Slow Dancing with a Stranger

The Emmy Award–winning broadcaster shares a New York Times –bestselling, unvarnished personal account of her husband’s battle with Alzheimer’s disease. When Meryl Comer’s husband, Dr. Harvey Gralnick, chief of hematology and oncology at the National Institutes of Health, began forgetting routine things and demonstrating abrupt changes in behavior, doctors were confounded ass to what was going wrong. Diagnoses ranged from stress and depression to Lyme disease, from pernicious anemia to mad cow’s