West Nile Diary: One Couple's Triumph Over a Deadly Disease

BEFORE THE MOSQUITO BITE Rick Gibson was an active pastor a supportive husband and a doting grandfather.After the bite diagnosed with West Nile neurological disease he was a hospital patient in the grip of relentless pain forced to relearn the bodys most basic tasks: how to roll over sit up stand walk and even how to think.Now in West Nile Diary his wife Kathleen recalls how the two of them battled the disease together armed with Scripture prayer love humour and loads of determination. It is a story not only of their growth as a couple but also of their entry into a whole new ministry to those facing their own health and spiritual crises.West Nile Diary will make you laugh cry and resolve never to park in a handicapped parking spot again.Entertaining deeply moving and immensely helpful. -- Phil Callaway author of Honey I Dunked the KidsAbsorbing well written and full of the spiritual resources of hope. -- Dr. Maxine Hancock Professor of Spiritual Theology Regent CollegeVivid accurate and full of detail and pathos. A good read from start to finish. -- Dickson Despommier author of West Nile StoryKathleen Gibson has written for media worldwide and is editor of Prairies North Saskatchewans magazine for good prairie living.