Episode 86: Amy Bloom

Its happens to all of us. We wake up in the morning and plan. Maybe I’ll meet a friend for lunch. Maybe I’ll go to Italy in July. But life sometimes throws unexpected curves. That’s what happened to writer Amy Bloom who was happily married to her husband Brian, an architect, when she began to notice some changes. Brian couldn’t do the simplest tasks at work and he’d get lost driving to the grocery store. When Brian was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease he made a decision he never wavered from. He asked Amy to research ways he could end his life quickly and painlessly. Brian also wanted Amy to write about their experience. Her book is called “In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss.” I talk to Amy Bloom about endings and beginnings.