FAMILY IN CRISIS

About the Book

Sarah Miller’s surgery is not going well and she needs blood. However, she has given her doctor written instructions not to give her blood because she is a Jehovah’s Witness. He briefly interrupts the surgery to ask her children gathered there if they will override her instructions. Because without blood, she will die. A few weeks later one of Sarah’s sons tells his family that he has Aids. They will have to care for him because he is single. Members of the family describe how they simultaneously coped with these two crises. Sarah describes the death of her mother when she was a young child and her father’s unsuccessful attempts to keep her and her young brother together. Also, her marriage to Ralph Miller and her life after his death.

About the Author

Alice Davis Wood is a life long resident of Waynesboro, Virginia. She is a graduated of Mary Baldwin College and retired from General Electric Company. She loves biographies, mysteries and is an avid Lewis and Clark fan. Alice has a son, two daughters and their spouses, six grandchildren and several great-grandchildren. She is the author of ‘Dr. Francis Stribling and Moral Medicine’ and ‘Dorothea Dix and Dr. Francis Stribling: An Intense Friendship, Letters 1849-1874.’