writing – Page 11 – Nancy Jean Walker

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Post #36 – An Excerpt from My Memoir – One Way Sex Traffickers Break a Victim

By Nancy on September 1, 2015 • ( Leave a comment )

LIVING DEAD GIRL Alone in the apartment prison, I didn’t know how many days had passed with no sign of my abductors. The wall had no clock. There was no phone, and Shane had bolted the front door and sealed the windows shut. I wondered if I’d be […]

Post #33 – A 104.5 ° Fever, Soothing Ice Bath, and a Lovely Wheelchair Stroll

By Nancy on August 25, 2015 • ( Leave a comment )

On November 24, 2003, three days before Thanksgiving, an ambulance rushed me to Johns Hopkins Hospital emergency room with a 104.5 ° fever. I vaguely heard a whir of voices, and felt the ice cubes as they hit my body; but it was as if I was a spectator. […]

Post #32 – The Broken Hip that Rescued Me from Myself Amidst Other Surprises

By Nancy on August 23, 2015 • ( 4 Comments )

It has been three years since I broke my left hip at the femoral neck. My life changed radically that day. Due to a blood clot the full length of the femoral vein in my thigh that occurred during surgery, my doctors not only confined me to bed, but […]

Post # 30 – Disability ~ Readjustments ~ Infinite Possibilities

By Nancy on August 19, 2015 • ( 1 Comment )

For an instant after I wake up each morning, my bedridden condition reminds me of the horrors of my past, until someone opens my window blinds. The sun bursts into my room with no apologies. Each sunrise promises me a new day filled with infinite possibilities. My situation, naturally, […]

Post #17 – Penning My Story – Bleeding on the Pages

By Nancy on May 22, 2015 • ( Leave a comment )

I was up last night until 4:00 a.m. working on the final rewrites of my book (I lost all track of time). It will hopefully be the last time I will have to return to those painful memories. My co-writer and editor, Peter Lundell, a professional author and […]