Let Me Go When the Banter Stops tells the true love story of
Seattle physician, Dr. Linda Gromko, who finds herself in a midlife
romance, only to discover that her future holds joyful new
beginnings, but also the pain and heartache of letting go.
Dovetailing with her earlier memoir, Complications: A Doctor's Love
Story, Dr. Gromko's new book revisits the early days and challenges
of her burgeoning relationship with her future husband, Steve
Williams, a self-made business executive and consummate networker
living comfortably with his feisty nine-year-old daughter, Brita.
As Complications chronicled, their obstacles included a whirlwind
of family dynamics, the relative remoteness of Bainbridge Island to
Seattle, and, most significantly, Steve's failing health due to
adult onset diabetes, high blood pressure, and the attendant
reality of end stage kidney failure. The ensuing story-painful at
times, but always heartfelt and grounded in humor-takes
unimaginable turns of good fortune, beleaguered frustration, and
resilient perseverance, revealing the contemporary medical
profession at its best and worst. Written from both a doctor's
professional perspective and a caregiver's personal point of view,
Let Me Go When the Banter Stops presents a firsthand testament to
overcoming adversity and meeting new challenges. In the tumultuous
course of Steve's medical issues and the family's personal trials,
they face kidney dialysis and organ transplant, cardiac
complications and setbacks, and surgery after surgery. As the story
unfolds, Steve's treatment ultimately takes Linda back to the same
university medical center where she trained as a nurse and as a
physician, teaching her more than she ever thought she would need
to know about kidney disease and its management. She also gains
insight into the different "types" of health care providers -
providing her a greater understanding of her own struggles with the
health care system. Throughout its pages, Let Me Go When the Banter
Stops remains at its heart the story of a scrappy little family
making its way through medical uncertainties and life's unforeseen
turns. This poignant memoir plumbs the depths of sadness and grief,
yet ultimately resonates triumphant, as Dr. Gromko and her new
daughter Brita discover a shared courage to prevail after a
devastating loss. Let Me Go When the Banter Stops is a powerful
story of the unthinkable realities of disease and the unfathomable
capacity of human endurance, bearing witness to the sustaining
lessons that love reveals in the most unexpected of ways.
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