Terry Weible Murphy - Life in Rewind: The Story of a Young Courageous Man Who Persevered Over OCD and the Harvard Doctor Who Broke All the Rules to Help Him

Leave No Man Behind

The Day Life Stopped

Time Equals Progression, Progression Equals Death

Time to Go Home

Something About Michael

Michaels War

Trapped in the Basement

The Betrayal

History of Pain

A Different Kind of Doctor

Eds Faith Regained

A Step Forward

Forward in Time

Time Changes Everything

Mayada

In-Laws and OCD

A Choice of Dreams

Building Dreams into Reality

Eds Moment of Triumph

In February of 1998, I sat in a quiet restaurant in Clayton, Missouri, across from a man I barely knew, but would never forget, and announced that one day I would write a book. It was an improbable dream, and Im still not sure whether I was selling the idea to him, or to myself, but clearly the seed took root. Exactly ten years later, in February of 2008, I delivered the manuscript for this book to my publisher at HarperCollins.

The journey from that moment to this began with a belief system that was instilled in me by my mother, Carol, who was a gifted believer in her children. She was a voracious readerand that included every little poem and story that I scribbled for her in crayon, pencil, or ink, or plunked into type. She just knew I was a writer, and that one day everyone else would know, too. She is, no doubt, celebrating with my father, cheek to cheek, dancing in the great beyond.

At the heart of every word Ive written in this book is my son, Patrick. From the moment of his birth, he has been my greatest teacher, informing my understanding and deep appreciation of God, courage, truth, love, and the incongruity found in the power and fragility of life. He was a child with special needs who grew into a man of many special gifts. He is my hero, and the world is a better place because he is alive and well.

Lori, Jeff, Mark, Ron, and Rickfrom the youngest to the oldestthere has never been a way to escape their love and support at every turn of my life, even at times when I tried. I have been blessed to grow up in this large, loving Weible family, because I always knew that whenever I fell, there would be someone to pick me up, and love me just the same.

Jim Murphyif Ive not said it enough in the span of our lifetime of knowing one another, thank you for encouraging me to go back to college, for being a great father, and for sharing your wonderful parents, Anna and Jim, whom I still love as my own.

I thank my friend Laura Muench who inspired me to believe I could be more than one cranky old mans secretary (not that theres anything wrong with being a secretary, theres not; it was the cranky old man who was the problem). Nunzio EdwardI thank you for being a truly wonderful friend whose love and support helped keep me sane, relatively speaking.

My agent and friend Babette Perry paid attention for all the years I threw out one idea after another; I dont know why, since most of them fell flat, but she did. And it is because she listened, and believed in the possibility of this story, that it has come to life. She is a woman with an extraordinary heart and mind, and she manages to navigate the world of entertainment with an incomparable integrity and grace.

Lisa Sharkey had been on the job at HarperCollins for only a couple of weeks when I first got the call that she was interested in Life in Rewind. She knew Dr. Michael Jenike from her days as a television producer, and there is no one in whose hands this book would be better served than Lisas. She has been a great, intuitive guide throughout this process, and she gifted me with the perfect editor in Adam Korn. I watched as Adam fell in love with the story of Dr. Michael Jenike and Ed Zineit was a literary dance through which he led me safely to an intelligent compilation of words, sentences, and chapters that tell the story in the most compelling way possible. I thank him for his enormous patience and creativity.

To DuffI thank you for helping pick me up off the floor when I was thoroughly exhausted from writing this book.

And last, but certainly not least, to Michael Jenike, a man with whom I can always, most respectfully, agree to disagree, and still hopelessly admire. And Edyour genius is unfathomable, and I thank you for the long hours in which you honored and entrusted me with your beautiful story.