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Christine Hyung-Oak Lee woke up with a headache on New Years Eve 2006. By that afternoon, she saw the world quite literally upside down. By New Years Day, she was unable to form a coherent sentence. And after hours in the ER, days in the hospital, and multiple questions and tests, she learned that she had had a stroke. For months, Lee outsourced her memories to her notebook. It is from these memories that she has constructed this frank and compelling...
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In an infinitesimal tick of time, my life changed forever. I will tell you my story, and you decide, whether it was for the better or the worse. No one in my family had heard of it before. The words AVM (arteriovenous malformation) were to become part of their everyday language. Of course, as soon as other people heard what it was, everyone seemed to have a cousin, sister, or acquaintance who had suffered an AVM on one form or another. Unfortunately,...
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A writer's witty and surprisingly optimistic account of learning to live with Parkinson's disease.
When he was sixty-five, François Gravel was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, upending the old age he had imagined for himself. As a way of contemplating his new life with a degenerative illness, he turned to what he knew best and loved most: writing. Gravel immersed himself in research on Parkinson's, exploring its medical
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On the outside, John Parrish is a highly successful doctor, having risen to the top of his field as department head at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. Inside, however, he was so tortured by the memories of his tour of duty as a marine battlefield doctor in Vietnam that he was unable to live a normal life. In Autopsy of War, the author delivers an unflinching narrative chronicling his four-decade battle with the unseen enemy...
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Just before birdshot obliterated his spine and embedded in a lung, nine-year-old Lloyd didn't hear the crack of the shotgun.
Thrust from behind, his body lunged while he repeated the prayer, "I don't want to die." Bleeding on the floor, he passed out for the first time.
Paralyzed and already having endured hospital after hospital, fifteen-year-old Lloyd is relegated to The Crippled Children's Hospital in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania. A kind of Hotel...
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This autobiography is about a lady, who in spite of suffering a major brain haemorrhage, died at birth, revived and then survived. The hospital never admitted how catastrophic her brain damage had been, telling her young parents "...She's had a bad start, what do you expect..." To be told, bluntly, when she was 18 months old, "She has severe Cerebral Palsy... She won't make maturity...." She was only able to communicate with her Mum via eye movements,...
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What happens when you get a shattering diagnosis, receive devastating news or experience a life-altering event? Far too often we let the circumstances of our life dictate our happiness, our fruitfulness. We all-too-quickly give up our confidence, joy and purpose and exchange these for worry, doubt and fear... But it doesn't have to be that way. In this inspiring true story, you will read how to thrive no matter what life circumstances offer. Born...
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On the cusp of adulthood, a young writer's life is stalled as he faces cancer that keeps coming back.
Doctors used to tell him he was cured. That was a long time ago. Ever since he first left home at age nineteen, writer Jason Jobin has had cancer. Every five years, like clockwork, it relapses, and yet he always pulls through, surrounded by friends and family but isolated by illness. Chemotherapy, surgeries, radiation - these persist, but they...
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Five minutes changed my life forever...On October 4, 2018, I left my house five minutes early to head to work. A mile later, I was in a harrowing car accident that nearly took my life and sent me to the ICU with a fractured vertebrae. I spent the next two weeks in the hospital learning to walk again. This book chronicles my struggles, the compassion of others around me, my desire to be independent again, and healing as fast as I could while maintaining...
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Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a leading cause of death and disability among children and young adults in the United States. Each year, an estimated 1.5 million Americans sustain a TBI.
Roberta was living her best life as an empty nester until she received a call that would change her life forever. Her daughter Paige was hit by a vehicle in a crosswalk. Paige (front cover photo), an independent young adult, became dependent on her mother again....
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No solo covid por Claudio Calzoni
Hay enfermedades que priman en los medios y en las redes sociales mientras que otras muchas quedan relegadas y casi olvidadas, como si fueran pasajeras y poco debilitantes. Claudio Calzoni testimonia una de ellas a través de las notas de su diario, lleno de poesía y sufrimiento.
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Along Came a Stroke recounts Eileen Haas's personal experience-from the instant her stroke occurred, through her subsequent hospitalization, rehab, and beyond. This remarkable and inspiring story is recounted with humor, triumph, and honesty. Haas's indomitable spirit and keen insights shine throughout and will encourage anyone facing a life-changing event.
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What will you do upon waking up and discovering that you have two vaginas, two cervixes and two wombs? How would you feel? How do you explain it to your friends and family?
This and many other questions led to the story you are about to read. Elizabeth a young vibrant lady, full of life was just like many of you. However, she never knew that her challenging health journey as a young woman growing up was all part of the big discovery that would...
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This book provides a heartfelt insight into the life of a teenager with ADHD — How it feels to be labelled the 'naughty kid.' Molly Dridge leaves no stone unturned as she shares the ups, downs, chaos, and pitfalls of life with ADHD. She shares her school life: negotiating lessons, friendships, boyfriends and others, expectations surrounding these. This book is aimed at making those with ADHD/ADD feel less alone as well as providing an insight for...
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The Killilea family returns in the heartwarming sequel to national bestseller Karen With Love from Karen picks up five years after the conclusion of Karen, the miraculous and true story of a girl with cerebral palsy who triumphed against all odds. It follows the Killileas through Karen's teen years and into adulthood. Karen and her family continue to face seemingly insurmountable obstacles: They must fight for Karen's right to attend public school,...
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Winner of two Christopher Awards and the Golden Kite Award: This national bestseller is the true story of a girl with cerebral palsy and the family that wouldn't give up on her In 1940, when Karen Killilea was born three months premature and developed cerebral palsy, doctors encouraged her parents to put her in an institution and forget about her. At the time, cerebral palsy was considered untreatable, and institutionalization was the only recourse....
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Just before Christmas in 2012, at age fifty-three, John LeMieux lost his left leg to a recurrence of sarcoma. The unique twenty-hour rotationplasty surgery-never done on a man his age-was followed by six months of bed rest. It was only the beginning of years of physical, spiritual, and emotional growth. In this memoir, John recounts the lows and highs of a life forever altered.
As an aging, ex-college athlete, John was forced to confront a life where...
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Toute une vie contenue dans ces quelques pages.
La vie brisée de ma grand-mère maternelle qui a passé quarante années derrière les murs d'un asile d'aliénés, de 1928 à sa mort en 1965.
Comment le destin d'une jeune fille douée et pleine d'espérance a-t-il pu dériver vers l'enfermement définitif de la femme de 44 ans qu'elle était devenue ?
En lui redonnant la parole après des décennies de silence, j'ai tenté d'éclairer et de faire...
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When his small Honda is rear-ended by a much larger vehicle (traveling at 55 miles per hour), the Honda is demolished and while the small car's owner manages to walk away, he suffers extensive brain injury. His struggle to regain memory, sense of smell, vision without the aid of dark glasses, life without headaches, and the ability to cry, lasts several years. In that time the author of A Quest for Tears joins a large group of people also suffering...
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