Margaret Morse's book Torrey's Miracle - A Matter of Choice is the story of her daughter Torrey's healing from an aggressive non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. It shares the alternative cancer therapy, IAT (Immuno-Augmentative Therapy) that Mrs. Morse and her husband chose for their daughter. It tells of the role their faith in God played in making this decision.
The author shares her belief that every person has a right to make choices. These choices include who we are, what we do, how we believe, and so on. One of those choices has to do with how one takes care of their health. She believes that each person has the right to make a choice about the treatment they might be given when this disease, cancer attacks. She believes that every choice a person makes comes out of love or out of fear.
Originally written under the title Choices A Journey Of Faith - Torrey's Miracle Mrs. Morse has traveled throughout her home state of Connecticut as well as Massachusetts, Vermont, Virginia, Illinois, Pennsylvania, and California promoting this first published work. She has spoken at Barnes and Noble bookstores, Border's Booksellers as well as individually owned bookstores.
She has spoken at local libraries, community organizations, churches, and individual homes to promote this book and to advocate the right of choice of the cancer patient. The highlight for her was speaking to 800 students and faculty of Greenville College, Greenville, IL, on October 25,1999.
A public television 51-minute interview entitled 'Choices An Alternative Cancer Therapy' with Mrs. Morse and her daughter, Torrey, was made in April 1999 and circulated throughout Connecticut, Vermont, Illinois, and North Dakota. Another 9-minute taped interview was done in February 2000 by 'The Exchange' public television, Channel 12, Norwalk, CT.
Reviews of this first work were done by the local community, newspaper, The Shore Line Times (April 1999); The New Haven Register, New Haven, CT (June 7, 1999); and The Connecticut Post, Bridgeport, CT (September 12, 1999). The People Against Cancer, a nationwide organization newsletter, OPTIONS (November 1999 Issue); The Guilford Courier and the Madison Source newspapers (February 2000); the Hartford Seminary PRAXIS May 2000 (Alumna newsletter); Greenville College, Greenville, IL RECORD spring 2000 (Alumna newsletter); the University of Hartford OBSERVER summer 2000 (Alumna newsletter); and the GOOD NEWS August - September 2000 (Episcopal Diocesan of Connecticut newsletter) have also done articles and/or reviews.)
A synopsis of this work and click-ins for web sites to alternative cancer treatments can also be seen on Mrs. Morse's personal web page http://torreysmiracle.homestead.com/files/choices.html