Bøger af Barbara Celeste McCloskey

When the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939, Edward Gessler was doing business in France. Much to his horror, he couldn't return to Warsaw to protect his wife and three children. He anguished believing his family suffered a tragic fate because of their Jewish heritage. After an exhaustive search ten years later, Edward discovered his family lived in the United States with Heidi Petersen, who was their former nanny. With persistence and patience Edward rekindled relationships with his grown children and fell in love with the girl who had saved his family from the Nazis. Edward and Heidi married believing they would enjoy a long, happy life together. However, an unanticipated threat simmered as Edward's double-agent past would reappear and put their relationship into jeopardy.

Strange things had been happening for months. We went from doctor to doctor until we found a good one. He said, "Ken you have something organic going on, and I don't know what it is, but for now we'll treat the symptoms." It took another year to have a neurologist tell us, "Ken I'm afraid the news is not good. You have Multiple Sclerosis." Silence followed. Numbness went through my body. I had no clue how Ken felt. But we both knew there would be lots of changes in our life together from then on. The first step in a long line of steps was to seek the help of an MS specialist. The journey has been a long one with lots of challenges. Ken declining and my caregiving has tested the strength of our twenty year union. This book is intended to help other caregivers cope with the ups, the downs, the joys and disappointments when a progressive disease steals one spouse from another. . . for better or worse.