A Message of Hope

Author Recounts Family Struggle and Healing in New Memoir
Surgery after surgery, awaiting news from the doctors and nurses, a woman waits in the lobby with family and friends, praying and believing. In the new non-fiction book, "We did it!" (published by AuthorHouse - http://www.authorhouse.com), Shelly Todorovitch reflects on husband Jim's battle against a latent flare of his childhood diabetes as well as her own silent struggle by his side.

Armed only with the Word of God and a continually-deepening love for her husband, Todorovitch stood by Jim who inspired this miraculous tale of courage and conquering physical adversity. "This book takes you on the two-year journey," Todorovitch says. "The journey includes closing our business down temporarily for two years; selling our home and moving; two transplant surgeries, including pancreas and kidney - I was the kidney donor; a near organ rejection after surgeries; about 20 to 24 eye surgeries, including a retina detachment; [and] the death of two family members."

Nothing has been easy or ordinary about their family's struggle. As her husband endured the physical obstacles of surgeries and procedures that constantly threatened his life, Todorovitch was burdened with the emotional suffering of a witness, helpless to intervene but for the power of her whispered prayers. "God opened doors that man said could not be opened. Against all odds, I have a miraculous testimony that I would love to share with you, a message of hope," Todorovitch says. "All things are possible to those who believe. My husband is now free from diabetes after 29 years ... But without God the Father and friends and family this journey ... would have been impossible to overcome."

"We did it!" is a moving and honest portrayal of the trials of a body failing and the divine power of prayer that Todorovitch believes can heal. "Though things look impossible, you never know what is going on behind the scenes," she says. "God has the final say so."

Shelley Todorovitch has been married to her husband for 14 years, and they have two growing boys, ages 12 and 9. She is an avid student of the Bible and leads a women's ministry group in her church body. "I am not the same woman," she says. "I am now able to minister and encourage in different ways that I never could have before." Her desire is to one day own a Christian bookstore and cafe where she will offer religious counsel and implement a revitalizing exercise program. Her hope is that people will read her account of hardship and find some comfort in its harbingering of hope. "We did it!" is her first publication.

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