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I'll Be in the Car - One Woman's Story of Love, Loss and Reclaiming Life

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Moving Through Loss
A True Love Story
An uplifting testimony written to reach out to readers who have experienced terrible loss
I'LL BE IN THE CAR
Inspirational!

I'll Be in the Car - One Woman's Story of Love, Loss and Reclaiming Life
Annette Januzzi Wick
Manufacturer: Three Arch Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0977485609

Product Description

When Annette Wicks young husband dies, she is ill-prepared for the challenge of reclaiming her life. Ill Be in the Car relates her inspiring quest to become a motherand a womanagain.
Annette reveals to us her innermost doubts about her husband and herself as they wash over her, wave after wave. When Annette reflects back on her youthful romance, she confesses her need to find a calling. But instead of pursuing a promising career, Annette meets Devin and changes course from working woman to wife and mother. She recounts how, soon after their dream move to the Oregon coast, her new life is shattered when Devin is diagnosed with leukemia.
Resolute, Annette marches with Devin through the cycles of disease and remission, riding the roller coaster of hope and disappointment and, finally, resignation to the inevitable. When the crisis ends, what remains for Annette is a most daunting taskfreeing herself from grief to rediscover who she has become.
Rich in its honesty, Ill Be in the Car brings hope to those caring for a loved one through life-altering events. Annette Wick is a clear voice for all who are silently living out their losses. She frankly describes her frustration, rage and despair as the one person responsible for Devins seemingly endless care. While celebrating her blessings Annette is equally candid with her blunders, ultimately recognizing that no one can be perfect in this most imperfect of situations. Most valuable of all, Annette writes of how she keeps her sanity when reality itself seems insane.
Ill Be in the Car is not a book about death and grieving; it is a love story about life and living and finding the will to go on when you believe your reasons for living have died.

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Moving Through Loss.......2007-04-26

As a pastor I'm confronted at times with similar situations as this gripping one of Annette. Thus, immediately upon reading of her intense time with Devin I was reminded of a similar cancer encounter which will hopefully explain this review.

It started with a young man whom I had never met before asking me after a worship service if he could talk to me alone. Having said yes, after everyone else in the lobby was finished with me, I led him and a most attractive blond female companion of his to my office. We reached the office entrance and he announced to her, "I'll see you in the car."

Alone in my office he proceeded to tell me of his dilemma: most successful auto designer for one of Motown's best he had just discovered at the age of 35 that he had terminal lung cancer and the doctors had estimated he only had three to five months. I asked him: "What can I do for you?" He replied: "Help me discover if God will cure me or not!" To this my response came: "Certainly we can tackle that one, but let me add one more objective if I may to our counseling, "Whether God chooses to heal me of this cancer or not, I know I will be ok." He had been away from church and active faith life and then added many other family and emotional issues on the counseling table, including the shocking one that the blonde had been his fiance who told him when he shared the terminal diagnosis, "I can't go through with the marriage."

Amazingly, thanks be to God that was about a decade ago and a marrow transplant much the same as Devin went through. This active member in my church is now married happily and quite an inspiration to all. I share this because I was waiting and hoping for someone to bring Christ into Devin's and Annette's life but closest I heard of Him was the name of one of Devin's hospital. My pastoral heart ached and pained at this absence in this amazing chronology of loss and new recovery and movement forward in life's journey. A magnificent movie from Billy Graham videos (World Wide Pictures", called "The Ride" exhibits this perfectly from the perspective of a young boy with terminal cancer and His relationship with Jesus. Check it out, it's excellent for kids of all ages.

Certainly this energetic and talented young woman is moving forward significantly and was brave and therapeutic for many in this new written venture. The style was a bit cumbersome and awkward at times, what I would label as "a bit contrived" at times, wanting to fulfill what so many writing coaches call: painting things with word pictures. The best writing is at the end, when she seems to have written more from the heart about finding herself. I cheered when she finds herself! The pain was worth it, and this is signifcant present to the rest who venture down this path of shared suffering to cancer and other terminal illnesses, then lost and recovery of self and future life.

A True Love Story.......2006-11-04

Congratulations Annette! Your book grabbed my heart from the first page. Having went to high school with Devin, it was also gut wrenching to read of the pain and suffering. There were many times I had to put it down for a day or so until I could be emotionally prepared to continue. Extremely well written in that it exposes the raw characteristics of each character. Just what an author is supposed to do. Thank you for sharing your life through Devin with me.

An uplifting testimony written to reach out to readers who have experienced terrible loss.......2006-09-13

I'll Be In The Car: One Woman's Story Of Love, Loss, And Reclaiming Life is the true story of a wife whose young husband was diagnosed with a terminal illness. She and her infant son had to cope with her husband's cycles of disease and remission, readying themselves to confront the inevitable. Yet I'll Be In The Car is a story of hope, not despair - it is about finding love in the precious moments of life together, no matter how fleeting, and the choice to carry on and cherish the love that was had rather than the years that were lost. An uplifting testimony written to reach out to readers who have experienced terrible loss, highly recommended.

