New Dorp daughter pens upbeat book about mom’s ‘Wild Ride Through Dementia’
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Kathleen Bulfin, one of six children, was excited to relocate from her native Brooklyn to Bay Terrace in 1981.
She would attend St. Charles School and then St. John’s University for her bachelor’s degree, and the College of Staten Island for her graduate degree. Now a teacher at Markham Intermediate School, Kathleen lives in New Dorp.
“Growing up Irish, meant managing your expectations,” she said. “You learned if you expected the worst, then you were never disappointed. When my mother got the diagnosis of dementia, I was devastated, but I knew she could probably live a long time and crying (as my mother taught me) wasn’t going to change anything.”