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This is Mike Roth on Open Forum in

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the Villages , Florida . I'm here today with

2:05

Sheila Keane . Sheila , thanks for joining

2:07

me . Thank you for having me . Sheila , you were featured

2:09

in the Daily Sun a few weeks ago and

2:11

it said that you grew up in the Caribbean

2:14

. Could you share with us some of your experiences

2:16

that you had growing up in the Caribbean

2:18

and which islands you lived on ?

2:20

Yes , I was born actually

2:22

in Spain , but my father was

2:24

an English engineer

2:27

, telecommunications engineer , and

2:29

he met my mother in Puerto Rico

2:31

. My mother was from Puerto Rico

2:33

and there were my two

2:36

sisters . Elder sisters were born when

2:39

all of us were living in Spain . We

2:42

moved to Cuba . From

2:44

Cuba . We stayed there until the revolution

2:47

. Then we moved to

2:49

Puerto Rico . In Puerto Rico we stayed

2:51

about six years . During the time in Puerto

2:53

Rico we had a lot of family time

2:56

, lots of beaches , lots of fun

2:58

. I had two near-death experiences

3:00

in Puerto Rico and they were to

3:02

shape the rest of my life and my direction

3:04

. I had many questions about those experiences

3:07

and I soon found out that I

3:09

would have to find the answers to my questions

3:11

myself , because , having been brought

3:14

up in a very strict

3:16

Catholic family , I was

3:18

told to ignore the experiences . Or

3:20

they weren't important or I had to have faith . And

3:22

that was the same answer that the nuns in

3:24

our school would give me . I knew

3:27

from that moment that I would

3:29

have to find the answers that I

3:31

wanted through my own effort . We

3:33

left Puerto Rico when I was 13

3:35

and we moved to the island of San Lucia

3:37

. We did a lot of traveling

3:40

to the Caribbean islands a lot of beaches

3:42

, a lot of boat riding , a lot

3:44

of skiing , a lot of fun .

3:47

Can you share with our audience what the near-death

3:50

experiences were ?

3:51

When I was seven years old , I was

3:53

in the beach with some friends of my

3:55

father and two of them were holding my

3:57

hands . When I went to the beach

3:59

we were swimming no-transcript

4:02

Apparently , there was a wave coming and they

4:04

let my hands . And when I saw

4:06

that all of a sudden the wave wasn't me , and

4:08

what was interesting is I saw myself

4:10

rolling in the water just watching my

4:13

little body rolling , and I was very

4:15

calm and I looked at the

4:17

little body rolling and I wasn't scared at all

4:20

. And that just went on

4:22

for a little bit until I was awakened

4:24

when they were trying to resuscitate me on

4:26

the beach . That was the first one . The

4:28

second one was when I was 12 years old

4:30

and I was at the dentist and they were

4:32

giving me something to go to sleep

4:34

and I guess I must have reacted

4:37

to it and all of a sudden I felt my

4:39

body coming out from my head . I guess

4:41

I just felt myself lifting out of

4:43

my body and I was all of a sudden

4:45

in a little train and the little train was

4:47

going towards a tunnel

4:50

and it was too small

4:52

, the tunnel was too small and

4:54

I kept thinking I'm not going to fit in that tunnel

4:56

. But then , all of a sudden I heard my grandpa

4:58

, who was dead at the time , and he just

5:01

told me she that turn back is not your time

5:03

. So I just woke

5:05

up again in the dentist's office

5:07

and it was then that it

5:10

intrigued me what those experiences

5:12

were and had I died

5:14

and what had happened and all those questions

5:17

. But my school teachers and my mom

5:19

didn't seem to have any answers

5:21

or had any interest in .

5:23

What island did that happen on ?

