Bøger af Kathy Wagner

My mom's name is Rosie, thou she is not my birth mother, she is my mother because she raised me. She taught me how to spell my name, to count to 10, and how to say my ABC's, in the song that is handed down from one generation to another in every household. You know the song, it's ingrained in your memory forever. The only time that you forgot it as a child, may have been when you were called on by your teacher to stand up in front of your class and had to recite the alphabets, which may have been your first case of stage fright, LOL.Little did you know the majority of your classmates had the same inability to recite that little song.This is the beginning of learning and retaining, as a child you were never told that one day you would forget how to tie your shoes, how to spell your name or remember to brush your teeth.I am writing this book in hopes to help someone have a better understanding of what to expect when your loved one starts to show the signs of dementia, which can turn into Alzheimer's.

The powerful story of a mother’s struggle to save her son from addiction—and the strength and hope for change that she found in her grief.When the author’s son, Tristan, began experimenting with drugs at the age of fourteen, Kathy Wagner told herself it was just a phase. But by the time he was fifteen, she had to face the gravity of Tristan’s addiction. Unable to get him treatment without his consent, she did everything else that she could to try to save her child, from sending him to China to study kung fu with Shaolin monks, to signing him up for culinary school, to paying for his drugs in an attempt to keep him safe.When Tristan finally began his recovery journey, six years later, Wagner was unexpectedly thrown onto her own recovery path. Learning from other parents of children struggling with addiction, she began, for the first time, to live for herself. But soon her oldest daughter needed help for her own addictions, and Tristan struggled with relapse, eventually dying by accidental fentanyl overdose.After Tristan’s death, Wagner struggled to find herself without him and travelled the world to be alone with her pain. But she soon realized that to truly heal, she needed to come home to her family, and herself, in all their messy wonder. Told with compassion and insight, Here With You is a story about how addiction tore a family apart and how they came back together through shared love and a deep commitment to learning a better way. Timely and honest, it will resonate with those struggling with substance abuse, their families and anyone who wants to better understand the impact of the current drug toxicity crisis.