logo
Wrong email address or username
Wrong email address or username
Incorrect verification code
FOCUS - Ingrid Ricks
FOCUS
by: (author)
4.50 5
"A strong addition to any contemporary memoir collection." -- Midwest Book Review  From the author of Hippie Boy: A Girl's Story Imagine walking into an eye doctor's office for the first time in your life expecting to walk out with a cute pair of red cat-eye frames--only to learn you suffer from... show more
"A strong addition to any contemporary memoir collection." -- Midwest Book Review  From the author of Hippie Boy: A Girl's Story Imagine walking into an eye doctor's office for the first time in your life expecting to walk out with a cute pair of red cat-eye frames--only to learn you suffer from an incurable eye disease and are already legally blind.  In her powerful memoir, Focus, Ingrid Ricks delves into the shock of discovering at age thirty-seven that she was in the advanced stages of Retinitis Pigmentosa, a devastating degenerative eye disease that doctors said would eventually steal her remaining eyesight. Gripped with the terrifying fear that she wouldn't be able to see her two young daughters grow up, would become a burden to her husband, and would lose the career and independence that defines her, Ingrid embarks on a quest to fix her eyes that ends up fixing her life.  Through an eight-year journey marked by a trip to South Africa to write about AIDS orphans, a four-day visit with a doctor who focuses on whole-body health, a relationship-changing confrontation with her husband and a life-changing lesson from her daughters, Ingrid learns to embrace the moment and see what counts in life--something no amount of vision loss can take from her.
show less
Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780985929428 (0985929421)
ASIN: 0985929421
Publisher: Rc Strategies Group
Pages no: 100
Edition language: English
Bookstores:
On shelves
Share this Book
Need help?