New book celebrates caregivers hope and faith in coping with chronic illness (RiverheadLOCAL)
It didn’t take long after Johanna was born for her mother’s nightmares to begin. Night after night, Eileen Benthal revisited the same dark, ocean waters. The dream was always the same: there was no land around her, no bottom beneath her. Clutching her infant daughter in her arms, she struggled to keep them both afloat. “It was frightening,” said Benthal. “It haunted me.” Three months [...]