5:24

That happened in Puerto Rico . From

5:27

Puerto Rico we went to St Lucia

5:29

. Now , st Lucia was a very undeveloped

5:32

island . It was gorgeous . They

5:34

had no escalators , no

5:36

elevators , they only had

5:38

a very small TV station , a

5:40

little radio station , and everybody

5:43

knew everybody and the beaches were gorgeous

5:45

. And in St Lucia

5:48

my father was the manager of the telephone

5:50

company there and we went to

5:52

school in a convent . That was

5:54

a very interesting experience . School

5:56

in a convent , yeah , and it was very

5:59

interesting .

5:59

So your father was in telecommunication .

6:01

Yes , my father was in telecommunications in St

6:03

Lucia and at 15 in

6:06

the island of St Lucia I met my

6:08

future husband .

6:09

My husband . How old were you when that happened ?

6:11

I was 15 and I

6:13

met him . We got married when I was 18 and

6:16

we had three children , three boys

6:18

. Now our life my life

6:20

and my married life was a very privileged

6:23

life . We had a

6:25

lot of businesses to run and it

6:27

was a beautiful life in many ways . During

6:29

that time I also learned how

6:31

to meditate , and I learned

6:33

to meditate simply because I was curious

6:35

, but it turned out that those years

6:38

of meditation really helped me

6:40

in many ways . One , my

6:42

husband was abusive , and so

6:44

it helped me deal with everything

6:47

that comes with having to deal with an abusive husband

6:49

. And secondly , it

6:51

helped keep my desire for

6:53

spiritual growth alive . So I did

6:56

a lot of research , trying to find answers

6:58

to the same questions I had from when I was a little

7:00

girl , and that continued for about 10 years

7:02

. And then one day , when I was running

7:04

one of our businesses , I found myself at

7:06

the house the kids were being raised

7:09

by their grandmother because we were so

7:11

busy , and I remember thinking I

7:14

need to do something different . I

7:16

had found out that there was a school in

7:19

Iowa that taught meditation

7:21

to the children as part of their

7:24

curriculum , and I had

7:26

found that meditation had helped

7:28

me so much inwardly that I wanted

7:30

the same thing for the kids . And so

7:32

I decided that , despite

7:34

our good life in many ways in

7:36

Saint Lucia and a very comfortable life in

7:38

Saint Lucia , that I wanted to take

7:40

the kids to experience something more

7:43

. And so , with not my husband's

7:45

permission he didn't want us to go , but

7:47

with $5,000 and three kids

7:49

in tow , I moved to Fairfield

7:51

, Iowa .

7:52

Oh , it sounds like he didn't move with you .

7:54

No , I left him behind . Two months later , we

7:56

got divorced .

7:57

Okay , that sounds like that was probably a good

7:59

thing for you .

8:00

In Fairfield Iowa . It was a very

8:02

Within a year I had started my own business

8:05

.

8:05

What business was that ?

8:06

I did policies and procedure manuals for nursing

8:08

homes and I analyzed the procedures

8:11

and then documented

8:13

them and customized them . In Iowa also

8:15

, after a few years of being

8:18

there , I came across a book that also

8:20

really helped me a lot , and that was a

8:22

book called the Yirancha book .

8:24

Oh , the name of the book , again the .

