The Family Portrait : A Struggle To Have A Family

This is a story about my struggle to have a family. I was married at 19, my husband was 20, we decided to wait to have babies. Four years into the marriage my husband became paralyzed with Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS). I'm 23 and I'm faced with the fact that I'm going to be a widow. I was told that if he survived, the best I could hope for was he would be in a wheelchair for the rest of his life. The one thing that got him through his illness was having a baby and completing, "THE FAMILY PORTRAIT."After surviving GBS what we thought would be a natural, normal experience of having a baby, was not. Everyone knows someone who has lost a baby or maybe you have lost a baby yourself. When you have a baby, the baby changes your life. When you lose your baby you lose your identity. Are you still a mom or a dad?It's a story of perseverance: "THE FAMILY PORTRAIT"

• | Author: Carol M. Johnson
• | Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• | Publication Date: Dec 05, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 314 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1729851819
• | ISBN-13: 9781729851814