EP 62 :: Caregiving in Fact and Fiction :: Annette Dashofy

Annette Dashofy is the USA Today best-selling author of the multi Agatha Award nominated Zoe Chambers mystery series about a paramedic and deputy coroner in rural Pennsylvania’s tight-knit Vance Township. Annette also helped care for her father as he battled the ravages of Alzheimer’s. Less than ten years after he passed away, her mother was diagnosed with vascular dementia, placing her once again into the role of caregiver.      “We really tried for as long as possible to keep her in her home until she started falling,” Anette explains. “She wanted to come back to her house, you know, but that wasn't an option.” “Bobbi, your book - Confessions of an Imperfect Caregiver - got me through a lot of the rough patches. Just reading it, knowing that it’s OK, it is all right to feel guilty, made me feel better,” Annette says. “In Zoe Chambers, I wanted to put my character Pete in the position of having to deal with Harry, his dad. And Harry gave me a chance to revisit the nicer memories of my dad. It was not that my dad was not a nice person, but I wanted Harry to be a character who was true to the illness and someone that my readers would want to spend an entire book with,” Anette explains. Don't forget to subscribe, download, and review to share your thoughts about the show!   To find out more about Bobbi and Mike or the inspiration behind this podcast, Rodger That, head over to rodgerthat.show.