EVELYN TRIMBLE

Evelyn Trimble grew up in Cortland Manor, New York, and lives in Merrimack, New Hampshire with her three children, Jonathan, Kristen, and Jennifer. As a Licensed Nursing Assistant she worked in Nursing Homes, as well as Assisted Living Facilities in New Hampshire. Evelyn also works at a financial firm as a Senior Executive Assistant.

Evelyn enjoys helping others and designed this guide to help her friend, Scott, who lost his ability to speak due to a terminal illness. In doing so, she realized that this book could help residents that she worked with in nursing homes that had no method of communicating with the nurses, doctors, and their families. It is her hope that this tool will give people a way of communicating, and make their lives a lot easier while dealing with their illness.

She hopes that this book will be offered in all hospitals, nursing homes, and assisted living facilities to enable non-speaking patients to communicate with others.

Illustrator:

Kristen Trimble, daughter of Evelyn, lives in Merrimack, New Hampshire, and currently goes to Boston University to attain her bachelor s degree in Nutritional Science. She is on the pre-medicine track with hopes of becoming a family doctor.

As a caring daughter, sister, friend, and active community volunteer, Kristen has developed a passion for helping others. By illustrating this book, she hopes to ease communication within the healthcare community and between loving family members by providing patients with clear phrases to help them get across what they would like to say. Inability to speak should not prevent one from basic communication.