8:26

and for those of you who haven't heard , it's supposed to

8:28

be an epic whole event from God

8:30

that clarifies an expanse

8:33

of a current belief system . And when I read

8:35

that at first I was really excited . But

8:37

then I put it away for six years and I

8:39

continued my research . During the time

8:41

that I was in Iowa

8:44

, I also became a deaconess of

8:46

the Liberal Catholic Church and

8:48

whilst I was studying there , whilst

8:50

I was practicing there , I was also teaching

8:53

classes on Buddhism , on how to take care

8:55

of people who are dying . Once I was there

8:57

, I began to have a source of writing a book and

9:00

everybody wanted me to write about

9:02

life after death . But I

9:05

kept thinking what am I supposed to

9:07

write that hasn't been written ? So at

9:09

the time when I kept having that recurrence

9:11

thought , I began to have an inner

9:13

talk with my inner spirit and

9:16

I asked and I said you know , if I'm supposed to write

9:18

a book , I need the name and I need a sign

9:20

. And I said and I want that sign to be

9:22

that one of my kids talked to me about life

9:24

after death , because that's what I thought I was going to write

9:27

about , so about , and I forgot

9:29

about that about two weeks later , one of my

9:31

youngest sons coming to the house to

9:33

watch a movie with me and then halfway through

9:35

the movie somebody's dying in the movie and he

9:37

says Mom , do you believe in life after death ? So

9:39

I knew I had gotten the sign , but

9:42

I still didn't have the name . And

9:44

the name came about two weeks

9:46

later when I was in the office and I was , I

9:48

picked up a book and I said I

9:50

wonder what the name of my book is going to be . And

9:52

it said Heaven is not the last stop on my right

9:54

ear . I heard heaven is . And then I I

9:57

said what was that ? Again , heaven is not the

9:59

last stop . So I knew I had to write a book . I

10:01

had been given the sign , but I had no idea what I

10:03

was going to write about and I'd never read

10:05

them before . So for the next 10 years

10:07

I researched the book

10:09

because it came back to me with about

10:12

10 years .

10:13

Could you give that name of the book again , slowly

10:15

for our listeners the

10:18

Urancha book .

10:20

Urancha book U-R-A-N-T-I

10:23

.

10:24

Never heard of it .

10:24

T book . a big

10:27

2000 page book , and

10:29

whilst I did my research I

10:31

had lots of questions , and one of the questions

10:33

I said to my inner

10:35

self , I guess I said is

10:38

what happens after death , connected

10:40

with this particular information that

10:42

is in this book . And about six

10:44

months later I came across the Urancha

10:46

book Urantia again , after not having seen it for

10:48

six years , and so I knew I had to

10:50

write it and I knew I had to do

10:53

it . So my Heaven is Not the Last Stop

10:55

is basically a summarized

10:57

version of the Urancha book

10:59

Uranita which I hope will help readers

11:02

expand their own beliefs and then

11:04

see what they experience as a result

11:07

. Now how my husband

11:09

this was Bart . This was Bart . Yes

11:11

, how my husband got involved with Bright

11:13

in Heaven is Not the Last Stop . When I was in Iowa

11:16

, I kept trying to write it but

11:18

nothing was coming . So I

11:20

moved to Florida because

11:22

my mother had passed away and

11:24

I wanted to be with my father . So I

11:26

thought I would go there . And whilst I was there

11:29

, I was playing tennis

11:31

and I wanted to dance with some

11:33

. I wanted to do ballroom dancing and

11:35

somebody gave me Bart's name and

11:37

I called him . And how

11:39

he got involved is once we met

11:41

and I told him that I was trying to write this book

11:44

. He says I'll help you . And I

11:46

said you don't know anything about the boy , but

11:48

he was the most fantastic , the

11:51

most fantastic person in doing that

11:53

job in editing the book .

11:54

So Bart passed away from Alzheimer's

11:57

disease . How did his death motivate

12:00

you towards writing a book about

12:02

empowering caregivers for Alzheimer

12:04

patients ?

12:05

Bart and I were married for 20 years

12:08

. He got diagnosed with Alzheimer's

12:10

in 2018

12:12

. Actually , in 2017 , he

12:15

got diagnosed with Alzheimer's

12:17

. Nobody can tell you . I think they

12:19

had to take care of somebody with Alzheimer's and

12:21

experience nobody can prepare you for . It

12:23

doesn't matter how much you read it doesn't matter

12:26

how many good intention people tell

12:28

you about it . The experience in itself

12:30

is unique to you . On how you're going to do it

12:32

, deal with it . So whenever

12:36

Bart kept taking a step

12:38

worse , you

12:40

really feel it emotionally , but

12:42

you pick yourself up and you deal with it , but

12:44

you don't really realize the stress

12:46

that is in your body . So

12:48

one day I was talking to my doctor

12:51

and he said you know ? She said if you don't take care

12:53

of yourself , you're going to die before

12:55

him . And that shocked me and I looked

12:57

it up and the statistics were that

12:59

63% of caregivers

13:02

will die before the person

13:04

they're taking care of .

