In Sickness and in Health: A True Story About Love, Hope, Faith and Vigilance

By Dana Fuggi Martin

You will be inspired to be vigilant and have hope that true love can conquer all.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Oct 20, 2021
• ISBN: 9781664241428

Dana Fuggi Martin

She is the survivor of a Congenital Heart Defect, who chose to live a full life and overcoming all of the limitations that were placed upon her. She found love and healing through faith and a man who loved her in spite of all her health challenges.

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Endorsement

Good afternoon Dana,

Thank you so much for sending me your story, I just finished reading it. I’m honored you chose to share it with me. It is a beautiful story that speaks to all you’ve overcome and all the incredible people that have helped support and guide you in sickness and in health. I’m so touched that my father played such a critical role in your life. He was the consummate physician, with a skill and a bedside manner all doctors should strive to achieve in their careers.

Best of luck with the next steps of publishing.

Warm regards,

Magali

Dr St John Sutton’s daughter

In Sickness

AND

In Health

A true story about love, hope,

faith and vigilance

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DANA FUGGI MARTIN

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ISBN: 978-1-6642-4141-1 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-6642-4142-8 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2021914999

WestBow Press rev. date: 09/24/2021

Contents

Dedication

Foreword

What type of girl was I?

Live for today, Pray for Tomorrow

Growing up a little sick

Finding Superman

Back to Philly

Changing of the Docs

Nothing like a Summer in Seaside...

Is this Really Happening?

It’s the End but just the Beginning…

Dedication

This book is dedicated to my Superman for finding me whole in his eyes, My Lord and Savior for thinking me worthy enough to carry this cross, My Family for supporting and loving me, My Children who God blessed me with and My Cardiologist, Dr. Martin St John Sutton, whom had he not had faith in me, this book would have never come to fruition, he will be dearly missed, until we meet again.

Foreword

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

-St. Augustine

The birth of a child is a moment of new beginnings and of joy. A moment of expectations and plans for the future. Her creation and entrance into this world is, in essence, the ultimate act of hope. Which can be shattered by the diagnosis of a congenital heart defect, threatening to take it all down in an instant. And with it, comes feelings of confusion, anger, fear, and hopelessness. And of grief- for the loss of health and a life that is not, will not, be the one that was envisioned.

Surgical and medical advances over the past several decades have altered the natural history and course of the lives of children born with heart defects such that survival