Summary

In Chapter 15, Dosa describes to the reader that dementia is a process of unlearning basic life skills. He indicates that dementia is difficult for doctors as well because there is no cure for the disease.

In Dosa’s quest to find information about Oscar, Dosa next talked to Joan Scheer whose husband, Larry, had died with Oscar by his side. Joan told Dosa the hardest part of Larry’s dementia was that no one told her what to expect. She did not realize that he would get progressively worse. She explained it was Larry who told her the life expectancy for an Alzheimer’s patient. He read the statistic in a book that he found on a friend’s coffee table and told her he had six years to live. Joan explained the doctors only talked to her about tangles and plaques in...