Waking Up with Nora

Every new life has the potential to make life new. But, what if that new life is extraordinary?Just prior to Nora’s birth, an unusual experience told Tanya that her granddaughter’s life would be special and the missing link to a connection she’d lost in her own childhood. The manifestation of that foreshadowing was understated and quickly overshadowed, when just after birth, Nora began having hundreds of seizures a day.Waking Up With Nora is a grandmother’s perspective of the fear-ridden days and hospital nights in the two-year journey, with her daughter, through Nora’s epilepsy and life-altering hemispherectomy brain surgery. Nora’s amazing story, entwined with her grandmother’s is a triumph of love, loss, and reconnection. It not only pulls back the curtain on one family who copes with the extraordinary health challenges of a special needs child, it shines a light on the extraordinary way life challenges us to realize that we’re never too old, or too young, to become who we came here to be.