Surviving Lasts a Lifetime: A Parent's Journey Through Medical Trauma - Softcover

Hendren, Mrs. Astrid

9780997286007: Surviving Lasts a Lifetime: A Parent's Journey Through Medical Trauma

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0997286008 ISBN 13: 9780997286007

Publisher: Astrid Hendren, 2015

Surviving Lasts a Lifetime; A Parent’s Journey through Medical Trauma, details the journey of a young mother who survives a near death experience against all odds, after she suffers a hemorrhagic stroke. It chronicles the survival, recovery, and the difficult task of moving on, and integrating a new normal. She wrote letters as a “guide to life” for her children in case she would not live to teach them, as the trauma brought into sharp focus life’s great questions about love, family, and purpose. This book brings attention to the perspective of the patient, as well as caregivers. It highlights the notion that surviving trauma, in fact, lasts a lifetime for most of us.

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About the Author:

Astrid Hendren was born and raised in Holland and came to the US in 1984, at the age of 19, with a suitcase, $100, and speaking very little English. Her experiences pursuing and living the American Dream are chronicled in several books. Today, Astrid, and her husband, David, live in Medfield, Massachusetts, where she spends her free time gardening, writing, building things, and enjoying their four dogs: three Labrador Retrievers and a wire-haired Dachshund brought home from Holland by one of their five children.

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