As an accomplished actress, Cathie Higgins Weir has seen many strange things in her thirty years on stage, but ten years ago she encountered an amazing sight while waiting for a double lung transplant. Her father appeared to her in a dream.
This ghost simply told his daughter, "I'll see you later."
The phrase would both haunt and comfort her during the demanding times ahead. As Weir recounts in this new memoir, she had been diagnosed with emphysema at fifty-six. Her father died at fifty-nine. She was terrified she only had three years to live.
Was her father's appearance a warning? In the hilarious, harrowing adventure ahead, Weir would learn the truth.
Weir's memoir isn't merely about her personal fight with emphysema but expands its scope to look at the realities of organ donation, the importance of being your own medical advocate, and the bonds that connect donors, recipients, and their entire support networks.
About the Author: Ten years after her double lung transplant, Cathie Higgins Weir is now a charter member of the Heavy Breathers Club. She and her husband, Rich, reside in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and have been married for forty-seven years, yet they joke forty happily.
As a result of her thirty-year career in theatre Rich proclaims, "I never know what character I'll wake up to in the morning!" He was extremely anxious when Cathie played Lady Macbeth.
Their passion is traveling, especially to tropical destinations with their daughter Susan, her beau Aaron and granddaughter Hannah. But their rescue Cairn Terrier, "Scary Kerry" stays behind at the doggie hotel.
