Breathe: A True Story Of Letting Go Of My Parents Gracefully For I Will See Them Again - Softcover

Bland, Anne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1441561854 ISBN 13: 9781441561855

Publisher: Xlibris, Corp., 2009

Synopsis

Healthcare professional's memoir that touches your soul with peace and joy.  Breathe starts with an amazing true story in the hospital and then unfolds into a loving family memoir about four generations. It is about honoring lives well-lived and how these lives have shaped the next generation with a focus on family values, spirituality, respecting and caring for others, giving back, and letting go. It is about celebrating all aspects of one's life with opening  up conversations in families.

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"Once you open BREATHE - you're hooked.  It is easy for me to visualize the book's success and the ultimate effect of touching people's lives..." Cheryl Thompson, PhD, RD, CNSC, Vice President for Health Promotion and Education, MD Informatics, Salt Lake City, Utah
 
"BREATHE teaches that family values and God carry us and shape us from one generation to the next... BREATHE opens the doors of communication among patients, families, and health care providers to choose end-of-life decisions directed by patient wishes..." Lucinda Lysen, RD, LD, RN, BSN, Assistant Publisher and Medical Editor, Southwest Messenger Newspapers, Chicago, Illinois
 
"BREATHE is awesome, and I'm really glad someone is bringing attention to such an important subject." Alessandro Pontes-Arruda, MD, MSc, PhD, FCCM, Head of Intensive Care and Nutrition Department, Fernandes Tavora Hospital, Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil
 
"BREATHE brought back such wonderful childhood memories with my parents." Doris Ostrow, Holocaust survivor, Los Angeles, California
 
"It was truly a blessing to read BREATHE, a poignant memoir. It was a privilege to learn about this family..."  The Rev. Sarah Nichols, Director of Pastoral Care, The Episcopal Home Communities, Pasadena, California 
 
"BREATHE may be short and easy to read but the message is powerful..." Naomi Cahill, RD, MSc, Clinical Evaluation Research Unit, Kingston General Hospital, ON. Canada
 
"BREATHE is a warm, heart touching book.  It is filled with good theology written in story and personal examples..." Rev. Terry Alexander, Newland Presbyterian Church, North Carolina
 
"Through her actions and words, Anne Bland has balanced hope with reality, cure with care and medical science with humanism..."Albert Barrocas, MD, FACS, Chief Medical Officer, South Fulton Medical Center, Atlanta, Georgia
 
"BREATHE is truly an uplifting and helpful read..."  Judith Fish, MMSc, RD, Dietitian, Asheville, North Carolina

About the Author

Anne Bland (pen name) is a healthcare professional with over 35 years in critical care in the hospital setting. In her profession, she is recognized nationally and internationally, with nearly 100 presentations and over 30 publications in nutrition support. The author's daughter edited the manuscript and provided insightful suggestions and clarity that enhanced the final publication. Breathe was written and self published within less than 5 months after her mother's death.

To add credibility to Breathe from a healthcare professional's perspective, the author has chosen to use her real name and credentials, Denise Baird Schwartz, MS, RD, FADA, CNSC. Royalty from Breathe is donated for the Millennium Development Goal #1 to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger in honor of the author's mother.

Nearly 10 years before her mother died, during the author's 5-year search for family history documentation to join the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), she located the final document. Anne Bland Atkinson Baird, the author's great-great-great grandmother, was orphaned as a child, unfortunately she did not receive her inheritance. It was not until Anne married and achieved the right to sue in a court of law, for her inheritance in the early 1800s, that proof of her family history was recorded for posterity and provided the last document to connect nine generations. The author used Anne Bland as her pen name to give her ancestor a name in literature as the author of a book. Names throughout Breathe were chosen to honor individuals and provide privacy for the actual person in the story, to respect the dignity of every human being.

About this edition

• Publisher: Xlibris, Corp.
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1441561854
• ISBN 13: 9781441561855
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 230