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Tom Sullivan
Dear Reader, As a person who happens to be blind, I can't imagine the devastation felt by veterans who become disabled due to injuries suffered in combat. One minute you're a whole person, and the next everything about your self-worth and your future is changed. In writing my new book, ALIVE DAY, I have had the privilege of getting to know hundreds of veterans who have served our country and who have paid a substantial price. In talking with these wonderful guys, I decided that my story would deal with spinal cord injury that involved paralysis from the waist down and a loss of sexual function. Dr. Brenden McCarthy is the blind psychiatrist who treats Antoine Carver, an African-American kid from South Central LA, who doesn't believe he has any reason to continue to live. Dr. McCarthy draws on his own personal experience with disability and his clinical knowledge of post-traumatic stress disorder to bring Corporal Antoine Carver back to life. Dr. McCarthy, our blind psychiatrist, is aided in his effort by Nelson, his black Labrador retriever guide-dog, who becomes the therapeutic link to the lost GI and forges a friendship that makes the injured soldier believe there is still room for love in his life. The title ALIVE DAY comes from a tradition maintained in the Marine Corps that when a soldier has been wounded, his brothers in arms all present him with an Alive Day cake, much like our birthday tradition, on the anniversary marking his survival. In an ironic twist, Dr. Brenden McCarthy and Nelson face their own Alive Day crisis and are forced to survive against impossible odds. It has been my privilege to write this book, and it's my hope that you'll enjoy reading ALIVE DAY, along with learning more about Dr. Brenden McCarthy and Nelson in an earlier work by reading Together, authored by Tom Sullivan with friend and actress Betty White. Tom Sullivan www.thomasnelson.com |