In the pages of He Took the Pain But Left the Memories, Gregory D. Patterson shares his plight with an illness that left him confined to a sickbed for years. There on that bed he sulked in sorrow and grief. Patterson contemplated if God had removed his hands from his life. It left him wondering if he had arrived at the end of a road. Eventually, the hope that once anchored his soul became depleted until he conjured the strength to believe the words that he had spoken to so many others.