Crohn’S Crisis and Christianity

By Loretta D. Eastwood

This memoir on Crohns Crisis and Christianity is written to bring awareness to Crohns disease and my journey through it. It is also a gift to get to know God, our Heavenly Father.

This is the life of Loretta D. Eastwood and her journey or walk through Crohns.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jan 4, 2017
• ISBN: 9781524566807

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Copyright © 2016 by Loretta D. Eastwood.

Library of Congress Control Number:   2016920162

ISBN:      Hardcover      978-1-5245-6678-4

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Contents

Seeing and Meeting My Birth Mother and Father

Nieces and Nephew

Crohn’s Disease

Hospital Stays Away from My Son and My Daughter

My walk with Crohn’s Disease

My Job as a Nanny

Code of Ethics for Security Guards

My Life with My Husband—Our Marriage

Adoption of My Daughter

My Walk with Crohn’s Disease

My Inner Thoughts on Crohn’s Disease

The Church Is a Gift from God

Angels

Conquering Crohn’s

My Letters to God

A Christmas Letter

Prayer for our Nation

Top Ten Predictions for 2017 and Beyond

Crohn’s: Working Through the Pain, Push Yourself

Your Decision

At the Present Time

My purpose for writing this book is to bring awareness to Crohn’s disease. I also want people to know it is a crisis—a chronic disease—and to explain my walk and my journey through life.

This book is dedicated to my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, who walks beside me every minute of the day.

Let me introduce myself. My name is Loretta D Eastwood. I am a sixty-three-year-old white female of Puerto Rican and Italian descent. Growing up, I lived in a foster home in Valhalla, New York, with Jennie Baker, my mom, and Frank Baker, my foster father, whom I am forever grateful for. My foster parents were born in Poland and migrated to the United States, and they spoke fluent Polish to each other. Growing up, I had two foster sisters and four foster brothers.

My childhood was very good. I had a great deal of fun with my brothers and sisters. We played many games, such as baseball, kickball, and dodgeball.

I also remember playing hide-and-seek with the neighbor children and my brothers and sisters until dusk. We also played red rover, red rover; red light, green light; holding hands; and London Bridge and Ring around the Rosie. Hopscotch was in at that time; other games included jump rope, Tag You’re It, and spinning around until you were so dizzy you would fall down.