coping, the frustrations. Tom's feelings of losing his personality touched me especially as I have seen my father-in-law change.

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  • Posted April 9, 2011

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    Excellent advice and insight

    A huge thank you to Dr. Grayboys and his family for saying it and saying it so well. May God bless you.

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  • Posted November 25, 2008

    All Doctors Should HAVE to read this book!

    If only all of our Doctors could be as kind, compassionate, considerate, and empathetic with their patients as Dr. Thomas Graboys is we would have a much better heatlh care system. Even faced with a terrible disease like Parkinson's and the death of his spouse he continues to teach and inspire and to take care of all those around him by writing a book that has helped so many understand what it's like to be faced with a devastating illness.

    This book is hard to put down once you beign reading it, it took just a day and half for me to finish it. For anyone touched by Parkinson's it is a valuable insight into what it is like to deal with the disease. But it also gives a real example of what every doctor should strive to be and to do for their patients.

    I highly recommend this book to everyone!

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