Mistaken Identity
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Mistaken Identity

Two Families, One Survivor, Unwavering Hope

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Mistaken Identity

Two Families, One Survivor, Unwavering Hope

About this book

A grief reversed. A hope deferred. Mistaken Identity tells the unprecedented story of Laura Van Ryn and Whitney Cerak: one buried under the wrong name, and the other in a coma being cared for by the wrong family.

Five lives were lost in a tragic car accident, and the sole survivor was rushed to the hospital, where she remained in a coma for five weeks. Everyone believed that Laura Van Ryn was in a coma, and that Whitney Cerak had died in the crash—until Whitney woke up.

This shocking case of mistaken identity stunned the country and made national news. Would it destroy a family? Shatter their faith? Push two families into bitterness, resentment, and guilt? In Mistaken Identity, the Van Ryn family and the Cerek family describe their ordeal and explore the bond sustaining and uniting them as they deal with their bizarre reversal of life lost and life found.

Mistaken Identity weaves a complex tale of honesty, vulnerability, loss, hope, faith, and love in the face of one of the strangest twists of circumstances imaginable.

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Information

Publisher
Howard Books
Year
2008
Print ISBN
9781439153550
eBook ISBN
9781416584339
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Social Science Biographies

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Prologue
  3. 1. The Exchange
  4. 2. April 26, 2006
  5. 3. ICU
  6. 4. Coming to Grips With a New Reality
  7. 5. Waiting
  8. 6. Comfort in the Midst of Pain
  9. 7. From Fort Wayne to Sydney and Every Point In Between
  10. 8. First Milestone
  11. 9. “Happy Birthday, Whitney”
  12. 10. Turning A Corner
  13. 11. A Celebration of Life
  14. 12. “Hi”
  15. 13. “Life Will Never Be the Same Again”
  16. 14. Waking Up
  17. 15. Mistaken Identity
  18. 16. Telling the Family
  19. 17. Back From the Dead
  20. 18. Hope in Tragedy
  21. 19. After the Hurricane
  22. 20. Fast Forward
  23. 21. Moving Ahead
  24. Epilogue from Whitney
  25. Photographs
  26. Afterword
  27. In Honor of Those Lost
  28. Acknowledgments
  29. About The Van Ryn family, The Cerak family and Mark Tabb
  30. Copyright

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