GS3 - Two Kisses for Maddy
GS3 - Two Kisses for Maddy
Title: GS3 - Two Kisses for Maddy
Disciplines: Childbearing (CB)
Learning Objectives:
Submission Description:
Matt and Liz Logelin were high school sweethearts. After years of long-distance dating, the pair finally settled together in Los Angeles, and they had it all: a perfect marriage, a gorgeous new home, and a baby girl on the way. Liz's pregnancy was rocky, but they welcomed Madeline, beautiful and healthy, into the world on March 24, 2008.
Just twenty-seven hours later, Liz suffered a pulmonary embolism and died instantly, without ever holding the daughter whose arrival she had so eagerly awaited. Though confronted with devastating grief and the responsibilities of a new and single father, Matt did not surrender to devastation; he chose to keep moving forward-- to make a life for Maddy.
In his memoir, Two Kisses for Maddy, Matt shares bittersweet and often humorous anecdotes of his courtship and marriage to Liz; of relying on his newborn daughter for the support that she unknowingly provided; and of the extraordinary online community of strangers who have become his friends. In honoring Liz's legacy, heartache has become solace.
Tuesday, June 16, 2015: 8:00 AM-9:15 AM
Hall B (Long Beach Convention Center)
Presenting Author:
Matt Logelin
Moderator:
Emily Drake, RN, PhD