Walks on the Beach with Angie: A Father's Story of Love - Hardcover

Don Warner; Marly Cornell

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0878392742 ISBN 13: 9780878392742

Publisher: North Star Press of St. Cloud, 2008

Synopsis

Walks on the Beach with Angie: A Fathers Story of Love describes the authors relationship with his beloved daughter, Angela, who had cystic fibrosis. Don Warner and his wife, Linda, did everything they could to give their only child immeasurable love and the fullest life possible, all the while carrying out an aggressive treatment regimen to fight her fatal disease. Until she was nineteen this honor student and cheerleader with a radiant personality kept the secret of her illness from her friends and the boys she dated. Carrying out multiple daily therapies and treatments with a quiet grace, Angie did not ask for or expect special attention or sympathy. During the final eighty-six days of her life, as Angie lies in an intensive care unit on a ventilator, the Warners are surrounded by loved ones, and a supportive extended family of kindred spirits they met in the hospital Family Room. The devastating loss and overwhelming grief Don and his wife experience prompts him to search for meaning in his daughters death and ignites a powerful desire to create a lasting legacy in her honor. Walk

About this title

About the Author:

Don Warner is chief executive officer and chairman of the board of Wayzata, Minnesota-based New Era Financial Advisors, Inc., an investment advisory and financial planning firm he co-founded in 1982. He has worked closely with the Minnesota Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation for many years and is a past board member of the University of Minnesota Pediatrics Foundation. Don and his wife, Linda, live in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, with their Maltese, Torrance.

Review:

As a father who also lost a daughter to cystic fibrosis, I do not have to be reminded how terrible and sad the experience is. But Don Warner's lovely memoir about his daughter, Angela, is a story that can teach us all something about love and courage. Walks on the Beach with Angie is as unsparing in its account of how awful and painful the disease can be, as it is uplifting in describing the young woman s valiant battle. Above all, it is a magnificent tribute to Angela and to her family that cared so and suffered so. --Frank Deford, author of Alex: The Life of a Child

Walks on the Beach with Angie is a story of love, hope, anguish, perseverance, grief, searing loss, and transformation. --Richard A. Johnson, Ed.D., Ph.D.

A new part of my research has been stimulated by Don Warner s book. --From the Foreword by Warren J. Warwick, M.D.

About this edition

• Publisher: North Star Press of St. Cloud
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0878392742
• ISBN 13: 9780878392742
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256