| Books By
Patti: |
| Hope Through
the Eyes of Love |
|
Patti Gauvin
 Patricia
Meserve Gauvin has a background in nursing with various jobs
all enabling her to be her husband Ron’s advocate,
caregiver, rehabilitation nurse, and home healthcare
clinician during his past twenty-year triumph with brain
tumor. She wrote her husband’s autobiography and
developed a model for living through adversity for her
master’s thesis at
Antioch
,
New England
. She facilitated a brain tumor support group for
several years, culminating in leading a panel discussion for
long-term survivors at the Brain Tumor Society national
symposium. This memoir shows her unique perspective
and commitment as a wife.
Hope
through the Eyes of Love is a stirring memoir that relates a
story of struggles and triumph. In this account, Gauvin
shares how their lives, after the diagnosis and subsequent
treatment of her husband for a brain tumor, clearly have
taken a path less traveled. Yet their journey has been, and
continues to be, a journey of hope, of joy and of unyielding
commitment. Through this book, she invites readers
into their lives, taking a glimpse of their childhood
and marriage—a marriage separate from convention yet
strongly bound. She also encourages anyone to join
them as they recall the last twenty-five years, twenty of
which have been spent LIVING with a brain tumor.
Readers
will find inspiration and hope as they come and witness the
author and her husband’s challenges and discover their
triumphs as they reinvent their relationship, struggle to
redefine marriage roles and communication styles, and
reclaim intimacy after illness.
Dover
NH
, natives they now make their home in
Navarre
, FL their paradise found, enjoying gardening, walks on the
beach, watching the dolphins and finding sand dollars. |
