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WHEELING - The Ohio County Public Library’s next Lunch With Books program will feature guest Paul Tedesco with "There is No Place Like (Nursing) Home."
The program will take place at noon on Tuesday, Oct. 6, at the library in downtown Wheeling.
Tedesco proudly hails from East Wheeling. One day, his mother moved into a nursing home. On another, she died there. What happened in between changed his life.
"There's No Place Like (Nursing) Home: Stories of Dementia, Dying, and Peeing on the Christmas Tree," is a book for all the Baby Boomers and Gen-Xers across the country who, likeTedescp, are getting older. So are their parents. Many already are or will end up in nursing homes. Most who do will die there. The book is a short, folksy memoir, a compendium of stories, real ones, filled with heartbreak and agony, as well as laughter and mirth. The stories are about what he saw, learned and felt, and how he learned to smile again, then and now.
In the midst of the tempest, he also found serenity for a troubled soul. So can you.