The Baby's Cross by C. Gale Perkins

by C. Gale Perkins, Ervin Harmon (Editor)

Overview

This is a memoir about a tuberculosis survivor by the name of Gale. C. Gale Perkins spent 12 years at the Lakeville State Sanatorium in Lakeville Massachusetts, between 1936 and 1948, with Tuberculosis of the bone, which she contracted at the age of three. Gale tells about her experiences while in the hospital during her twelve years at the sanatorium. Gale was paralyzed from the waist down, due to an operation that went bad for two of these years. This story includes many miracles that she experienced in her lifetime. These miracles have reinforced her spiritual beliefs. The real story behind Gales fall down the stairs became clear to her while she was driving along the highway. This is a true story about a young girls struggle to stay alive, it will touch the heart of the reader.
Publisher Airleaf/Bookman Publishing 2004

Product Details

BN ID:	2940012229427
Publisher:	Ervin E. Harmon
Publication date:	02/25/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	406 KB

About the Author

C. Gale Perkins was born in Boston. She spent twelve years in Lakeville State Sanatorium in Massachusetts from age three to fifteen. She is proud of being a survivor and a person with a strong faith. She has three children and several grandchildren. She worked as director of occupational therapy in a private hospital for twenty-six years. She loves people and flowers. She has performed as a professional clown for several years; and loves it. She lives in Groveland, Massachusetts in the summer and Tarpon Springs, Florida in the winter. She says she has the better of two worlds. Her late husband encouraged her to write her life story, she says, "I have kept my promise to him."