Sammy I Love You

Reviewed By  Janet Mawdesley       November 26, 2014

 

Author  Sally Nielsen

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ISBN:                 978-1-74237-974-6
Publisher:         Allen & Unwin
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When you are young, in love and have the future ahead of you like a shining beacon, it is hard to believe life can throw you a curved ball, but Sally Neilsen and Sam Goddard were thrown such a ball and this is their story.

This is a love story which surmounts all obstacles and pays tribute to the adage “Love conquers All”

Sam met Sally and they felt they had found something in each other that was special. Over several years their relationship developed becoming stronger, with them realising this was more than just a relationship, this was the stuff that had that something extra, that life everlasting kick to it, that other half of each other partnership stamp to it.

Eventually moving into their own home, with jobs that they enjoyed, planning their own wedding and enjoying all life had to offer, Sally and Sam had life before them.

On Valentine’s Day 2012 Sam went out to compete in a SIDS fundraising soccer game, suffered what appeared to be severe dehydration, found himself in an ambulance on his way to hospital and was later diagnosed with having suffered several severe strokes.

Sam was left on life support and was in a coma for many, many days. The journey they have faced together is enormous: Sam’s slow, painful, partial recovery , the loss of the life they would have shared together, the toll on Sally’s health are all written from the basis that true love, stubborn determination and faith in small miracles can and will conquer all.

This is Sally’s tribute to Sam and to herself along with the true belief that if you hang in there, if you truly love someone and if you refuse to give in, there is always hope.

Sally writes her diary with no holds barred; details the highs, the so very many lows, Sam’s pathway to partial recovery has taken.

Inspirational, tragic, full of loss and gain you cry with her, cheer for her, and wish both of them well for their very special, very challenging future together.

Sam and Sally plan to wed on Valentine’s Day 2013, a celebration of their love and their determination to overcome the many challenges life will still have to offer them both.