13:05

Wow , that's from the stress .

13:06

And that's from the stress . And when

13:09

you consider that in the United States

13:11

there's 11 million caregivers

13:14

, that's a lot of people who

13:16

are giving care to people

13:18

with Alzheimer's who are not

13:20

in a memory care unit

13:22

or home . Yes , there's a lot

13:24

of people , there's a lot of

13:26

caregivers now . So what

13:29

I decided at that point ? I

13:31

thought you know I've spent so much time

13:33

working on self development

13:35

technique on spiritual growth . So I

13:37

need to apply those principles to

13:39

my care giving so

13:41

that I can survive caregiving giving caregiving experience

13:44

. And that's what I did . So I started

13:47

. First of all , I got rid of all

13:49

the negativity around me and

13:52

I did not entertain anybody

13:54

who would , however nice

13:56

they wanted to be were giving me

13:58

advice that wasn't asked for

14:00

, and the other thing

14:02

that I did is I picked up mountain biking

14:05

and I started doing mountain

14:07

biking to release stress and

14:10

I wrote a book about it about mountain

14:12

biking , and then I thought I

14:15

started joining support groups .

14:16

Did you have any help caring for your husband

14:19

Bart ?

14:19

When I for the first , for the first

14:22

five years from 2017

14:24

to 2017 , when he got diagnosed to

14:26

2023

14:29

, I took care of him and I

14:31

took care of him alone

14:33

. I did have some help that would come for

14:36

four hours during the day , but

14:38

I was able to get my boss to give

14:40

me the time so I could work remotely

14:43

. And so I

14:45

took care of him and I only took a part time

14:47

job because I wanted to

14:49

be able to all the needs that

14:52

he had . And that was very hard

14:54

, because one of the things that

14:56

caregivers experience is a lot of isolation

14:59

, because they're protecting

15:02

the person they're taking

15:04

care of . After a while , a person

15:06

who has Alzheimer's tends to be

15:08

alienated from everybody else , because

15:10

very few people feel comfortable

15:12

talking to somebody who has dementia

15:15

, and so you get very protective

15:17

of the person .

15:18

As the caregiver . Excuse me , you get very

15:20

protective as the caregiver .

15:22

Yeah , you get very protective and , as a result

15:24

, you end up just seeing the four walls

15:26

in your house most of the time , and

15:29

so it is very

15:31

stressful . So I

15:33

decided then to join support

15:35

group online support group but what I found

15:37

was that most of the people in the support

15:40

group were focusing on how bad

15:42

everything was . They

15:44

were focusing on

15:46

the pain , on how

15:48

much out of the way they were forced

15:51

to be , on all the

15:53

different things that they had to do to take care

15:55

of somebody , and I thought

15:57

if we focus

16:00

, you can't stop what's going

16:02

on . The circumstances are there

16:04

.

16:04

Right .

16:05

But you can do something about your mindset

16:07

. You can do something about how do I view

16:10

that experience that I'm having .

16:12

So the experience that you had with

16:14

your husband in your book Empowering

16:16

Caregivers Guide to Dementia

16:18

what sets that book apart from

16:20

other books ?

16:21

There's many books about

16:24

dementia , and there

16:26

are many books also about how

16:28

to deal with burnout

16:30

. But , what sets my book apart

16:32

is that it focuses on the mindset

16:35

, on how to develop the mindset

16:37

so that you can not just survive

16:39

caring for somebody , but thrive . How

16:41

can you be able to see beyond

16:44

your life of caregiving in a way

16:46

that's positive , that's rewarding

16:48

, that you're able to see the experience

16:50

that you just went through as one more

16:52

of life's experiences . That is rewarding

16:55

and that it is beautiful

16:57

and it has helped you grow in

16:59

ways that you wouldn't have grown otherwise . So that

17:02

is the focus of my book .

