5-year Illness Leads to Book of Hope

Jan. 18, 2012 – Mary Rose Takacs was bitten by a tick and stricken with an acute and advanced case of Lyme disease at the age of 9. The disease lasted for years and threatened to kill her.  Takacs, now 23 and healthy, wrote about the disease with her mother. Their book, Hope in the Midst, was written to encourage and inspire.

“When you hit those points in life, you say, ‘I have no control here. My best is not good enough.’ That’s when you turn to your faith,” says Mary Rose’s mother, Marianne Takacs.

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Hope in the Midst About the book: Don’t give up! Are you struggling to hold on to your faith? Authors Marianne and Mary Rose Takacs find themselves in such a place in 1998. During the spring, ten-year-old Mary Rose is experiencing mysterious health symptoms. In the summer, a terrifying diagnosis is given. Being warned by the physical therapist she may never walk again, Mary Rose is determined she will not spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair.