Overview
What if your husband gave you a kidney and you chugged a beer with your painkillers the next day?
What if your loving marriage became a tortured threesome? Husband, Wife and Pills?
Meet Henriette and Kevin. As newlyweds, they move to LA to conquer Hollywood. When the dream begins to fade, Henriette delves into a secret life of Pills. Diagnosed with a rejecting kidney transplant, she becomes crippled by fear. Convinced Kevin can never understand, her part-time narcotic trysts explode into a full-blown pharmaceutical affair.
She is in love. Fiorinal, Vicodin, Morphine...All of them. Until onebackstabbing day, Pills lead her to her first overdose. Shattered, Kevin sacrifices his soul for his wife. He talks the ER out of a psychiatric hold. Later, he looks away when she pops Xanax on dialysis. Alone and barely holding on, Kevin believes the unconditional act of donating his kidney will save his wife's life and heal their marriage.
It doesn't. The kidney rejects. There is a second overdose. Nothing seems to break Pills' obsessive hold over Henriette.
But will it break Kevin? Will it break them? And after a lifetime of cheating can Henriette imagine a sober marriage of two?
In Pillness and in Health sweeps its reader into the maelstrom of true love held hostage by disease. Dare to be devastated, over and over, by the relentless tornado of their story. Written with radical honesty, and startling wit, In Pillness and in Health shines new light in the dark corners of addiction and codependency, as we wonder how many devastating diseases can one marriage survive?
| Born | October 29, 1968 (age 52) Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
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| Occupation | actress |
'In Pillness and in Health' is Ms. Ivanans' first book. She won the Allegra Johnson Award in Memoir Writing (UCLA Writers' Extension) (2015). Her essay, 'Alcohol May Intensify Effect' was published in Issue 19 of 'Barrelhouse' magazine (2019). Her indie-published memoir, In Pillness and in Health, is a bestseller on Amazon and poignantly tells the story of a marriage held hostage by disease. In raw and moving prose, Henriette recounts. In Pillness and in Health: A memoir In Pillness and in Health: A memoir. Home; Translate. Download PDF Online A Mind at Home with Itself: How Asking Four Questions Can Free Your Mind, Open Your Heart, and Turn Your World Around ManyBooks PDF.
Henriette Ivanans (born October 29, 1968) is a Canadian actress and writer.
Ivanans appeared for two seasons on the hit CBC series Liberty Street as well as making many notable theatre performances in Toronto including the Shaw Festival in Niagara on the Lake, Ontario. After many years in Canadian and American television work, she moved to Los Angeles and continues to work in television and film, most recently in JAG, Strong Medicine, Star Trek Voyager[1] and the film Smother, which stars Diane Keaton, Liv Tyler, and Dax Shepard.
Ivanans is of Latvian and Danish heritage; her father is from Riga, and her mother is from Copenhagen. She is a graduate of Ryerson Theatre School in Toronto.
She is the author of 'In Pillness and in Health' a memoir about her recovery from drugs and alcohol during her kidney transplant where her husband was the donor.
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- ^Ruditis, Paul (2003). Star Trek Voyager Companion. Simon and Schuster. p. 359. ISBN9780743417518. Retrieved 3 September 2010.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
External links[edit]
In Illness And In Health
In Sickness And In Health Wedding Vows
https://www.henrietteivanans.com Official website
In Sickness And In Health Movie
- Henriette Ivanans at IMDb
- Henriette Ivanans Resume at ActorsAccess.com
In Pillness And In Health