If Today Is All I Have (Florida Hospital Publishing) - Softcover

Linda Nordyke Hambleton; Todd Hillard; Joni Eareckson Tada

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0983988102 ISBN 13: 9780983988106

Publisher: Florida Hospital Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

There are more than 125 million Americans who suffer from chronic disease . . . but you ve never met one quite like Linda Nordyke Hambleton. If Today Is All I Have recounts the remarkable true story of Linda's life, love, sickness, blindness, death, resuscitation, heartbreak, faith, hope, and ultimate peace. Equal parts medical drama, romance, and inspirational saga, her story could be described as ER meets Touched by An Angel. At its heart, Linda's captivating account chronicles the struggle to reconcile her three dreams of experiencing life as a normal woman with the tough realities of her medical condition. Her journey is punctuated with insights that are at times humorous, painful, provocative, and life-affirming. I first learned of my disease at age six, Linda writes. Doctors gave me about twenty-five years to live. Despite multiple heart attacks, strokes, transplants, three years of blindness, and over sixty pills a day I won t give up. But medical complications tell only part of my story. Three heartfelt dreams gave me the courage to laugh, love, and live. is is my true story

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About the Author

LINDA NORDYKE HAMBLETON was diagnosed with juvenile-onset diabetes (type I diabetes mellitus) at the age of six. Doctors gave her to age twenty-five to live. With dreams, pain, laughter, and tears, she exceeded their prediction by more than twenty years. Truly a model of physical, mental, and spiritual human survival, Linda writes from the heart with honesty and experience. It is a message of hope to all individuals and their loved ones who suffer from the chronic condition called life.

Edition details

• Publisher: Florida Hospital Publishing
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0983988102
• ISBN 13: 9780983988106
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 201
• Editor: Todd Chobotar