I've received another Five Star review of my book, Multiple Sclerosis an Enigma. This is written by a fellow author, Philip Nork. Here's what he wrote:Sept. 19, 2012
I
just finished MultipleSclerosis, an Enigma
by Terry Crawford Palardy and am sitting at my desk in a fog. This heart-felt
memoir of a person diagnosed with MS and her battle to live a “normal” life has
me re-thinking my own life.
The
courage displayed, along with the confusion as to why, was portrayed
brilliantly. As I read it, I felt like I was sitting with the author at a table
or on a front porch, sharing a beverage, as she told me her story.
There
were times I laughed and cried while in the pages of this book. It also took me
back to the days when my grandparents were in the same situation … a different
disease, but the same situations.
The
author says, “Water doesn't try to choose a direction
... it just follows the water before it, rushing over the same rocks that were
submerged in high water and exposed in drought last year, and ten years ago,
and maybe fifty years ago. Nature is content to follow its established route.
Only when man intervenes does the direction of the water have to change,
finding and following new paths. Sometimes, the stream is strong enough to return
to its own, natural path, to the
dismay of those who had built in its original path.”
I take this to mean that nobody knows
what is in store for them in this thing we call life. We can try to change the
course of events by medicine or other things that the “professionals”
prescribe, but the best things we can do is accept what fate delivers and deal
with it in our own special way.
This book can help those diagnosed with
diseases they don’t understand by letting them know they’re not alone. But at
the same time, it can help those who are healthy by letting them into the
“secret” life others may be in.
I am so glad I read this book.
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