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Hold My Hand: A Mother's Journey

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"Hold My Hand" is a deeply moving personal account of a mother's desparate efforts to save her profoundly injured son. It is also a story of personal transformation, as she comes to recognize the full depth of her love for her son, and the meaning of love in our lives--be it the love of our family or the love of perfect strangers.

Beautiful! Heart Warming! Pure! and truly captivating.
An inspiring, amazing true story that influences me to want to live more beautifully. I've never soaked a book with tears before this one as it will have you soaring the winds of grief and joy too.

This is one of the BEST books I have ever read. Glenys dropped everything when she heard her son was in a coma on the other side of the world. She tended to him 24 hours a day, seven days a week, even setting her alarm clock every 3 hours to turn Scott over in bed so he wouldn't get bed sores.

I find it amazing that there were always people to help Glenys, all she needed to do was step out of her home and people were there willing to help her tend to Scott. She is obviously guided by someone on the other side. Even when she rented a house for 18 months that was up for sale, not once did she get a call from the real estate agent to say someone wanted to view the house. Yet, the day Scott died, she got the first call. Coincidence?

Tears streamed down my face when Scott died in hospital. For a mother having to make the decision between watching her child suffer or relieving his pain but with a risk he could die - how can a mother possibly make that decision?

For 4 years Scott was in and out of hospital - and each time he overcame infection after infection without antibiotics. However, the hospital made a terrible mistake which cost Scott his life.

Get this book and read it - you won't be disappointed.

I don't feel I can find the appropriate words to delivery how much I have been effected by this story. I found myself laughing out loud in moments, while crying heavily in others. The author's strength, creative soul and most profoundly --her humanity transcends life itself. This story moves me.The kindness the author encountered amongst so many strangers along her journey moves me. I found myself crying on the subway on my way to work this morning rereading beautiful passage about her son and a special bunny named Thumper.

Most eloquently stated by the author," There are things more powerful than our best intentions; that life is painted in broader strokes than we can imagine and all we can do is our best." I felt so connected to her and her view of life, and the strength to weather life's obstacles with an overwhelming endurance, to fully embrace life with an open heart and tender kindness..

After reading her book, I felt more available to the present moment and wanted to live, to take, to enjoy, to really experience life in all its fullest.The author and her actions really impacted me. She's is an incredble woman. I highly recommend this book as a very powerful, moving journey into her love for her son, her soul, and her humanity effecting thousands.
-Kirsten Lewis, New York, New York

I must admit that this is one of the most touching and inspiring book I've ever read. I refuse to close the book before I finished reading it! This story is about a mother who will do ANYTHING and EVERYTHING for a miracle so that her son, Scott who suffered from a traumatic head injury and was not expected to live again will be able to walk again. She have gone to great lenghts from Australia to London, putting out leaflets asking help from strangers to be volunteers to help with her invalid son. Strangers of all ages, sizes and different backgrounds turn up to give a helping hand in anyway they can. This taught me that even though one may be a complete stranger to another - kindness, generosity and faith will bring people together in a most extraordinary way. I will definitely recommend this book to anyone because I'm sure it'll be an inspiration to you. Like what Scott said, "I love living!"

I am really happy to have come across this book.
This is a portrait of people of strength.
Not fantacy or fiction that the author takes the liberty to weave the magic
but the magic that was lived and transformed many people.
to live fully with all the power in your soul, sometimes, it was through challenges
that ignite the fire from within.

i know people like Glenys Carl, those who live magic and create everything they need from all situations because of their will power, vision and the love that reside in their hearts that knows no limit.

i fully appreciate her sharing of such a tapestry of her life and her beloved.
inspirational and moving...
it's a book to open hearts.

Hilary and Gillian, your step-cousins from Cardiff, read your book and were interested in your interpretation of our Welsh past. Good read. From Hilary and Gilly.

Hold My Hand is a loving testament to the challenge of learning to trust the unknown and allowing hope and life to lead the way in excruciating human circumstances.--Psycologist and Yoga Teacher

Gleny's Carl has an alarming call that her son is in a coma in Australia and may not live through the night. This is the beginning of a true story that sets the reader on a plane from Germany to London to Sydney with the all of the anxiety that this woman experiences trying to reach her son in time.
The resulting story is one of miraculous recovery through persistance and hard work, of small victories with the help of many caring volunteers. Both mother and son, lovable, humorous people with much to give, offer a chance for others to help and reap benefits in return.
The reader will find this a richly rewarding story that will stay with them for a long time.

My daughter- in -law gave me this book for Christmas. Once I started reading it, I couldn't put it down. The writng is puts the reader in Gleny's shoes--and what BIG SHOES for such a small person! I am inspired by the magic that happened by her act of acceptance and surrender.