Barbara Redmond

Touching Bottom: a Story About Cancer, Death, and God's Love Barbara Redmond

Touching Bottom is the true story of the Redmond family and their victory over their two most feared enemiescancer and death. When the middle child, a thirteen-year-old son, is stricken with a spinal cord tumor, his mother fights to avoid the inevitable. Although the parents often seem trapped in a maze of hate, fear, jealousy, and pride as they journey from doctor to doctor and from hospital to hospital, remarkable individuals touch their lives to offer comfort and strengthen their faith. Every person who has stood by helplessly while a loved one suffered and died from the ravages of cancer will identify with this family. From doctors at America's most respected medical centers to cancer patients alone in their hospital rooms or surrounded by hospice nurses, Touching Bottom is bound to be a topic of conversation. It poses questions for both caregivers and patients, and gives new insight and hope as the dying son's path of light revives his grieving family.