Allison Greene

John was always healthy. Then at age twenty-six a rare autoimmune disease struck out of nowhere. «Idiopathic,» doctors said of the phenomenon that tried to take his life violently several times and to destroy his spirit more quietly over the next several years. Since John Got Sick: A Quest for Survival and Faith is the story of a young man's heroic battle to survive both the initial onslaught and the ongoing assault of a traumatic autoimmune disease and its ensuing consequences (including...