![]() Her treatment of Johnny and the rest of us made me hate and fear her.” “When she beat him, I tried to stop her, but still a kid myself, I couldn’t do much. “When he was a toddler, my mother tied Johnny to his crib to keep him out of her way,” Keller explained in the April issue of Psychology Today. While cruel to all the children, Keller’s mother was especially abusive to Johnny because her husband had forced her to have the child, who she openly admitted she did not want. The youngest of the children, the boy had left home at 16, driven away by an abusive mother whose husband had abandoned the family when Johnny was four. As recounted in “Blood Brother,” a memoir published this year, the thoughts of the former Petaluma resident turned to a mysterious third brother, Johnny, who had disappeared 30 years earlier. She turned to her two brothers, but neither was a match for the operation. Only an immediate bone marrow transplant might save her. ![]() She was likely to die within three years. That was the challenge Susan Keller, a former professional medical writer, faced 15 years ago when diagnosed with mantle cell lymphoma, a rare blood cancer. ![]() ![]() In times of need, we have the proverbial assurance that “blood is thicker than water” - but what if you can’t find the blood? Published in the Argus Courier, OctoIn new memoir, long-lost brother returns to save sister’s life ![]()
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