House of Miracles - New England Book Festival
As a two-time winner at the New England Book Festival I was invited to participate this year as a presenter. I mulled it over, knowing that I'd have the chance to tell my story again, but I wasn't sure that I really wanted to change out of sweatpants.
Then something hit my heart. A young girl from my hometown received some tough medical news, and soon enough her Mom started posting heartbreaking updates online.
Syd and Leslie are certainly in a lot of people's prayers these days.
And it got me thinking about some of the great people I met when I was writing House of Miracles from Doctor Caty to Olivia Stockmeyer - the beautiful girl in the photo above - and I thought why not?
Let's enter House of Miracles in the festival.
I plan on telling those gathered about my brother. I plan on making them all laugh a little, but at the same time, I want to talk about the Women & Children's Hospital of Buffalo.
I have living proof of their work running around texting on his I-Phone, and at this time each year I think of how fortunate we were in one real important episode.
We were Counting on a Miracle, just as a lot of other parents do without the rest of us knowing.
My beautiful wife is a nurse now, and she dedicates herself in doing the job as many did it for us for little more than their take-home pay.
Good nurses and great doctors still need to have their stories told.
I need to still pay on my debt.
So back to Boston, I go.
With me, this time, I carry the stories of Olivia, Anthony, Trina, Barb, and Ellen...
...and Syd.
It'll be worth the trip.
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