Taking Care of my wife Rakhi with Parkinson's

Dilip Guha

• 06 januari 2015
• 9781502869678

Samenvatting:

The author has written this biography to document his experience of taking care of his wife during her illness of almost 10 years until her passing after a long battle of Parkinson’s. The intent is to share his experience with the patients, the families, and the caregivers who are in the similar situations and can be benefited from this memoir.The author migrated to USA in 1975 to get higher education. He attended City College and Columbia University in New York to receive his M.S. and PhD in Electrical Engineering before he joined AT&T Bell Laboratories at Whippany, NJ in 1977. They worked hard to establish themselves and became successful in building private business in their own profession. Dr. Rakhi Guha had an early onset of Parkinson’s at the age of 50 and died after long battle of ten (10) years from worse kind of Parkinson’s called Parkinson plus or Multiple System Atrophy (MSA). The author has written this biography to share his experience with the patients, the families, and the caregivers who are in the similar situations and can be benefited from this memoir.The author left his business to take care of his wife full time. Later, he worked as an adjunct professor at Kean University and FDU for a while, and currently works in the public sector as a research scientist.