Moving Mountains: A Story of Marriage, Faith, and Beating a Contagion

Moving Mountains: A Story of Marriage, Faith, and Beating a Contagion
ISBN-10
1649572719
ISBN-13
9781649572714
Series
Moving Mountains
Category
Fiction
Pages
124
Language
English
Published
2021-04-07
Publisher
Dorrance Publishing
Author
Sarah F. Cook

Description

Moving Mountains: A Story of Marriage, Faith, and Beating a Contagion By: Sarah F. Cook Moving Mountains is the story of a man who contracted polio in 1954, just before the Salk and Sabin vaccines became widely available. When he became ill, Jim Bentzen was twenty-five years old, a pilot in the Air Force, had been married two years, and had a one-year-old son. In a matter of hours after the diagnosis, Jim was paralyzed from the neck down, leaving him a quadriplegic in an iron lung. He should not have survived, and when he did survive the first weeks of one crisis after another, Jim and his wife Joan were told that he would have to be hospitalized for what remained of his life, because his deficits were too great for any kind of home care. Nonetheless, the Bentzens assessed their losses, conquered their fears, and set about proving everyone in the medical community wrong. The reader will have to judge whether they succeeded.

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