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Laughing Through the Tears by Christine Houston (2013, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherLIFE to Legacy. LLC

ISBN-101939654025

ISBN-139781939654021

eBay Product ID (ePID)168258436

Product Key Features

Educational LevelAdult & Further Education

Number of Pages282 Pages

Publication NameLaughing Through the Tears

LanguageEnglish

SubjectDeath, Grief, Bereavement, General, Topic / Marriage & Family, Interpersonal Relations

Publication Year2013

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaFamily & Relationships, Humor, Psychology

AuthorChristine Houston

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight14.7 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceAdult Education

SynopsisLaughing Through the Tears Shortly after Eric Haywood's retirement party, he and Crystal, his wife of twenty-eight years, embark on the first of several trips they planned long before he retired. When they reach their hotel in Las Vegas, both are more excited than two kids on their first trip to Disneyland. But a few hours later their excitement is over-shadowed by Eric's strange and unexpected behavior. Crystal is use to Eric's sometimes funny sometimes crazy antics but this newest episode both angers and alarms her. After returning home to prepare for their next venture, a seven day cruise, Crystal and Eric keep a scheduled appointment with their doctor. Crystal decides to put the episode in Vegas behind them and does not mention it to Dr. Winters. Their cruise proves to be more exciting than they ever dreamed and the two emerge happier and more in love than ever. When they return, Crystal is not prepared for Dr. Winters' diagnosis; Eric has dementia. Crystal refuses to believe that all the years they've spent loving each other and raising their four children will soon be erased from Eric's memory causing their lives to change forever. Crystal goes from a state of frustration and denial to understanding and acceptance. With the help of her children, her best friend Sherry and her next door neighbor Dorothy, Crystal learns to laugh in spite of her tears., Christine Houston was born and raised in Chicago Illinois. She is an award winning playwright, actor and director. Her stage Play, "Two Twenty-Seven" was adapted to television and became NBC's hit sitcom "227." "Laughing Through The Tears," is based on a true story that allows the reader to experience the anger, fear, anguish, and denial, that engulfed and consumed Crystal Haywood after she learned that her beloved husband of thirty-five years, has the life-changing disease, dementia. She refuses to believe that all the years, loving one another, surviving the ups and downs, accepting the good with the bad, raising their four children, together, will soon be erased from Eric's mind. There just wasn't no way Crystal could accept it. Although she had often been reminded that laughter was the best medicine Crystal thought she would never ever be able to laugh and cry at the same time.