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A Wife's Suicide, a Husband's Multiple Sclerosis

Although Vern was using a wheelchair or crutches at the time, Melinda helped to hold him up for this wedding photo.

After Vern Beachy lost his wife to suicide, he began writing about what he was going through.  Not just about the difficulty of the loss but also his struggles with M.S. and his fight to get out of a wheelchair.  

To write A Tear-Stained Letter, Beachy says, "I took a knife to my heart and wrote about what fell out.”  In this interview, Beachy talks about it with host Charity Nebbe.

Charity Nebbe is the host of IPR's Talk of Iowa