17:04

Is that book available on Amazon ?

17:05

Yes , it's available on Amazon , is it ?

17:07

Available also as an audio book .

17:09

That's what I'm working on now .

17:10

Good , good . This is Mike Roth with Dr

17:12

Craig Curtis for today's Alzheimer's Tip

17:15

. Let's talk about the Omega-3

17:17

and Omega-6 , how should people get

17:19

that from their diet ?

17:21

Well , primarily you should get that through

17:23

beans and nuts and legumes

17:25

and fish . You can take

17:28

a supplement of Omega-3

17:30

, omega-6s . However , don't

17:32

overdo the supplementation

17:34

of Omega-3 . Specifically , there

17:36

was a large study published by the American

17:39

College of Cardiology a few years back that

17:41

seemed to show that people that took too

17:43

much Omega-3 might have an

17:45

increased risk of a heart arrhythmia . So

17:48

my recommendation is if

17:50

you buy Omega-3 supplements , take

17:52

it as written .

17:54

With over 20 years of experience studying brain

17:56

health , r . Curtis's goal is to educate

17:58

the village's community on how to live a longer , healthier

18:00

life . To learn more , visit his website

18:03

, craigkurtasmd . com , or call

18:05

352-500-5252

18:09

to attend a free seminar .

18:10

I think many people , me included

18:12

, would rather listen to a book when

18:15

I'm exercising or driving , as

18:17

opposed to sitting down and reading a book .

18:19

Yes , and that's why I'm working on it .

18:22

Good , good . Are you planning to write any

18:24

additional book ?

18:25

I'm writting g right now on an addendum

18:27

for my book Empower

18:29

Caregiver Sky to Dementia .

18:31

Sounds like a second edition .

18:33

It's like a second edition and it's going to

18:35

be called what I wish I knew

18:37

about end-of-life care , so

18:40

that part is going to be focusing . I

18:42

found out that the

18:44

last two weeks of my husband in fact , the

18:46

last two months of my husband were so

18:48

intense and not only dealing with him dying

18:51

but also with the bureaucracies

18:54

and the regulations and

18:56

things that maybe we can't do

18:58

anything about .

18:59

Was he in hospice care the last two months

19:01

?

19:01

Yes , he was in hospice care for

19:03

actually three or four months he was in hospice

19:05

care . But there are things , even about hospice care

19:08

, that one doesn't know , that it's important to

19:10

know .

19:11

Give our listeners an example .

19:13

Well , an example would be I was appalled

19:16

when I asked for an air

19:18

bed for my husband because they had

19:21

suggested that , not suggested

19:23

they had put him on bed , constant bed

19:25

rest , and I told

19:27

him that he was getting red spots

19:29

in the back and that he needed

19:31

to have an air bed . They told me oh

19:33

no , no , we can't give you an air bed until

19:36

he has a sore , and I

19:38

thought how ridiculous is that you have

19:40

to wait until you have a sore to

19:42

be able to get an air bed . So I ended up

19:44

getting myself one for him

19:46

. But things like that are important

19:49

to know , because it's a very expensive

19:51

caring for somebody with dementia . It's expensive

19:54

, and if you put him in a home , it's expensive

19:56

, and so it's important to know certain things

19:58

that nobody talks to you when you enter

20:00

either home or when you're caring for somebody

20:02

, and it's important to know them . So

20:04

I figured I would bring those out

20:07

every time that I experienced , and hopefully

20:09

people will be able to . Even if nothing

20:12

can be done about these things , they will

20:14

be able to be more informed when they're

20:16

in that situation .

20:17

So when your husband was originally diagnosed

20:20

with Alzheimer's , did they give you a book to

20:22

read ?

20:23

Nobody gave me a book to read . They

20:26

just told me that my best resource

20:29

was my doctor .

20:30

Okay , so now , for people

20:32

who are facing that same dilemma

20:34

that you had , they have a book that they can

20:36

read that will give them some extremely

20:38

valuable information .

