Vignettes of Yvette at Vi

About the Book

This is a true story of how John felt and reacted to the decline of his wife, Yvette, into the quicksands of dementia. The story relates how he, Carmen (the companion to Yvette), and others struggled, sometimes against “wise counsel,” to prevent Yvette from sliding downhill mentally and physically. Their love for Yvette gave them the incentive and the energy to fight against the odds and to achieve some positive results. Really though, this is a love story of a husband for his wife together for sixty-nine years.

About the Author

John Gurley, now ninety-four years old, taught economics at Stanford University for thirty years. Earlier, he taught at Princeton University, and he did economics research with his wife, Yvette, at Brookings Institution in Washington, DC. During his retirement, he has written several books on astronomy and religion. He and his wife moved to a retirement home near Stanford University in 2005, where he is in independent living and she is in a memory support unit next door to the retirement home.