{"product_id":"love-greg-lauren-a-powerful-true-story-of-courage-hope-and-survival-9780553381894","title":"Love  Greg \u0026 Lauren: A Powerful True Story of Courage  Hope  and Survival","description":"\u003cp\u003eEarly on the morning of September 11  2001  Lauren Manning-a wife  the mother of a ten-month-old son  and a senior vice president and partner at Cantor Fitzgerald-came to work  as always  at One World Trade Center. As she stepped into the lobby  a fireball exploded from the elevator shaft  and in that split second her life was changed forever.  Lauren was burned over 82.5 percent of her body. As he watched his wife lie in a drug-induced coma in the ICU of the Burn Center at New York-Presbyterian Hospital  Greg Manning began writing a daily journal. In the form of e-mails to family  friends  and colleagues  he recorded Laurens harrowing struggle-and his own tormented efforts to make sense of an act that defies all understanding. This book is that e-mail diary: detailed  intimate  inspiring messages that end  always  as if a prayer for a happy outcome:  LOVE  GREG \u0026amp; LAUREN  We share this story day by astonishing day. Greg writes of the intricate surgeries  the painful therapies  and the constant risk of infection Lauren endured. Through his eyes we come to know the doctors  nurses  aides  and therapists who cared for her around the clock with untiring devotion and sensitivity. We also come to know the families with whom he shared wrenching hospital vigils for their own loved ones who were waging a battle that some would not win.  It was  most of all  Gregs belief that Lauren would win her brave fight for life that kept him writing. Through his eyes we see what she could not-their toddlers first steps  the video of his first birthday party  the compassionate messages of hope from around the world. And we are there as Lauren gradually emerges into awareness  signaling first with her eyes  then with smiles  her understanding of the words Greg speaks to her  the poems he recites  the songs he plays.  Most miraculously  we are there when Lauren walks out of the Burn Center.  The world knows all too well both the nightmare and the heroism that have marked this terrible time in history. But no account of September 11 matches the astonishing personal story Greg Manning records in these spontaneous and heartfelt pages. It is a story that invites us to share  e-mail after e-mail  the perilous course of a mortally wounded woman who by sheer will and courage emerges from near death because she is determined to live for her husband and her son. And it is equally the story of a man who  as he stays by her side through these long weeks and months  discovers anew the depth of his love and admiration for the woman who becomes his hero.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67616060702773,"sku":"ByrdShop_055338189X","price":99.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780553381894.jpg?v=1791203365","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/love-greg-lauren-a-powerful-true-story-of-courage-hope-and-survival-9780553381894","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}