She had just experienced every parent\'s worst nightmare: the loss of a son.
These are only a few of the unbelievable events to happen in Atiya\'s life, which began as she was raised by a single mother with her sibling.
So what was the life-changing advice from her therapist? Writing therapy and dog adoption: the first is author Atiya Abdelmalik\'s autobiography, A Life Worth Saving: a Nurse\'s Journey from Sickness to Healing, while the other with the adoptions of Morkie Nemo and Maltese Dory.
She had just experienced every parent\'s worst nightmare: the loss of a son