Nearing Completion of My Next Book --- FARTHER ON

Karrie and I are faithfully being safe, hoping for an end to COVID 19.

My friends and readers, 

The new book is getting near completion.  It won't be too long, page number wise.  But it feels right at just over 125 pages.  I have written about the ensuing years since the publication of the first, I WILL GO ON.  It was a chance for me to reflect on some of the changes that have taken place, such as the DBS surgery and the tracheostomy experience.  Also, I have had an opportunity to consider how I have truly lived on longer than would have been anticipated with a parkinsonian-plus condition such as mine.  I am excited to share it with all of you and I hope to be able to encourage others who are going through similar brain diseases or experiences with a tracheostomy or feeding tube.  I feel my little book will be an inspiration to others who are not seriously ill, as well.  It is a chance to share my personal insights that occurred to me during my near death experience and what I have struggled with subsequently.  Finally, the things these difficulties have helped me to gain are priceless and worth trying to put into words.

Karrie is going through my rough draft now, helping to edit and looking with what I hope is a critical eye for ways to improve my grammar and punctuation in the document I have been writing for most of a year on my MacBook.  I want her input on the content too, as my favorite editor.  She is excellent at this task!

Well, it is time to move on for today, so I just wanted to get that out there.  The book is coming this spring or summer, and I hope that you will help me spread the word.  It will likely be on Amazon by that time. 

Thanks for all you support and interest,  Dan

Starting Book Number Two

It is time.  I have more stories to share and want to put them in a book.  Some interesting and painful things occurred in going to two physicians 10 years ago. I will write about them using fictitious names to avoid harming anyone, but rather to delineate the difficulty of being treated for a rare brain disease such  as I have. These did not include the specialists and Doctors I was diagnosed by originally or those I have today. Hard to believe the specialists I will write about were so clueless about how to respond to a patient in my situation.  These two are not from RMC or Loma Linda and I have spoken little publicly about their treatment of Karrie and I when we sought second and third opinions.

Also, much has occurred since I WILL GO ON was written and published in 2009.  I have had brain surgery with an extraordinary neurosurgeon, and a great new neurologist/movement disorder specialist at Loma Linda University.  Most importantly, to write about how early this year (2020) I nearly died in the emergency room and was saved by the quick thinking of my wife, Karrie, and wonderful doctors and medical staff at Parkview Community Hospital.  My experiences during my time in the hospital, and subsequently in the rehabilitation facility for 6 weeks,  followed by the time of adjusting to a new normal at home as Karrie and I adapted to the tracheostomy and PEG tube feeding are stories crying out to be written. 

“Farther On” is chosen grammatically speaking because “further” speaks of literal distance and “Farther” of metaphoric progress along a continuum.  Farther On is the sequel to I Will Go On: Living with a Movement Disorder, and I hope to complete and publish it early in 2021.  

More news about my writing progress to come.  Thanks for reading.  I will end with a relevant, and one of several favorite Scripture references. -- Dan

Philippians 3:13-14 "Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,  I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Jesus Christ."