Published: Oct. 03, 2011
Words: 50,067 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9780983819813

Short description

Born with severe brain damage, my sister Annie never out grew the needs of an infant. She didn’t walk or talk. Our parents fed her, changed her clothes, and lifted her from her bed to her wheelchair and back for her entire life of 51 years. A window into my family’s life with a severely disabled member, Dancing in Heaven is a testimony to the basic intrinsic value of human life.

Extended description

Dancing in Heaven is an inspirational story about my sister Annie s life, death, and her significance in the lives of those of us who loved her and others who were touched by her.

Born with severe brain damage, Annie never outgrew the needs of an infant. She didn’t walk or talk. Our parents fed her, changed her clothes, and lifted her from her bed to her wheelchair and back for her entire life of 51 years.

This memoir provides a window into my family’ s life with a severely disabled member. But more importantly, Dancing in Heaven is a testimony to the basic intrinsic value of human life. (Read more) Dancing in Heaven is an inspirational story about my sister Annie s life, death, and her significance in the lives of those of us who loved her and others who were touched by her.

Born with severe brain damage, Annie never outgrew the needs of an infant. She didn’t walk or talk. Our parents fed her, changed her clothes, and lifted her from her bed to her wheelchair and back for her entire life of 51 years.

This memoir provides a window into my family’ s life with a severely disabled member. But more importantly, Dancing in Heaven is a testimony to the basic intrinsic value of human life.

"A story crafted in the greatest love, you cannot possibly get at the stark truth of caregiving any more than this book does," Jeffrey Hillard

"I realized that was Annie’s legacy. She was pure love. In her utter helplessness, she was still able to radiate love. And your whole family responded to that in a heroic way,"
Nancy Henry Chadwick
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Tags

memoir, faith, afterlife, disability, memoirs, caregiving, hospice care, memoir family, memoirs childhood, hospice workers, faith and hope, cerebral palsey, developmental disability

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Review by: SM Johnson on Jan. 06, 2012 :
This is a beautiful memoir and tribute to the author's sister, with a nice back and forth flow between the story's current crises and what it was like growing up with a severely disable sibling. Annie lived to be 51 years old, and stayed in the care of her parents her entire life - Dancing in Heaven is an amazing story of devotion and love. I read it in one sitting, and shed a few tears, too!

Thank you Christine M. Grote for sharing Annie with the world!
(reviewed within a month of purchase)

Review by: Margaret Radisich Sleasman on Oct. 12, 2011 : (no rating)
In this poignant memoir of her sister, the author tells of the love and devotion of her parents and the blessedness of having Annie in their family for 51 years. The family never regretted the decision to keep Annie at home and take care of her themselves; saying, "God gave her to us and we will do the best we can to care for her, she simply does not belong in an institution."

I could not put the book down and read it in one sitting; from it, I learned what is really important in life. Everyone should read this memoir, the author wrote with love, honor, and care to preserve the precious memories of Annie. She also wrote about some of the mixed emotions she had growing up so that we could see the struggles in her and her famillies lives. A very true-to-live story that you won't be able to put down.
(reviewed the day of purchase)

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