Count to Ten Fly with a Miracle eBook Sheila Mary Taylor
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Few things worse can happen to a mother than for her child to be diagnosed with cancer.
“This is an uplifting story of personal courage, astonishing achievements and the
triumph of medicine and the human spirit over an appalling illness.”
Professor Justin P. Cobb BM BCH MCH FRCS Orthopaedic Surgeon to Her Majesty the Queen
Count to Ten is the enthralling true story of miraculous pioneering surgery and Andrew’s passionate battle for survival from life-threatening teenage cancer.
The revolutionary new treatment by the dedicated team at the London Bone Tumour Clinic
and Andrew’s adventurous pursuit of his dreams are highlighted in graphic detail.
Sheila Mary Taylor’s gripping literary style makes you think you are right there experiencing it!
Powerfully written, it holds the reader spellbound from beginning to end to discover the answers. Is his leg saved? Does he live or die? Does he find love? And does he learn to fly?
It is so easy to love your children. It is so hard to hang onto hope,
especially onto their hope – the hope they need to carry on.
Count to Ten Fly with a Miracle eBook Sheila Mary Taylor
Count to Ten is a heart-breaking memoir of a mother suffering together with her eighteen year old son who has cancer, osteosarcoma. The family struggle with the agonizing pain Andrew has to endure. When a child becomes ill the stress and agony threaten the whole family. Sheila Mary Taylor relates the process of discovering her child has cancer, of probably having to have a leg amputated, the excruciating pain the young boy has to endure, the family is also torn apart by the separation -the father remains in Zambia, the mother goes to London and then Manchester to be at her son's side.I was horrified, throughout the memoir, at how much pain and suffering the boy and his family had to endure. The talented author captured my heart and soul with her clear depictions of the horrors of cancer and chemotherapy. She gave a profound account from the beginning to the end.
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Count to Ten Fly with a Miracle eBook Sheila Mary Taylor Reviews
This is a very well written book by a mother who had suddenly to deal with a most unusual cancer.The writer has produced a poignant account of her experiences with her son in his valiant struggle with cancer over an extended period.Her attention to detail must have consumed maany hours of work which when combined with beautiful prose
completes a very fine literary work.
It drew me in and And held my attention. I felt an empathy for this young man and his family. It is amazing how some people are so stoic in the face of adversity, and where they find the courage to face things never ceases to amaze me, and over so many years into the bargain. The advances in treatments I also found interesting.
You have to have hope and belief in a higher place. Their odyessy to health was a long journey but brought them close together. Thank Heaven for our health system here.
A very interesting story of a young (teenage) boy struggling with cancer and the very likely amputation of his leg--as told by his mother, interspersed with her son's journal entries. It is a story of intense suffering, a story of hope, and a story of love. It definitely arouses sympathy and amazement in the reader. One more fully appreciates what he has. And is thankful.
When your healthy, active child is diagnosed with cancer, what's your first reaction? If you're like most most people, you panic. That was Sheila Taylor's first reaction when her bright, athletic, dreams-of-being-a-pilot youngest son saw a doctor for a nagging pain in his knee and was diagnosed with osteosarcoma. He could lose his leg and he could die. What would happen to his dream of being a pilot? What lies ahead for his parents and his two older brothers? How will the family handle it, especially since the treatment is in England and his parents live in Zambia?
In her book, Sheila Taylor takes you with her and her family as her youngest sons is diagnosed, undergoes a series of chemotherapy treatments, has surgery on the infected leg, has more chemotherapy and keeps his leg and learns to walk again. But will he ever fly an airplane? Amazingly, yes.
If your child has been diagnosed with cancer, or you know someone whose child has, this is a book to recommend to them, or give to them as a gift. It's not an easy journey, and Sheila Taylor doesn't try to make it so. It's a testament to her son's never-give-up spirit, the skilled physicians who treated him, and a family who loves and fights for him.
That Sheila Mary Taylor is a hell of a writer I already knew from reading her thriller Pinpoint. But everyone with some writerly genes can understand that tackling a private drama of this magnitude is something completely different from roaming the realms of the imagination. And then turning that most difficult phase in your family's life - a medical story(!!)- into a pageturner shows the true fortitude of this author.
Every book that throws back at us the question what would I have done in that situation? serves the greater purpose because it involves us, it makes us look at our own human state, makes us wonder if we too are made of the stuff heroes are made of, vulnerable heroes, like Sheila and Andrew and the rest of their family but heroes no doubt. Heroes trust in love, cling to their dreams, persevere and believe others will come to their aid with much needed expertise. Heroes don't complain, don't blame, don't get stuck in negativity. So despite the heaviness of the material this is a positive book, and it brings a hopeful message. Even on the darkest episodes Mrs Taylor has shone her loving light. I have cried mostly for the power of that love, which lacks in many places on this earth while it is so normal and needed.
I just found one question unanswered. What happened to Andrew's pots for posterity, which his mother so arduously hurried across the streets of London? -)
A story can be so gripping that it glues you to the page but this is only possible when the quality of the writing is superb. Also is this respect Count To Ten is a polished gem.
Like others I want to thank Mrs Taylor for sharing this dark cloud in her family's history with us and for showing us how such a process can and should be approached. Truly an example to cherish and pass on. Do read Count To Ten!!!
Brilliant! I could not put this book down. I was riveted by the suspense in what is a true story of survival against all odds. I enjoyed reading about the vivid imagery of numerous locations in the UK, Menorca and Zambia that this family had as part of their lives, and that acted as different backdrops for the sequence of events in this real life drama of how a family and close knit friends endured the stress of the unknown and whether Andrew would survive, beat cancer and not lose his leg. I was super impressed how Andrew won through, and fought bravely to overcome his disability and achieve his dreams to become a pilot and have a career in the Royal Air Force and the commercial airline industry. The book is an easy read and I think could be made into a movie about survival against all odds, advances in medicine that at the time were leading edge and experimental procedures with no track record to know whether they would succeed or not.
Count to Ten is a heart-breaking memoir of a mother suffering together with her eighteen year old son who has cancer, osteosarcoma. The family struggle with the agonizing pain Andrew has to endure. When a child becomes ill the stress and agony threaten the whole family. Sheila Mary Taylor relates the process of discovering her child has cancer, of probably having to have a leg amputated, the excruciating pain the young boy has to endure, the family is also torn apart by the separation -the father remains in Zambia, the mother goes to London and then Manchester to be at her son's side.
I was horrified, throughout the memoir, at how much pain and suffering the boy and his family had to endure. The talented author captured my heart and soul with her clear depictions of the horrors of cancer and chemotherapy. She gave a profound account from the beginning to the end.
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