Blessed Assurance
Author
Jacquie Lewis-Kemp
Publisher
Zoe Life Publishing
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Author, Jacquie Lewis-Kemp, chronicles the battles fought and the victories won growing up with juvenile diabetes, diagnosed at the age of seven. She details tips and techniques her parents and she used from childhood, through college, into marriage, childbirth and as CEO of an automotive supplier. She describes how she managed diabetic long term complications such as retinopathy and kidney failure and offers details of her kidney transplant heroically donated by her brother. If that wasn't blessing enough, eighteen months later she received a pancreas transplant, to best preserve her new kidney with the side benefit of ending daily insulin injections. Jacquie describes how she parlays her health challenges into a platform for success. Jacquie shares with her readers how she viewed the issues she faced on a day-to-day basis, as stepping stones and not stumbling blocks. She reveals how the regimen needed to control blood sugars within a tight range predisposed her to good self-dicipline and time managment skills. Both necessary for success in life. Because of of her success, despite the odds, Jacquie confidently proclaims that she has a Blessed Assurance.
Reviews
Even after much research scientists still do know exactly what causes juvenile diabetes but they do believe it could be a compromised autoimmune system, genetic, or environmental factors that are involved. Author Jacquie Lewis-Camp was diagnosed with this disease at the age of seven in 1969.
Jacquie, in her book "Blessed Assurance" chronicles her journey from that first night in the hospital to all the trials and tribulations that followed for 33 years until her pancreas transplant in 2000. She went through the whole gamut: insulin, blood sugar monitoring, emotional ups and downs, retinopathy, kidney failure, dialysis, kidney transplant, and just about everything else imaginable that comes with chronic onset of diabetes.
But, despite all the challenges Jacquie never lost her faith in God. In the Epilogue Jacquie explains "In my private devotion with God, I reflected on my two transplants and how only through God's grace could all of this miraculous healing be possible." She is a firm believer that she is a witness to "God's power and might." This is a heartwarming story of a beautiful woman. I can guarantee you will be touched in a way that you've never been before.
Reviewed on 12/14/2010 by ReviewTheBook.com Member Irene Watson
