One Woman's Pilgrimage Through Alzheimer's To Heaven: Passing, #2

By Tana Osborn

An endearing story of an Iowa farmer who meets a beautiful yet spunky young woman in the early 1940s whom he soon marries. War separates them for a time, but their love abounds and even carries them through her life-altering bout with Alzheimer's.

 

He learns about how it affects the salvation of her soul and how the disease alters her ability to express her sweet spirit, but be reassured, it exists all the same. He learns to navigate their life according to her personality and the things she loves before her pilgrimage takes her to heaven.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Updraft Publishing
• Release date: Nov 11, 2020
• ISBN: 9780991472673

Tana Osborn

Tana is a Christian, nurse and average layperson. She stresses that she does not have any theological degrees, so the information she gathers and shares needs to be clear and direct. Books like Until Heaven Then My Friend, written after delving into God's word about pets going to heaven, is so comforting because the truths found were evident even to an average layperson, like herself. She also has written books about grief and reassurance when our loved ones have or are passing away.  They are based on her Christian insight and research as well as experience with people in the dying process in her three decades as a registered nurse,

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One Woman's Pilgrimage

Through Alzheimer's To Heaven

By Tana Osborn

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and

incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or

ARE USED FICTITIOUSLY. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental.  However, the information regarding common happenings and events including challenges of navigating Alzheimer's and the dying process is presented from a Christian perspective as well as research and experience as a long-time registered nurse, including some of that with hospice.

Copyright © 2020 by Tana Osborn

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or

used in any manner without written permission of the

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No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by an electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the author, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review. For more information, you can contact author at [e-mail].

First paperback edition  November 2020

Updraft Publishing 

ISBN:  978-0-9914726-6-6 (paperback)

ISBN-13:  978-0-9914726-7-3  (ebook)

Dedication

This book is dedicated to all those

who have had to work through

the many heart-breaking emotions

of losing a loved one to Alzheimer's.

Introduction

DEALING WITH THE DEATH of a loved one has got to be one of the hardest things we face on our current earth, but yet it is a real part of all our lives. Working as a nurse for over three decades, including hospice and as a paramedic before becoming a nurse, I've seen a fair amount of people dying; traumatic deaths, death from illness and death by terminal conditions; young, old and in between. 

There is no one size fits all in the matter of leaving this current earth. Though there may be some similarities in the details, each is as unique as the person themselves.  And the grieving that follows these life events are not cookie cutter either. Many variables can play a part in our grieving and even be different at various times in our lives.

Though this topic can be heart-wrenching at times, the short novellas in the Passing series are meant to provide encouragement for your walk with Christ while battling certain life events. 

Each book in the series delves into different ways one might leave this current earth and offers some reassuring details made clear by God's word as well as things often experienced by others throughout the process. All are put in story form, to show that we all have a story, we are all people, with concerns and triumphs.

I hope this novella brings some peace to your heart. 

Books by Tana Osborn

UNTIL HEAVEN THEN MY Friend - Life's Journey For Your Beloved Dog

Turning Grief Into Sweet Memories

Passing - One Man's Pilgrimage Through Cancer To Heaven

Passing - One Woman's Pilgrimage Through Alzheimer's To Heaven 

Passing – One Young Man's Pilgrimage Through Suicide To Heaven (Estimated availability December 2020)

Passing – A Woman's Pilgrimage Through Rebellion and Drug Overdose To Heaven (Estimated availability March 2021)

Finding Streams in the Wasteland - The Aftermath of Suicide and a Mother's Anguish (Estimated availability July 2021)

More books to come in the Passing series and related series. 

Stay tuned @ www.tanaosborn.com/book-release-updates

Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1  A HIGH SPIRITED Child

Chapter 2  Farm Life Turns More Difficult

Chapter 3  The Start Of Something

Chapter 4  The Bumbling Proposal

Chapter 5  Armistice Day Blizzard Brings Tragedy

Chapter 6  The Continuation Of The Proposal

Chapter 7  William And Betty Jo Married

Chapter 8  William Returns From War 

Chapter 9  The Tractor Tragedy

Chapter 10  Telling Her Father

Chapter 11  Her Father Visits The Site

Chapter 12  The Years Rolled Onto This

Chapter 13  The Doctor Delivers The Devastating News

Chapter 14  A Treasured Moment Amid The Worry

Chapter 15  Progressing Symptoms

Chapter 16  Concern For Safety

Chapter 17  William Changes Careers

Chapter 18  What About Heaven?

Chapter 19  Holding Onto To Good

Chapter 20  The Reassuring Embrace

Chapter 21  Getting Close To Good-bye

Chapter 22  Showing Little Improvement

Chapter 23  The Last Embrace           

Chapter 1

A High Spirited Child

MANY DESCRIBED HER as a high spirited girl. She was born in an Iowa farm town in the early 1920s. She tended the horses, cows, chickens, sheep and pigs every day  before going to school and again when she got home. She loved it! She didn't mind that it was hard sometimes or if she got a little