The book has been well-received by readers who commended the author for being a great example of unconditional love.
San Diego, California – WEBWIRE – Monday, April 11, 2022
Catch the book display for Shopping with a Schizophrenic by Kim Hopkins at the LA Times Festival of Books 2022.
A quote by author Marion C. Garretty goes like this, A mothers love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible. This quote is best applied to Kim Hopkins, a semi-retired nurse and author of the book Shopping with a Schizophrenic (LifeRich Publishing; 2019).
In Shopping with a Schizophrenic, the author shares her life and reflections as a mother to a son, who not only is subject to a mental illness but experiences the devastating effects of a brain surgery gone wrong. She talks about her son Cory, who was diagnosed with schizophrenia at age 24 and underwent a subsequent brain surgery that went wrong.
Hopkins said: Everyones story is unique. Mental illness can take many forms and how the family unit reacts to it determines the outcome that person may have. It is just a different way of living. There is no normal. You can find humor in almost any situation.
Shopping with a Schizophrenic has received positive reviews from readers. An Amazon customer Tami wrote: It is an awesome read of honest emotions of a mothers experience doing her best to care for her son with most difficult health challenges. It is honest, funny, heartbreaking, and inspirational.
Another Amazon customer, Marcie Hixson, said: Its a first-person account and you get the whole feeling of what the family went through to help their beloved son. Its a story of love, family, parenthood, friends, chronic illness, medical community, and a lifetime of dealing with them. The mother reveals the hardship, but still maintains a tremulous sense of humor.
Shopping with a Schizophrenic
Author | Kim Hopkins
Published date | March 5, 2019
Publisher | LifeRich Publishing
Book retail price | $14.99
Shopping with a Schizophrenic by Kim Hopkins is available on Amazon and on the authors website https://www.aschizophrenicsstory.com/.
Shopping with a Schizophrenic will be displayed by self-publishing and book marketing company ReadersMagnet at their exhibit at booth 208 for the 2022 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on April 23-24, 2022, at the USC Campus, Los Angeles, CA.
Author Bio
Kim Hopkins is a semi-retired BSN, RN having worked for 40 years as a bedside ICU and ED nurse. Aside from dealing with mental illness in a wide variety of hospital patients, her oldest son was diagnosed with schizophrenia at the age of twenty-four. During her career as an RN, she kept an accredited CCRN (Certified Critical Care Nurse) for 35 years; maintained certifications for TNCC (Trauma Nursing Core Course) ACLS (Advanced Cardiac Life Support) and ENPC (Emergency Nurse Pediatrics Course). She has two previously unpublished books written prior to her sons brain surgery, that may be edited and re-written, and several magazine articles. She lives in northwest Missouri with her dogs and cats. Writing has always been the first love of her life.