Paradise Found and Lost is a heartbreaking and engrossing portrayal of a marriage.
Ellie was a beautiful, intelligent student nurse at a Harvard teaching hospital. Warren, a driven young intern, recognized her exceptional qualities as a life companion from their first encounter. The two dated a few months, then married.
Ellie and Warren traveled to Sweden on a fellowship, then to Seattle to finish their studies. The world was their oyster and the two believed that life couldn't get any better. But it did-with the birth of their first son. Warren began a career as a heart specialist, teacher and researcher and Ellie, a stay at home mother. Two more boys were born and some very special dogs were adopted as part of the family. The boys grew up and graduated from college, and Warren and Ellie had a chance to travel together. They celebrated 50 glorious years together.
Three months after their anniversary, Ellie was diagnosed with lung cancer and she and Warren faced a two-year battle but their love grew stronger.
Warren Guntheroth takes the reader on an intensely personal journey. This is a love story; a story of promise, hope, devastation, and acceptance, and an eloquent tribute to a woman whose life was cut short, but whose spirit lives on forever.
Warren Guntheroth is a physician and professor of Pediatric Cardiology and has written professionally for decades and has 320 publications. He still works full time and is currently writing his memoirs.
