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A Mother's Dance: One Step Back---Two Steps Forward, Full Circle
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Pattie's touching memoir is the heart and soul of a mother's love---from happiness to despair, and everything in-between. It will inspire you to face calamitous events and refuse to be conqurered by them.
~National Jefferson Award Winner Dave Pelzer, Auth or "A Child Called 'It'".
How does one measure the depth of a mother’s love? Pattie never thought it possible until she experienced every mother’s worst nightmare—twice. With all three kids in college and thriving, Pattie is excited about embarking on her new career as community relations manager at Barnes & Noble. That is, until she receives word that her nineteen-year-old son has been admitted to the Medical University of South Carolina and tagged “John Doe” after he suffered a traumatic brain injury. Now her sole concern is to get to Charleston, 250 miles away, before he takes his final breath.
Although Casey is given only twenty-four hours to live, Pattie clings to her faith and refuses to accept her son’s death sentence. During Casey’s long and arduous healing, Pattie takes a hard look at the past—the kid’s tender childhood memories, their challenging teenage years, the skeletons in the closet, and the circumstances that have formed her into who she has become. When tragedy strikes again, Pattie must make a choice—to remain stuck in her grief or to step into the life she’s meant to create. Moving and heart-wrenching, A Mother’s Dance, is a story about hope, perseverance, self-discovery, hard choices, and most importantly about love. . .the sad and the wondrous.
I wrote this book in hopes it would bring healing to others, Hall says. Instead I discovered that I was the one who healed.
~National Jefferson Award Winner Dave Pelzer, Auth or "A Child Called 'It'".
How does one measure the depth of a mother’s love? Pattie never thought it possible until she experienced every mother’s worst nightmare—twice. With all three kids in college and thriving, Pattie is excited about embarking on her new career as community relations manager at Barnes & Noble. That is, until she receives word that her nineteen-year-old son has been admitted to the Medical University of South Carolina and tagged “John Doe” after he suffered a traumatic brain injury. Now her sole concern is to get to Charleston, 250 miles away, before he takes his final breath.
Although Casey is given only twenty-four hours to live, Pattie clings to her faith and refuses to accept her son’s death sentence. During Casey’s long and arduous healing, Pattie takes a hard look at the past—the kid’s tender childhood memories, their challenging teenage years, the skeletons in the closet, and the circumstances that have formed her into who she has become. When tragedy strikes again, Pattie must make a choice—to remain stuck in her grief or to step into the life she’s meant to create. Moving and heart-wrenching, A Mother’s Dance, is a story about hope, perseverance, self-discovery, hard choices, and most importantly about love. . .the sad and the wondrous.
I wrote this book in hopes it would bring healing to others, Hall says. Instead I discovered that I was the one who healed.
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Pattie Welek Hall
Pattie Welek Hall is the author of a children’s book, "Believe," translated into Spanish, "Creer". She’s been published in International Brain Injury Association 10th World Congress scientific journal, “Brain Injury”, and "Chicken Soup for the Soul: Recovering from Traumatic Brain Injuries," and she hosts an Internet radio talk show, Joy Radio, from Charleston, South Carolina, where she makes her home.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Pattie has faced a parent’s worst nightmare, twice, with such grace and courage that I found myself pondering how I, a mother, could ever face the same challenge. I was hooked into her story from the first page and I couldn’t turn the pages fast enough until the end.The story opens with a phone call every mother dreads—news of her son’s traumatic brain injury from a motorcycle accident. Though the doctors tell her the probability that he will survive twenty-four hours is slim, she refuses to give up hope, weaving in her eclectic faith which ranges from Catholicism to New Age practices. It is in this emotional, spiritual journey that we see her unstoppable love, courage, resilience and hope. When tragedy strikes again with another child, she shows her remarkable faith and gives us hope that triumph over unbearable pain is possible. The story is like a love letter to her children and plays out in cinematic detail.This beautifully–written, heartfelt memoir touched me deeply on a personal level as I related my own feelings about my children. She writes, “I wrote this book in hopes it would bring healing to others, instead I discovered that I was the one who healed." Thank you Pattie for sharing both your pain and your ability to overcome and move on from it so that the rest of us can have hope for the same if the need arises. I highly recommend this memoir to any mother of teens/young adults as well as to grief support groups, medical professionals or church groups.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Journeys, if you haven’t had yours, be prepared. We all must take them! And this mother has been on one heck of a journey. It’s one that no parent should ever have to endure, not even a child. But as her son struggles to recover from a tragic accident, author, Patti Welek Hall gives her reader an extraordinary tale of a mother’s love. She leaves no stone unturned in revealing the details of it all.As an artist, the author has done a remarkable task in pouring out the development of characterization and scenes. There is so much that goes on in the history of this true to life adventure. And yes, this story unfolds from one experience to the next. Truly, it’s a story full of struggles, challenges, hope, faith, determination, courage, strength, growth, pain, grief, and an abundance of love through and through.Journeys can take one walking all over the trail . . . and this story is evidence of that walk.