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A collection of sketches of Mama at various significant stages in the author's life. It zeroes in on "MAMA" as she almost dies from cancer, then has Alzheimer disease, and how it affects this writer. The title, Mama The Sailor, was inspired by a photo of Mama wearing the Captain's hat as she sailed to France on the Queen Elizabeth, at a happpier time of her life. It stands as a symbol for the voyage that each lifetime on earth really is. Mama...

A diary about what happens when Dubono seeks treatment options for her daughter who exhibits symptoms of AUTISM.

New Games Doctors Play" are essays analyzing how the zeal for diagnosis is interfering with the mission to heal patients in hospitals. The doctors are co-dependants in this game they willingly play because it takes away the pressure of finding a treatment and also takes away some of the responsibility. This practice however is contrary to the medical student's pledge :First do no harm." The account that follows these essays, "Fever" documents...

a website about events in a NJ family, their births, illness, health, schooling, progresses are akk noted.

A collection of memories about Maman who had alzheimer disease and cancer. Her character is painted and the painful changes brought about by the disease have not yet undermined her giving and charming personality

Dubono describes her daughter's mental illness and treatment. After 36 years of psychiatric drugs, her "tirades" were still fresh. In addition she had gained several physical illnesses, while her cognition and functioning had declined into severe disability.. In view of the absence of any health worker in the group home to monitor severe side effects, she concludes that lack of transparency and the fact that high school graduates staff only o...

a true story about a mom who decides to help her autistic daughter live a normal life, took her out of shelter and into her own home. Parents of disabled children are passionate about their love for them and their love carries into adulhood. Soon, she discovered that her daughter, after over 30 years of psychiatric treatment, 17 of them in a group home, still displayed her original symptoms only exacerbated. She started reading Thomas Zachs an...

The author undertakes to show the humanity of an autistic young woman as a means to decrease stigma and increase awareness that current treatment physically altering components of the brain is geared to the elimination of the unwanted and constitutes genocide.

A mother discovers that all her life, when people were telling her she was funny or strange, and could not relato her mother, it was bacause she had an undiagnosed autism. The book recalls everyday events, in the life of her autistic daughter, whom she is determined to rescue from this condition. The book is unusual also for starting in the present in the form of a diary that transitions not to the future but to past events.

The insidious onset of strange fears about her future in a child lead to her demise, diagnosis of mental illness and terrible fate.

The author attempts to convey the terror of her daughter's intermittent and unpredictable vocal outbursts, similar to tantrums, as she investigate new treatments for autism and TBI. She also shares the new proto ol she starts using upon reading books such as Nutrient Power by William J. Walsh, PhD, and Rhythms of Recovery by Leslie Horn, and others.

A day by day account inspired and encouraged by Oprah and her OWN Network of what happened in the hospital when Jpshua was admitted for a "fever of unknown origin." A documentary about life in the hospital. And recommendations for all hospital audiences, and PSO(Patient Safety Organizations)on how to spot medical errors before they occur, and how to improve the morale of hospital workers so that they may be re-empowered to healing patients. Th...

This book describes how Neurofeedback can create new connections between nerve cells, quiet the mind in a healthy way and overcome thoght disorders and misperceptions whch psychotherapy cannot do because the patient will not listen or comprehend. It is folloed by a copy of her book entitled the Age of Robotism.

Transcending time and space, Hyacinth enlists the help of Sherlock Holmes to find her daughter who disappeared mysteriously at age three. Sherlock locates her on a distant planet Terrorista. She was adducted by mad scienntists sponsored by their government to study the mechanism of planet Debonnaire Neuroleptics as these interfere with communications between habitants of these planets through what is called on debonnaire hallucinations.

The author cites Governor Richard Codey Executive order #78, as a promise yet to come in the management of mental illness, and which she wished was the current effort. She describes how an exacerbated, almost morbid frustration intolerance and the inability to make herself understood especially by her mother, the one reassuring human being in anyone's life, were leaving Desiree's no choice but to express her despair and anger with violent outb...

The author laments that today's work force is not directed to use their talent and abilities to contribute to progress but instead are forced into robot-like obedience of their instructions, which do not allow creativity. This result in a deteriration of private lives as well as that of the advancement of civilization

In this diary, Dorothy takes her husband to the hospital because he has a high fever, suffers episodes of fainting and refuses food and drink. She is hoping the doctors will start treatment to lessen the fever and help him eat and regain his strength. None of this happens because the "team" is obsessed with diagnosis. Once there is a diagnosis, all they have to do is go to a computer and find the treatment all ready for them. Besides, various ...

Bella Hunt was one of the 100 children abducted by the mad scientists of Planet Terrorista under a Government grant to study the mode of action of Planet Debonnaire's neuroleptics. Ten years later with the help of Sherlock Holmes, her mom Hyacinth rescues her.

These are love letters from a wife to her dead husband, to try to hang on to him for a while and let him know in her grief how much he meant to her and how he impacted the lives of those around him positively including her own. In doing this, she pours her heart out to him, and also forges new strength to embolden her to go on with her life. A primer for recent widows and widowers or anyone in grief after losing a loved one. This recounting of...

A widow of seventy falls in love at first sight with a 60 year old man. This is their romance. It is full of poetry and thoughts about health care, and farmi