Aloha to all my Blog readers:

I will never give up promoting my book, Polynesian Dreams, but I have been sick, very sick in fact with Guillain Barre Syndrome. This rare disease left me practically paralyzed for 5 weeks in the hospital. I was so helpless that I needed to be spoon fed, turned over every two hours and all my bodily functions stopped. Miraculous my muscles slowly started to respond once I was in rehab and after 4 weeks in Air Force Village West skilled nursing, I could walk behind a walker. After I was discharged it only took weeks before I could park my walker and I am not using a cane, more as a security blanket than anything else.

Okay, I am getting well and will once more promote my inspirational epic memoir, as it is described on most of the electronic booksellers, in blogs, FaceBook etc. Go to my web site, http://www.booktofightaddiction.com for details on how to order my $3.79, 351 page book that give hope to everyone who has their lives controlled by alcohol, drugs, sex, food, smoking or any other number of addictions. My meager proceeds are being donated to an animal shelter and adoption agency.

I learned about the power of prayer as an eight year old boy in Holland, my native country. I forgot about it for over 75 years until I was in the hospital unable to move a single limb or function. I remembered my Sunday school lessons and put my hands together. Was it the excellent physical therapists who worked with me or the Higher Power that rules over all of us? At rehab they labeled me the Miracle Man. Never had they worked with somebody with Guillain Barre Syndrome who recovered so quickly. Yes, 85% of patients recover but it often takes years.  I did it in 4 weeks, go figure. I am still not 100% but I walk, drive my car and am living with my wife, Bettie and my feline companion, Mieshe in an assisted living facility, Brookdale Cherry Hills, in Sun City. This is almost like living on a cruise ship without going anywhere or without getting sea sick.  More about this 1 in 100,000 dreadful illness in later blogs. Until then, read a sample chapter on Kindle, Nook, Kobo or any other electronic book seller site. Polynesian Dreams by Johan Van Oldenbarneveld. You might like it enough to invest $3,79 and help find a home for a deserving animal.

Mahalo, Johan, Sun City, February 21, 2016