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Book Raises Funds for Health Care August 21, 2002 John Thompson and Paula Crain Grosinger, authors of Home in One Piece, announce that sales of their book have raised over three thousand dollars for area health care organizations. Home in One Piece was printed by a Fargo publisher in 2001 and became a regional bestseller. Thompson and Grosinger retain the rights to the book detailing Thompson's experiences after he lost both arms in a farm accident. Grosinger and Thompson collaborated for nearly three years. The result is an electrifying story documenting Thompson's survival and personal struggles following the loss of his arms in a power take-off accident on his family farm. When Home in One Piece was launched in late 2001, Thompson and Grosinger committed to using the book to increase awareness about the need for blood donors and rural emergency medical services. The pair designated fifty cents of their share of the proceeds from each book sold to assist United Blood Services with donor recruitment. Grosinger worked with numerous trauma victims in the hospital setting. "A lot of my patients had severe debilitating injuries such as quadriplegia, paraplegia and head injuries," says Grosinger. "Tragically, like John's injury, most of their injuries could have been prevented." Thompson and Grosinger sold a number of copies on their own. From those proceeds they report making over $2,800 in cash donations to area hospitals, the State Emergency Medical Services Association, and blood banks in Minnesota and South Dakota. According to the authors over $2,500 more has been collected by the Fargo publisher for area blood banks. A portion of those funds has already been distributed bringing the total cash donations to date to over $3,200. Thompson and Grosinger say they hope to print a second edition of Home in One Piece within the next year. They say they will continue to promote issues like blood donor awareness and farm safety.