Description That Certain Saturday tells the true story of Madelyn S Leigh\'s struggle with her mother\'s illness from Madelyn\'s age of nine until she was sixty.
Exhaustion and insomnia took over Madelyn\'s life, but she.
The number of doctors for her care grew to nine.
With her mom\'s mental condition greatly improving, her mom\'s physical condition began to deteriorate rapidly.
In the 1990s, Madelyn inherited all of the responsibilities of her mom.
Modern medicines were prescribed for her mom after her last hospital stay and made a great difference.
Life was a complete confusion for Madelyn while she was always wishing she was simply riding a horse, her favorite pastime.
His diagnosis of cancer in the late 1980s was a huge awakening.
Her father had been the only stabilizing factor for her since young childhood.
A first marriage for Madelyn and a wonderful baby boy, three years later, still did not help to normalize her situation.
Her mother had the determination to keep trying to start over by driving again and getting involved with life.
Two years later equaled two more nervous breakdowns and three out-of-state moves due to her dad being transferred because of his job.
Psychiatric ward visits and hearing her mother be "labeled" made for a quick jump from childhood to adulthood at age nine.
Madelyn did endure it, but her life would never be the same.
The events of the morning That her mom\'s nerves came unraveled were something That no child should have to endure.
Her daughter Madelyn\'s childhood had been celebrated with the beauty of daily horseback rides which her mother enjoyed watching.
Her mother seemed to have the perfect life by being a contented housewife and very involved with her women\'s church group in the years prior to 1960.
Beginning in 1960 with a pill which was proclaimed by doctors to be a miracle, Madelyn had to watch That medication prolong the pain and stigma of her loving and kind mother\'s problem rather than fix things.
Her father always being their rock.
Description That Certain Saturday tells the true story of Madelyn S Leigh\'s struggle with her mother\'s illness from Madelyn\'s age of nine until she was sixty
