Loving Large
A Mother's Rare Disease Memoir

This book was without a doubt extraordinary. Patti told her own true story through a devastating time, with honesty, humility and some humour thrown in. The story itself is heart wrenching and leaves you knowing that a mothers love holds such a powerful strength and bond, all else fails in comparison......more

I started this book late on a Saturday night, and finished it late the next day... or should I say very early in the morning two days later. As her son explains at the end, this isn’t his story - it’s the story of a mom who hears the worst news a mom can hear, at THE most inopportune time in her lif......more

This is the best kind of memoir, one written by an ordinary person that is put into an extraordinary circumstances. Patti's life is thrown off course when her son is diagnosed with first a golf-ball size tumor and then gigantism, a disease that is attached to a negative stigma. Patti's fight for her......more

This was a moving account of a mother's journey with her son's gigantism, a rare and usually fatal disease that makes him grow dangerously large. I cried throughout-- I've been through a similar journey, and it brought it all back to me. Patti M. Hall's relationship with her sons is truly inspiratio......more