Learning Your Children's Names Again
A memoir by Jerad Bitner
Learning Your Children's Names Again
A true story of love through medical crisis, family resilience, and the miracles in between.
Based on the Jenney Journals, written during the first days of diagnosis, surgery, and recovery.
About the book
A family's ordinary life, interrupted.
When a sudden diagnosis turns a family upside down, a husband's journal becomes a testament to hope. This memoir follows the journey through brain surgery and recovery, and the extraordinary season of relearning everything, including names.
It is a story about fear, faith, medicine, community, and the strange mercy of noticing small miracles while life is still coming apart.
From the journals
The entries that started it
These are the journal entries that inspired the book.
Jenney Journal, part 1
Jenney’s migraines started on Feb 10th while we were in San Diego visiting her mom. We had planned on taking the kids to Disney while we ...
Jenney Journal, part 2
I heard a crash from upstairs. I ran up to find Jenney naked on the floor of the bathroom. She had blacked out and fell on her way to the...
Jenney Journal, part 3
Jenney fell again while I was helping her to the bathroom, and I caught her. She had been having a headache and thought she needed to pee...
Inside
What you'll find inside
Medical crisis up close
The hospital rooms, the waiting, the questions, and the decisions no family is ready to make.
Family resilience
The work of caring for children, leaning on community, and learning how to keep going.
Faith under pressure
Moments of fear, fierce hope, and the miracles that looked ordinary until they didn't.
About the author
Jerad Bitner
Jerad lives in Gig Harbor, Washington with his wife Jenney and their four children. He wrote this book from the middle of a season that changed their family, their faith, and the way they understand recovery.
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