Muddy Thursday: A Memoir
Muddy Thursday: A Memoir Muddy Thursday: A Memoir Muddy Thursday: A Memoir Muddy Thursday: A Memoir. There is nothing remarkable about finding a penny on the sidewalk or bumping into an old friend on the street, but what if you stumble upon a lifeless child lying in the grass on a cold, dark night? What happens then? In Muddy Thursday, Darla Garvey tells us exactly what happens, because it happened to her. And that child? He was her son. Darla Garvey would have preferred to discover that she was a writer by crafting a work of fiction, rather than a memoir that centers on the most traumatic event of her life. And that is the sudden, mysterious death of her twelve-year old son, Ray Garvey. But Ray was here, he mattered, and his story deserves to be told. Ray lived with cystic fibrosis (CF), a genetic life-threatening disease that primarily affects the lungs and digestive system. His daily care was complicated and time-consuming, but between respiratory treatments Ray lived as if he...