Everyone Has An Everest is a story of inspiration! If you are looking to be revitalized and renewed, you must read this book. In it the author tells of her 12 year battle with Parkinson's disease. She explains how the disease took her health, her job, her car, her life's savings and her insurance. Ms. Andrews is also an educator with 31 years of experience. The book graphically describes her experiences as an inner city elementary school principal and how she changed a school who had five principals in five years. How she dealt with the debilitating disease and never missed a day of school. It will be useful to Parkinson patients and care givers because it gives specific information on how to obtain social security disability status, how to obtain food stamps, how to get Medicaid, how to deal with depression, Parkinson's Advocates and lobbying legislators. And most importantly, it describes the operation that gave her a second chance at life.