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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, delivers knock-out punches. And over the past twelve years, Robert Paulson, author of Not In Kansas Anymore: A Memoir of the Farm, New York City and Life with ALS has endured them all. A formerly active patent attorney, Paulson today can only blink and nod his head slightly. Unable to speak, dependent for life on a mechanical ventilator, tracheostomy and feeding tube, he has fought back with both dogged determination and good humor.
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Uncle Bobby! I LOVE your book!! I always asked grandma (Ruth) to tell me more stories about her childhood and of course grandpa (Glenn). Since he died long before my time I have always cherished hearing about him, my mothers memories were of a hard working father, but yours were of a young man with a sense of humor. I never knew the story behind 'red' I only knew she loved that color and now I know why.
ReplyDeleteThrough the story, I noticed some eerily similarities between your mothers life and grandmas life. Their husbands dying at an early age leaving behind a housewife to provide for them. One daughters boyfriend/husband being a father figure with the young sons. And then eventually their deaths, grandma worried even before her first stroke that she would die like her mother. They were some tough women!! Did grandma get her personality from her mother?
My husbands family all lives in Pennsylvania, the next time we head east I would love to go to Kansas and see where all these fascinating stories and people came from.
I am eternally grateful for this book and the stories I always wanted to hear!