Floating in the Deep End - Patti Davis

For the decade of my father’s illness, I felt as if I was floating in the deep end, tossed by waves, carried by currents, but not drowningWhen her father, the fortieth president of the United States, announced his Alzheimer’s diagnosis in an address to the American public in 1994, the world had not yet begun speaking about this cruel, mysterious disease. Yet overnight, Ronald Reagan and his immediate family became the face of Alzheimer’s, and Davis, once content to keep her family at arm’s length, quickly moved across the country to be present during “the journey that would take [him] into the
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