Every time I think I have it bad, I
find out I don’t have it so very bad compared to a lot of people. Take Jeannie
Gaffigan, for example. The actress/writer/producer/director is married to
award-winning comic Jim Gaffigan. Her life with her husband and their five
children was going along quite busily but wonderfully for the most part, until
she noticed she was losing the hearing in one ear. And she felt like she had a
cold she couldn’t get over. And she was suffering from a lot of bad headaches.
She put off making an appointment for herself but when she took her children in
for their checkups the family physician referred her to get some hearing tests.
From there, the chain of diagnoses that followed revealed that a tumor which
was roughly the size and shape of a pear was pressing against her brain stem!
Through everything she experiences
after that, she maintains a healthy faith and unfailing humor. I thoroughly
enjoyed learning her story and I laud her coping mechanisms and her willingness
to share so much of her personal life with the rest of us.
[If
you enjoy this, you may also wish to try Unstoppable by Nick Vujicic, Tough as They Come by Travis Mills or The Great Eight, by Scott Hamilton]
[
publisher’s official When Life Gives You Pears web page ] | [ Jeannie Gaffigan on Twitter ]
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