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3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Devastation and CIearing the Fog Apr 12, 2008
In August of 2007 my partner of 18 years suffered a near-fatal pulmonary embolism. I personally drove Mike to the emergency room. He was barely breathing. He was ushered into the hospital's intensive care unit. I remember seeing his gurney rolled in front of me and then disappear through automatically opening and closing doors. I remember the slight whiff of ammonia, green linoleum. He was still 45 as day 2, the next day, was his 46th birthday. I knew nothing for the next 14 hours. A nurse finally called telling me he had survived the night. I could visit in the early afternoon. Only me.
On arriving, I met a doctor called the "hospitalist" who told me he had never seen a "saddle" embolism except in an autopsy. I finally arrived at Mike's side. There were intervenous lines into his groin, his arms and a breathing apparatus. He was in good humor.
Like flipping on a switch, ours was a flow of information. We had to arrange everything in our lives and with our C.P.A. firm. I'd brought along a blank legal pad and our copy of "Caring Is Not Enough". I had to handle the office immediately as there were a dozen client appointments that coming week. It was a Sunday. Later that day, alone and petrified in our office suite, I reached everybody expected during the week and explained obscurely that there'd been an illness in the family. Mike did not want clients and peers in the community to know.
We had received a copy of Terry Ann Black's booklet a year before and recognized its value in presenting it to our clients. They could take it or leave it. I'd sent copies to my 83-year old mother and 85-year old godmother. I wondered whether they'd taken it seriously and not just some cryptic comment as to their being elderly. We filled ours with information as to what keys did what, where living trusts were filed, who to call in emergency, how to open computer files.
That little book helped me come to, get objective and actualy proceed through the minutes and hours of what was the most miserable of sinking feelings.
I suggest that Nurse Terry's booklet should become an indispensible tool of estate and trust planners. I can see where banks, financial houses, wow, even mortuaries should make this little tool available to all.
Mike spent 3 days in intensive care, a week more in acute care. He was rolled out of the hospital and got in the car. Louie the Beagle was nuts with kisses. Mike went back to our office 5 days later. Three weeks later he began a daily swimming regiment of a 1000 yards each morning at 6.
We just completed our most successful season in 7 years.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Why you need this book. Mar 30, 2008
This is a remarkably helpful book to assist people in making their transitions. Many, many people pass on without telling their children where things are. Billions of dollars are lost every year, often by families who can't afford this type of loss.
This concise, easy-to-use booklet covers every thing a person needs in order to pass on everything he or she desires to leave to children, partners, and others.
Every probate attorney, every CPA, should have a stack of these sitting on the desk to hand out to clients.
This book is just something every family should have.
Can't recommend it highly enough.
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