Catching Christmas - Alzheimer's 19

Catching Christmas

I have read some Christmas books for entire this year. My favorite one is Catching Christmas, published in October 2018. This is a sweet read, small book with the light and humorous conversations. I really like this book and I could not put it down.

The author of this book is Terri Blackstock, New York Times Bestselling Author. Her books have sold over seven million copies worldwide. She graduated from Louisiana University at Monroe. She is a Christian writer.

In Acknowledgments, Blackstock explained how this book inspired her. She was in the waiting room of a hospital for a doctor's appointment, a huge waiting room with with a couple hundred people in that room.

Then she saw a man with the old lady on wheelchair. He checked her in at the desk. During that time, the lady said embarrassing things very loudly and made all of them laugh.

When checked in had done, the man wheeled the lady right next to the author, and she can see that the lady had dementia.

When the man about to leave the lady, he gave a card and told the lady to call him when she'd done. The author talk to the man and he should not leave her, the man said that he just a cab driver.

Terri Blackstock, the author of Catching Christmas

So, this book was inspired by this experience. In this book, there are three characters Finn, a cab driver; Miss Callie, dementia grandmother; and Sidney, granddaughter who takes care her grandmother, Miss Callie.

Terri wrote and pictured about a person with dementia is sweet in the very light problem, seems in the early stage dementia. Emotional feelings came from a cab driver who deals with Callie with all of her forgetfulness.

Even Callie suffers with her disease and dementia, she is a nice and fun lady and always make people chuckles.

Together, they are catching Christmas.