![]() ![]() The electronic format is fitting, since, Molly, aka the World’s Most Famous Owl, broadcasts live 24 hours a day from an oversized birdhouse in San Marcos, Calif.Ī true Internet star, Molly, her mate McGee, and their four ungainly children inhale rodents and cough up pellets for a global audience of millions. ![]() Chris Adams, who grew up in Shoreview, is using a combination of tactile and virtual painting techniques to capture the story of Molly the Barn Owl. The Internet’s most riveting reality show is about to become an e-book, and a Minnesota-raised artist is working on the illustrations. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() What led you to OI as the topic for this book? Did the idea of a wrongful birth suit come first or second? Talk about the research required for writing this novel. ![]() ![]() When faced with the reality of a fetus who will be disabled, at which point should an OB counsel termination? Should a parent have the right to make that choice? How disabled is TOO disabled? And as a parent, how far would you go to take care of someone you love? Would you alienate the rest of your family? Would you be willing to lie to your friends, to your spouse, to a court? And perhaps most difficult of all – would you admit to yourself that you might not actually be lying? Handle With Care explores the knotty tangle of medical ethics and personal morality. And the ob/gyn she’s suing isn’t just her physician – it’s her best friend. But it means that Charlotte has to get up in a court of law and say in public that she would have terminated the pregnancy if she’d known about the disability in advance – words that her husband can’t abide, that Willow will hear, and that Charlotte cannot reconcile. If she files a wrongful birth lawsuit against her ob/gyn for not telling her in advance that her child would be born severely disabled, the monetary payouts might ensure a lifetime of care for Willow. As the family struggles to make ends meet to cover Willow’s medical expenses, Charlotte thinks she has found an answer. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the advanced stages, he was unable to walk alone or control his bowels and bladder, all of which led to a protracted period of being bedbound, incontinent, and refusing to eat. Within two years, he entered the middle stages, requiring help with daily activities such as dressing, and he became paranoid and suspicious and lost his way if he left the house. He was soon unable to manage his finances or remember details of his personal history. Readers will know the outcome but continue to turn the pages as Jauhar delivers a gripping account of Prem’s steady decline through the “seven stages” of Alzheimer’s. The diagnosis was mild cognitive impairment-mental functioning “worse than expected for his age.” MCI affects about 1 in 5 elderly adults, 20% of which will progress to Alzheimer’s. In a testing session, Prem counted backward from 100 by sevens and wrote a sentence correctly but failed to spell world backward or draw a clock with the time 11:10. ![]() Prem noted that forgetting is a normal part of aging, but while waiting for a doctor’s appointment, the author asked what they ate for lunch, and he couldn’t remember. ![]() ![]() Jauhar, a cardiologist and author of Interned, Doctored, and Heart, begins with the revelation that his father, Prem, a world-class geneticist in his 70s, was forgetting more than usual. A doctor and bestselling writer chronicles his father’s battle with dementia. ![]() |