If Today Is All I Have (Florida Hospital Publishing)

There are more than 125 million Americans who suffer from chronic disease . . . but you ve never met one quite like Linda Nordyke Hambleton. If Today Is All I Have recounts the remarkable true story of Linda's life, love, sickness, blindness, death, resuscitation, heartbreak, faith, hope, and ultimate peace. Equal parts medical drama, romance, and inspirational saga, her story could be described as ER meets Touched by An Angel. At its heart, Linda's captivating account chronicles the struggle to reconcile her three dreams of experiencing life as a normal woman with the tough realities of her medical condition. Her journey is punctuated with insights that are at times humorous, painful, provocative, and life-affirming. I first learned of my disease at age six, Linda writes. Doctors gave me about twenty-five years to live. Despite multiple heart attacks, strokes, transplants, three years of blindness, and over sixty pills a day I won t give up. But medical complications tell only part of my story. Three heartfelt dreams gave me the courage to laugh, love, and live. is is my true story