Before the Door Closes: A Daughter's Journey with Her

Before the Door Closes: A Daughter's Journey with Her Alcoholic Father

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 adversaryâ€”nursing home neglect and abuseâ€”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 loveâ€™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
Country USA
Brand Authorhouse
Manufacturer WestBowPress
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber black & white illustrations
ReleaseDate 2013-10-23
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781490808949

Country	USA
Brand	Authorhouse
Manufacturer	WestBowPress
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	black & white illustrations
ReleaseDate	2013-10-23
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781490808949

Before the Door Closes: A Daughter's Journey with Her Alcoholic Father

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