Pat WeisgerberPat Weisgerber is a German Canadian business woman, nurse, author, realtor, farmer and housewife. Farming was her life and raising four children. She grew up on a Saskatchewan farm and obtained her education in a rural town of Schuler, Alberta. Thereshe met her High School Sweetheart -Tom Weisgerber and married at the age of nineteen. She then moved to another farm with her husband two miles south of Schuler, Alberta. She happily lived with her husband and her four babies. Her husband became ill and lost his kidneys at the age of 33 and Pat trained, ran and maintained a dialysis machine for her husband on the farm home some four hundred miles away from a kidney hospital- the Foothills Hospital, Calgary, Alberta. There she had encountered and pulled through many struggles many times praying and pleading with God. She became a strong woman. After many battles of Toms health, Pat was left to be a young widow. Weisgerber paints an intimate portrait of growing up in Rural Alberta, the plans of meeting her life long love, her deci- sion to walk off the farm to give to her children what she so loved, the importance of faith and family and the unique joys and trials of life as a high-profile mother. Pat knows a thing or two about working her way to the top. Her true pride and joy rests with the triumphs that are her four children -Fred, Michelle, Arden and Tommy. Pat proudly imparted upon her children what she believes the most important life lesson- loyalty, honesty, integ- rity and drive to succeed with unparallel candor and wit. God and love for her children carried her forward. Pat farmed and worked at the Medicine Hat Hospital as a physio assistant and a nurse with Children's Health and Developmental Program and organized and worked the recreational programs for the elderly in a nursing home. Pat also worked as a Realtor for eleven years and did very well associating with various kinds of people. Pat shares never before told stories of what it was to raise four children in Rural Alberta. Pat recounts what it means to be a fierce mother to this universal eye-opening memoir for a single parent everywhere. The plot twists, dream make out sessions, a touch of humor and a scary culmination make for faith and grace. Today she looks with pride on her four children and their spouses and ten grandchildren. She lives in Medicine Hat, Alberta with her Little Yorkie dog named Spirit, who she shares many happy moments with. Read More Read Less