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Darlene Sayers Kardatzke, M.D., discovered her life’s calling as a pediatrician while a college student in the city of Anderson, Indiana. This book recounts her journey as a doctor, wife, and mother through years she called the "summertime" of life. Her example of living life to the fullest in the face of her struggle with cancer later in life is an inspiring tale of love and commitment.
Darlene herself coined the term, "the summertime of our lives" less than a year before she died of metastatic breast cancer. Her childhood and school years are told as well as her decision to enter the field of medicine. There are stories of tent camping with her husband and their experiences as relatively old first-time parents. As a pediatrician, Darlene was deeply committed to the well-being of infants and toddlers, especially those with developmental issues.
Some stories are funny. Others are grim as the realities of cancer treatment are told. Her cancer journey will be especially meaningful to cancer survivors and to friends of current and past cancer patients.
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Nyle Kardatzke lives and writes in Indianapolis. He worked as the Head of School at Brookfield Academy, Wisconsin; Wichita Collegiate School, Kansas; and Sycamore School, Indiana, for a total of 28 years before retiring from school headships. He has three adult children and ten grandchildren. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from UCLA. He taught economics at Marquette University in Milwaukee before becoming a private school headmaster. He studied economics to better understand the lives of people in Eritrea, where he taught in the Peace Corps as a young man in the early 1960s. His writings to date have grown out of his personal experiences from early childhood to the present.
