Burton Metzger

Partners in Life and Unconditional Love Burton Metzger

Publisher Marketing: Strangers meet on a commuter train. Years later, they fall in love, marry, and generate a new life from New York, to Savannah, Georgia. Fourteen months later, the wife has a sudden stroke which changed an accomplished athlete and challenged the love between them. A mysterious searing pain condition like a hot iron left her without a moment free of the intense pain. Neither countless medications, almost twenty surgeries, treatments, clinics, did not even identify it for ten years, when pain doctors diagnosed Central Pain Syndrome. This is incurable, and intensifies any other pain she may have in her body. Eighteen years after the stroke, she was diagnosed with Primary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis, and as that has developed, pain ran from her head, her left ear and eye, all the way down her left side, including arm, hand, torso, leg and foot. She could no longer walk. This is a true story about the courage and determination of this woman, determined to accomplish things in spite of her condition, bolstered by the unconditional love between the couple which brings them even closer. A remarkable romance which will not let this adversity tear them apart. A woman who will not quit, and even signed up for college courses to get her college degree.