About The Author
A native North Carolinian, Paige Ranson was born and bred in the South where she and her family enjoy both the mountains and the beach. She holds degrees in Interior Design and Fashion Merchandising and earned a master’s in counseling. She has worked with the cancer patient support program at Duke University Hospital, the Chaplaincy at Presbyterian Hospital, and a Charlotte based pediatric neurologist group. For more than twenty years, she maintained a successful private practice, counseling adolescents and adults for grief, anxiety and depression.
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Claire’s Army strives to act as God’s hands and feet for families fighting childhood cancer by supporting their daily responsibilities, allowing them to put time and focus on their child.
A must read for parents, healthcare workers, and anyone who wants to gain a true appreciation for the meaning of life. Paige Ranson’s writing will have you in the room as she and her son Buck fight the fight of his life against the savage disease that is cancer. Chronicling how her faith becomes the fourth leg of the support stool which includes her husband, family, and community, you’ll cheer on the heroes and shout down a few zeros while learning how life prepares you for LIFE.
— Dan Pliszka, author of Life is Great, Even if Your Boat Flips Over
Paige Ranson has written an honest and soul-filled book that will take you on a journey from her strong Southern roots to marriage and then motherhood when her son Buck is diagnosed with Leukemia when he is eighteen months old. The reader will see the exhaustive surgeries, medicine, bone biopsies, and hospital stays Buck (and his parents) endured from when he was a toddler to a young teen. This book about family, love, and perseverance is hard to put down.
—Amy R. Peacock, co-author of Old Breed General