A STROKE OF PROVIDENCE

About the Book

Gozil Oxley experiences a sudden brain hemorrhage on her way to work in 2006. She believes that it was God’s providence that led her to a place where people could assist her. Through the prompt intervention of the medical and nursing staff at Saint Agnes Medical Center in Fresno, California, she is quickly diagnosed and closely observed during the night, until she could be transferred to a well-known medical center in San Francisco the next day, for brain surgery. Her family supported her in numerous ways through a very difficult recovery. Her recovery is compounded by her brother’s death. But with her renewed faith in God, she emerges from this ordeal a stronger person, whose life has been forever changed.

About the Author

Dr. Oxley, Professor Emerita in Nursing, taught nursing at California State University, Fresno, from 1987 until she retired in 2006. She earned a PhD in nursing from the University of California, San Francisco, in 1994. Her nursing background includes over thirty years in clinical practice and nursing education. Dr. Oxley has published three articles in scholarly journals in nursing. She received the Outstanding Research Award by Sigma Theta Tau—the honor society in nursing, for a presentation of her research at the tenth annual symposium held in Fresno, California in 1996. She received the Professor Emerita Award in Nursing for excellence in teaching, research, and community service, when she retired in 2006. Born in Barbados, she now lives in California.