Letters to Sheri

"Your baby has infantile myoclonic seizures, " the doctor said. "She will never walkor talk. Her life expectancy is about five years. She is so severly retarded that shewill never be able to give of receive love. My recommendation to you is that you placeher in an institution and forget that she ever existed."With these words, time skipped a beat for this young family. When it began beating again, nothing was ever the same. It was as though their precious little baby died, and they wereleft with only an empty shell of the child she might have been, could have been, should have been.Letters to Sheri is the personal account of one mother's journey through the grieving process associated with the loss of the child she dreamed of having to acceptance and celebration of the person her daughter is. In Letters to Sheri, Billye Giesecke gives an intimate glimpse into the process of healing and recovery over not only this great grief inher life, but healing and recovery over traumas she experienced as a child growing up and their destructive power on her life as an adult.Billye Giesecke is the author of 'Letters to Sheri', published 2001 under ISBN 9781589300170 and ISBN 1589300173.