About Living with Alzheimer’s – A Spiritual Journey by Kerry ONeal:
The Forward begins with me living in Florida and receiving a call from Illinois that my Mom was found unconscious at home by her sister. After diagnosis, she had a major stroke, which later evolved into dementia and then Alzheimer’s. In the introduction, I detailed arriving in Illinois in time to be with Mom before she succumbs to the debilitating illness, and then Chapter One begins.
I researched extensively on any updated information about the disease and how to be a caregiver for a parent or loved one with the illness. It’s an emotional, spiritual journey, and after the eight chapters, I added the first story I wrote in 2014 and dedicated to Mom called Wilma. A woman with a terminal illness wants to finish her bucket list and travel back to Florida from a Chicago hospital bed to see old friends for the last time.
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Author Bio:
Born and raised in Gibson City, I move to Florida in 2004 and returned in 2021 to be closer to my daughters and grandkids.
My first two books were illustrated children’s books published by Lifevest Publishing in 2006. I wrote a short story in 2013 after my Mother succumbed to Alzheimer’s to commemorate her memory, which I completed in two days. Deciding to continue writing, I wrote another short story in one day. I finished eleven stories before publishing a book of 13 short stories, What If – An Anthology of 13 Short Stories, through Xlibris in Indiana. My Father was an author, concert pianist, artist, and dance instructor, and he always encouraged me to write until he died in 2003. Since then, I’ve written 15 books and haven’t stopped. My greatest influential authors are Micheal Crichton, Ann Rice, Stephen King, and Dean Koonce, with my favorite novel being All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque.
I was invited to the Spooky Empire Convention in 2018 and 2019, consecutively, as a guest speaker for Q&A sessions. I did several book signing tours before relocating to Illinois, where my family lives. I was interviewed by Kate Delaney in 2020 about my What If book and my latest novel, Nightmare, which has recently received three 5-star reviews from Reader’s Favorites. I published my book, Fractured Suture – Revelations of a Serial Killer, in 2023 for e-readers, soft covers, and hardback, in audiobook using a narrator from audible books. It received a 5-star review from Reader’s Favorites, as well. I was interviewed on a local FM radio station, Fox News from Rockford, IL. and CBS News out of Champaign. They are both available online for review. I’ve completed and published two more novels in late 2023 and 2024 entitled ‘Death is an Escape’ & ‘Doppelganger’, which received 5-star reviews from Reader’s Favorites. Over the last month I published a science fiction thriller called ‘Hoarder’ and a book of short stories of horror called ‘Obscure Reality’. And now I’m working on two projects entitled ‘The Best Year of My Life’ (A love story) and ‘Presence’ (ghost stories). All of my works can be purchased through my website below, including book reviews video & radio interviews and information and photos from past events.
The most important aspect of writing stories is constantly marketing your books and yourself because tens of thousands of books are published daily. I’ve written in almost every genre because my ultimate goal is to acquire as many readers as possible to enjoy reading my mind.