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As a teenager, Danice Hope suffered worsening fatigue and depression each winter. During the summers, her health would improve, and she learned to fit as much joy into life as possible. After six years, she was finally diagnosed with seasonal affective disorder. Over time, she realized that there was also beauty in winter. She found a poster with flowers growing out of the snow that said, “In the midst of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.”

After moving south with the hope of easier winters, she began developing new health problems. The biggest surprise was that she could be sitting slumped over in a wheelchair in the emergency room, barely able to speak, and doctor after doctor told her that she wasn’t ill, or that it was “just anxiety”. After going to twenty-four different doctors in the next year, she was diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome.

Stunned at the loss of her hopes and dreams, she gradually learned to separate facts from false traditions, to balance her health, and to trust in the Savior’s ability to bring hope and renewal. She learned that flowers can grow not only in the snow, but also in the desert sun.

“Original heartfelt poems that are truly lovely… a wonderful, lyrical sense to her writing.”
– Debra Erfert, author of the Window of Time Trilogy

In the Midst of Winter: Reaching for Hope While Living with Chronic Illness is available at various online book stores. The link below leads to Amazon, Rakuten Kobo, Barnes & Noble, Apple Books, and many other book stores around the world. On the books2read page, click on the icon for the desired ebook store, then press “continue” to go to the retail store.

https://www.books2read.com/IntheMidstofWinter

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“My whole world had closed down to mere survival. Anything beyond the walls of my home was beyond me.”
– from Chapter 16

Available in Paperback at These Stores

Alibris https://www.alibris.com/In-the-Midst-of-Winter-Reaching-for-Hope-While-Living-with-Chronic-Illness-Danice-Hope/book/43387913

Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Midst-Winter-Reaching-Chronic-Illness/dp/109533350X

Better World Books https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/In-the-Midst-of-Winter–Reaching-for-Hope-While-Living-with-Chronic-Illness-9781095333501

Bookshop.org https://bookshop.org/p/books/in-the-midst-of-winter-reaching-for-hope-while-living-with-chronic-illness-danice-hope/11197131

It's twelve hours now
barely manage to press the nurse button
When she comes, I'm too weak to speak
Can't she see the pleading in my eyes?
 -from Chapter 16