Mind-altering drugs shackle her father to dementia. As if it
were a holding pen for rotting trash, authorities in the nursing
home system dispensed him to that dark cell.
For the second time in their lives, Judy desperately searches
for the answer to free her father. While growing up in an alcoholic
environment, she struggled to find what drove him to drink. She was
sure if she found it she could cure her father of alcoholism and
make everyone happy.
Judy finds the liberating key to his present imprisonment, but
she cannot turn the lock until she revisits and reveals the
shameful secret carefully and faithfully guarded for decades. While
doing so, she confronts her fears and emotional wounds carved
within a dysfunctional family. That is not enough, though, to
rescue him, for the two are now ensnared by an unfamiliar adversary
nursing home neglect and abuse that Judy must battle every day for
her defenseless father.
Through it all she longs for him to believe he is and always was
important, worthy, loved. Are you a child of an alcoholic? a
caregiver of the elderly? a seeker of love s passages? This
heart-gripping story shares pain and victory.
""Before the Door Closes" is very well written and revealing of
the pains and triumphs of Judith Hall Simon's journey with an
alcoholic father. While reading this book I felt that I was reading
the journey of only one person not two. Judith reveals just how
overwhelming an alcoholic father can be and how one's identity can
be taken over by an alcoholic parent. Her book teaches and touches
at the same time. I recommend it to the millions of adult children
of alcoholics and to those who love them. Nice work "
ROBERT J. ACKERMAN, Ph.D., author of "Perfect Daughters" and a
co-founder of the National Association for Children of
Alcoholics
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