20:40

That is what I'm hoping . I'm hoping that

20:42

we can reduce that statistic

20:45

by having people be

20:47

able to develop a mindset

20:49

that's positive and that they

20:51

find that they have grown

20:54

. So that's what I'm hoping my book will do . It

20:57

will reduce the statistics of 63

20:59

percent and will be able

21:01

to help them get through that experience

21:04

in a way that they will see that is rewarding

21:06

.

21:06

That's real good . That's real good . You sound

21:08

like you are a book reader yourself .

21:10

I like to read books .

21:12

I like to read books .

21:13

Yeah , I like to read books and what I can learn from

21:15

them .

21:15

So I've asked you to pick up a book show

21:17

up for yourself by Janet Philbin

21:19

and she was on the show last

21:21

week and that's a book about how

21:24

to heal yourself A very good book

21:26

, and she did a great interview that you

21:28

and my other listeners will be able to listen

21:30

to . This is all about healing yourself

21:32

from trauma which may go all

21:34

the way back to when you were a child , and

21:36

you certainly had a couple of traumas before

21:38

you were 18 years of age , which would definitely

21:41

be in there .

21:42

Yes , yes , the dealing with you

21:44

have to be willing to make the

21:46

changes . You have to be able to recognize

21:48

where you're at and you have to be willing

21:51

to make the changes . It's all about

21:53

inner work . The one thing that is

21:55

beautiful and very rare was

21:57

that my husband never forgot me

21:59

. He never forgot my name . He never

22:01

forgot me . In fact , five

22:04

days before he died , when he

22:06

was lying down , he hadn't opened his

22:08

eyes or anything . Five days before he died

22:10

, all of a sudden he told me , sheila

22:12

, I'm dying . And I told him , I

22:14

asked him why and he said I feel something

22:17

is taking over my body and when it gets

22:19

to my throat I'll die . And

22:21

then I told him , I said , bart , I'll miss

22:23

you so much and I love you . And

22:25

he says he looked at me , touched

22:28

me and said I love you so much . Thank

22:30

you for everything . For a man

22:32

who has seven stage dementia

22:35

, who hadn't spoken , he never forgot .

22:37

That's a very touching story very touching

22:39

story . This new book , or the addendum to the

22:41

first book , it's an addendum .

22:43

I think it's an important story to be told

22:45

because to me , even

22:48

though the whole year was part

22:50

, the whole of 2020 , through which was the

22:52

year that we had to end up putting him in a

22:54

home , was so difficult . The

22:56

last two months were horrendous

22:58

and it was dealing with facility

23:02

regulations and state

23:05

regulations and this and that

23:07

, and it was like I don't know things , I believe

23:09

. I personally believe that some things need to

23:11

change .

23:12

Yeah , where was that ? Was that here

23:14

in Florida ?

23:14

or it was here in .

23:15

Florida . It sounds like you were spending

23:17

most of your time with him , even though he was

23:19

in the facility .

23:20

Oh yes , I spent 12 hours a day Towards

23:22

the end . I spent 12 hours , 12 hours with

23:25

him , and sometimes I would spend the night , because

23:27

you definitely . It doesn't matter

23:29

whether you put somebody in a home . You have to

23:31

watch after them , because nobody's

23:34

going to take care of your loved ones you would

23:36

take care of .

23:37

Do you have any idea when this addendum to the book

23:39

is going to be ?

23:40

I'm hoping it'll be published by

23:42

, I would say , April . I should be finished

23:45

. April of 24? . Yes , April 24

23:47

should be finished . Yes , I started

23:49

writing it already and I'm researching

23:51

some things and I will have

23:54

it out then and hopefully by that time

23:56

we'll be working on the audibles

23:58

, so it'll be .

23:59

You'll be working on the .

24:00

So it'll be an audible book .

