Gracefully Broken is a literary work that bears hope and insight for ALS patients, their families, medical professionals and anyone else who crosses paths with this life shattering disease.

Imagine being in the prime of your life, when all of a sudden, your body just starts weakening and your voice starts slurring for no known reason. Then after many medical tests and visits, and barely now being able to walk or speak, you find out that you have ALS. Lennis was so determined to bring the reader through each stage of her honest and emotional journey with ALS, that she completed most of this memoir with one finger due to the debilitating affects the disease had on her hands. This book also provides invaluable advice that stems not only from her experience as an ALS patient but also as a seasoned nurse. She named the book Gracefully Broken because the disease was unsuspected and seemed to progress gracefully over time. She gives all glory to God for gifting her with the determination and ability to complete this inspiring work.

Lennis Marlene deVere was born in Newark, NJ on December 27,1958 to two loving and hard-working parents. She is the middle child of two brothers and three sisters. Later in life she married her husband, Leonard deVere and birthed two children; Michael and Tara. Although Lennis worked as a nurse for almost two decades, she has held many other titles throughout her career, including: counselor, poet, playwright, theater director, marketing manager, legal assistant and real estate agent. She has a passion for the arts and has always found ways to combine that with her deeply rooted faith and love for God. Lennis vividly describes her life changing challenge from being vibrant and active, to becoming completely crippled in the prime of her life to this debilitating disease.