Author (along with Glenn Plaskin), On My Way Back To You, One Couple’s Journey through Catastrophic Illness to Healing and Hope
This week, Ira spoke with Sarah Cart, author (along with Glenn Plaskin) of On My Way Back To You, One Couple’s Journey through Catastrophic Illness to Healing and Hope. In this healing episode of “Ira’s Everything Bagel,” Sarah talks about why she decided to write the book about her husband’s incurable autoimmune disease and its impact on their lives; their life-and-death love story; why she decided to journal during her care giving experience; why the emails she sent to family and friends were the first outline of the book; having a close core of friends; how her first Zoom was the night her husband went into the hospital (because of COVID); the importance of humor in coping; the challenges of being a caregiver; the practical steps her husband shared with her in case he died; and why writing her book was her therapy.
Sarah Cart was raised and educated in New York and New England. As a freelancer, she wrote for multiple local publications while she and her husband, Ben, raised four sons in northeastern Ohio. Upon becoming empty nesters, the two moved to the Florida Keys, but they returned every summer to the Pennsylvania Poconos, where each had lifelong family connections. Then came Covid. The pandemic, combined with Ben’s health issues, necessitated their sheltering in place in Florida for the entirety of 2020. In the wake of Ben’s undergoing miraculous lifesaving measures, they have been afforded the unanticipated gift of a future and, more than ever before, relish time spent with family and friends.
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