I'LL BE IN THE CAR.......2006-05-20

I think this book is one of the most touching and heartfelt books I have ever read. It deals with love and loss but also allows the reader to realize how precious life is, enjoy and treasure each moment. The author allows us to see her personal struggle with loosing one very dear and yet going on to live a full life as a mother and woman. Three cheers for Annette Wick for sharing her very personal true story with the reader.

Inspirational!.......2006-05-10

What would happen if each of us, at all times, could read the secrets of pain and suffering inside each person's heart? This book revealed those secrets and more with a remarkable story of life and death...and life again. It should be a movie!

Annette's tenacity to walk through to the other side of pain and loss is inspirational! Through her graceful writing, she brought Devin back to this life for someone who never even knew him, courageously sharing her life and love and gems of wisdom along the way.

A quote from Marcel Proust sums up the message of this book for me, "We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world."

Love & Loss: A Story About Life, Death and Rebirth

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A journey of the heart
Touching
Immediacy and Impermanence

Love & Loss: A Story About Life, Death and Rebirth
Jane Bay
Manufacturer: Clear Light Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1574160885

Book Description

"Jane Bay takes us through her personal process of overcoming the death of her Tibetan daughter that culminates in an uplifting conclusion, despite the inherently tragic circumstances that are at the heart of the story." (Deepak Chopra)

In her compelling memoir Love & Loss - A Story About Life, Death and Rebirth, Jane Bay gives us a glimpse of the invisible web of connectedness between us and its power to help heal even the deepest of wounds. In sharing the loss of her Tibetan foster daughter, Namgyal Youdon, Bay offers a rare opportunity to travel through the agonizing process of grieving and experience the power and healing of unconditional love. The story is played out in the rich fabric of the cultural history of Tibetan Buddhism inside Tibet, India and America.

Written as an "e-mail diary," Love & Loss is based on e-mails Bay sent out immediately after Namgyal died, replies she received from her dearest friends, e-mails from Namgyal's brothers (one in Tibet and one in India, before and after Namgyal's death) and e-mails that she and Namgyal exchanged during the last two years of Namgyal's life. Brief narratives interwoven throughout the e-mails complete the story.

Customer Reviews:

A journey of the heart.......2007-04-17

Love & loss grabbed not only my heart, but also my very being.
If you have ever loss someone that was an integral part of your life, this book is a must read.
Jane not only shares her journey about life, death and rebirth, but more important, she shared her heart and that of all her friends for us to understand a natural process in life.
For the first time since my brother passed, I found a way to understand not only my own feelings about grief, but more important, a way to end my mourning and begin to celebrate his life again.
Thank you Jane for opening your heart and sharing such a personal and very touching part of yours.
You have giving me a great gift called closure.

Touching.......2007-01-13

It fell short of her first book. She got to be a bit of a name-dropper I thought.

Immediacy and Impermanence.......2006-08-16

The construction of the book through emails linked by her narrative is very effective. Much of the dialog, with its timeliness and spontaneity, could not have happened without email. The breaks in the flow this created, for other people's comfort and suggestions about love, and loss, was very effective for the subject of this book. For the reader, they created good opportunities for ideas to occur, and for my thoughts to veer off into the relationships between what Jane Bay endured and described as she traveled through the love-growth and grieving journeys with her daughter, and situations that all of us have experienced - - and will again. The reader is left better-armed for the future grievings that must lie in wait.

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Inspirations of Love, Life and Loss
Kenneth Esrig
Manufacturer: AuthorHouse
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Inspirations of Love, Life and Loss demonstrates the author's vision of hope under any type of hardship. After the loss of his young wife, Esrig is faced with the challenges of raising two young children on his own. His demonstration of emotions is clear in a chapter titled "The Feeling Zone". Wrestling with day-to-day events includes the emotional conflicts we all experience. His compelling poem "The Emotional War" ties together the conflict of feelings. Mr. Esrig's career has been as a Hospital and Healthcare administrator and his wife, Jill, was a compassionate nurse. Their family has experienced first had the devastation of diseases and losses that rip into so many families. The chapter entitled "Honey we need to talk. (After the Game) and the poem of the same name places the reader face to face with the issues of receiving a positive diagnosis to cancer all the way through the struggle that follows. The need to give back to the community is a theme that is clearly demonstrated in the chapter entitled, "Days Wasted can never be replaced". Esrig, who volunteers to chair community events for the American Cancer Society as well as the local hospital, reminds the reader that it is never to late to get involved. Internationally acclaimed, this authors first book was embraced by Miramax, Borders Books and Records and articles in the Miami Herald, the Sun Sentinel and the Palm Beach Post, all hail Esrig as an author who touches his readers hearts and souls. Without espousing one religion, the chapter on prayer evokes a universal need for faith and prayer. Described as "a man with feelings" at the Miami International Book fair, Esrig offers something special for young and old alike.

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