Extreme caring

19 Jan 2017 | by Margaret Heathfield

Margaret Heathfield is moved by a powerful personal story

'Our Friend Stuart Donnan has opened his heart and his experience to us...' | Photo: Elemento Zeca / flickr CC.

Dear Beryl,’ wrote a friend to the author’s wife, ‘I hear that you have been struck down.’ Beryl had suffered a stroke. Stuart Donnan, in his new book Extreme Caring – You Have To Go On, tells the story of the sixteen years that followed, through Beryl’s subsequent illnesses and disabilities and the later additional problems of dementia until her death in 2015.

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