24:02

An audible book . Yes , that's

24:04

very good . They're even better if you can put

24:07

them in your own voice . But there are plenty

24:09

of voice over artists that'll do it , even

24:11

AIs , and when we do it with an AI

24:14

and it's a single voice book , it's very inexpensive

24:16

to do At this point in time

24:18

. I'd say $400 to do an average

24:21

size book kind of like the one you're holding

24:24

.

24:24

Oh , interesting , I will definitely

24:27

.

24:27

An AI voice or an

24:30

actor or an actress reading a book does

24:32

very well . Until the book has tables

24:34

in it , like Excel tables and

24:36

chart , those become next to impossible

24:38

to do well If you want your listeners

24:41

to understand them Okay , and do

24:43

you recommend that the writer

24:45

reads the book ?

24:46

No , Okay .

24:47

The writer is definitely emotionally involved in

24:49

the book . Some writers can't

24:51

let go with the book . Other

24:53

writers wake up and they realize

24:55

that they have a great piece of material

24:58

and they want to share it . If

25:00

it's a single voice book , easiest

25:02

way to share it is to use an AI on

25:04

it . Okay and you can turn that out relatively

25:07

rapidly . If you have a book with seven

25:09

or eight different voices in it , it gets expensive

25:11

.

25:11

I want to definitely do the

25:13

book because I am very passionate

25:15

about the care

25:18

Care for not only the

25:20

person that has the Alzheimer's but

25:22

definitely the curcuit . I want to

25:24

do that as soon as I can and I want to

25:26

make it available to people both

25:29

books to people as much as I can and

25:31

share with them those techniques

25:34

that will help people

25:36

.

25:36

And you know what the secret is of getting

25:38

the book out there .

25:39

Excuse me .

25:40

The secret of getting the book into the people's hands that

25:42

you need it to get into . What's the secret ?

25:44

The secret of getting

25:46

it into the hands . Speaking

25:48

about it Okay , speaking about it . Doing

25:50

presentations .

25:51

Doing presentations , getting yourself on

25:54

some national TV shows or national

25:56

shows or other podcasts like this , but I think

25:58

the real marketing effort will

26:00

be to go after the physicians who do the diagnosis

26:03

. Yes . Okay , the neurologists , so

26:05

that your material can be put in front

26:08

of the families of the Alzheimer's

26:10

patient .

26:11

That's a good idea , you know . Interesting enough

26:13

, I had somebody leave a review saying

26:15

that the book should be in every

26:17

doctor's office .

26:19

Well , not the book

26:21

.

26:21

That's a big problem . And that's a big problem

26:23

. The thing is , there's a lot of information about

26:26

how to care for the person , but everybody's

26:28

so different and circumstances are so different

26:30

and , ultimately , Well , the cases are different

26:32

too . Yes , and ultimately it's

26:35

the caregiver's mindset that

26:37

will determine the experience

26:40

for that caregiver and what

26:42

she'll take out of it and

26:44

how it communicates to the person that you're

26:46

taking care of .

26:47

Good . So , Sheila , do you have any last

26:49

remarks that you want to give to our audience

26:51

or ideas ?

26:52

Well , just love the person that

26:54

you're with as much as you can , be

26:56

as vulnerable as you can with whoever

26:59

that you love because you never know how long it's

27:01

going to last and always remain

27:03

positive and let go of negativity

27:06

and always channel your energy towards

27:08

something that is fruitful and long

27:10

lasting .

27:11

Good , and do you have a website ?

27:13

Yes , it's been developed . I

27:15

have one already , mainly geared towards

27:17

my philosophy , spiritual

27:20

books , but it's called e omh . h com . com

27:22

.

27:27

Shillekeene L-U-N-D is the last .

27:29

L-U-N-D at the end , sheilakeenelund . com

27:32

.

27:32

Good , and if one of our listeners

27:34

has trouble figuring that out , they can go

27:36

to the transcript of the show . Okay

27:38

, thanks a lot for being on the show today Sheila . Thank you

27:40

for having me here Good .

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