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Hands Upon My Heart: My Journey Through Heart Disease and Into Life

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This book is an excellent story about health problems regarding the heart. Anyone with heart disease should read this. As well as anyone interested in health and its impact on oneself and one's family. I highly recommend it.

I had to put my head between my knees several times while reading Perry Foster's Hands Upon My Heart. It's a gritty, fact-filled journey through heart disease. We live vicariously every aspect of it, including the nonphysical. The author demonstrates, with great feeling and emotion, how it affects marriage and faith, and changes not only the patient but those who love him.

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book.
Mr. Foster juxtaposes the clinical hospital experience with everyday family drama and flashback. This technique makes for an engrossing and inspirational read. Highly recommended for those who have had bypass surgery, those who know someone who will, or for just those who enjoy reading true stories set within the modern medical world.

Every person with a heart should read this book. Perry Foster gives an honest, unadulterated account of his most personal thoughts and feelings. He takes the reader through the medical procedures reflecting his honest emotions and fears at every step. His accounts are interspersed with flashbacks of his family and friends, tenderizing the harsh realities of his horrendous journey, and exposing the source of his strength.

Everyone in the world knows someone who's gone through this agony and personal terror. Those of us who had to sit back and watch can now see, through Mr. Foster's eyes the feelings of our loved ones.

A book deserving of more accolades than I can express, well done Perry.

Reviewed by Wanda C. Keesey

In Hands Upon My Heart, Perry Foster carefully details each prognosis and treatment along his path to wellness giving the reader an insider's look at angioplasty, stents, catheterization, saphenous vein grafts, and heart by-pass surgery. Foster's willingness to share his inner most feelings about his condition, his care, his quickly changing life, and his deepest fears about life and death is what makes this book a 'must read' for anyone who is suffering from heart disease or knows someone who is. Whether you find yourself facing open heart surgery of any kind, you will want to read Perry's book.