Focus

Ingrid Ricks

ISBN 10: 0985929421 / ISBN 13: 9780985929428

Published by Rc Strategies Group, 2012

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From the author of Hippie Boy: A Girl's Story Imagine walking into an eye doctor's office for the first time in your life expecting to walk out with a cute pair of red cat-eye frames--only to learn you suffer from an incurable degenerative eye disease and are already legally blind. In her powerful memoir FOCUS, Ingrid Ricks delves into the shock of discovering at age thirty-seven that she was in the advanced stages of Retinitis Pigmentosa, a devastating degenerative eye disease that doctors said would eventually steal her remaining eyesight. FOCUS takes readers into Ingrid's world as she faces the crippling fear of not being able to see her two young daughters grow up, of becoming a burden to her husband, of losing the career she loves, and of being robbed of the independence that defines her. Ultimately, FOCUS is about Ingrid's quest to fix her eyes that ends up fixing her life. Through an eight-year journey marked by a trip to South Africa to write about AIDS orphans, a four-day visit with a doctor who focuses on whole-body health, a relationship-changing confrontation with her husband and a life-changing lesson from her daughters, Ingrid learns to embrace the moment and see what counts in life--something no amount of vision loss can take from her.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Focus
• Publisher: Rc Strategies Group
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0985929421
• ISBN 13: 9780985929428
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

From the Author of the New York Times bestseller Hippie Boy: A Girl's Story

What would you do if you learned you were going blind?

In her gripping memoir, Ingrid takes readers into her world as she grapples with the devastating news that an incurable blinding eye disease is eating away at her vision. Terrified that she will miss out on her daughters' lives, become a burden to her husband and lose the career and independence that defines her, Ingrid, a thirty-seven-year-old journalist and mother of two, embarks on a quest to save her sight. Through her journey, she learns to focus on the Now, go after her dreams and see what really counts—something no amount of vision loss can take from her.

About the Author

Ingrid Ricks is a Seattle-based journalist, author, speaker and teen mentor who leverages the new world of digital publishing and print-on-demand to give at-risk teens a voice. Using her award-winning debut memoir Hippie Boy: A Girl's Story as a teaching guide, she recently co-launched WeAreAbsolutelyNotOkay.org, a nationally recognized mentoring/publishing program that helps teens find their voice by writing and publishing their personal stories

 

Ingrid's essays and stories have been published in Salon, Ladies' Home Journal, The Advocate and a variety of other publications. She has also shared her stories on the national NPR show, Snap Judgment and KUOW Presents, a Seattle NPR affiliate. Ingrid is the author of three books: Hippie Boy: A Girl's Story, a coming-of-age memoir, Focus, a memoir about her journey with the blinding eye disease Retinitis Pigmentosa, and A Little Book of Mormon (and Not So Mormon) Stories, a short story collection. She is currently working on Determined to See, a memoir about her yearlong quest to heal her eyesight, and is also blogging about her journey at wwwdeterminedtosee.com.