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Don't Leave Me This Way: Or When I Get Back on My Feet You'll Be Sorry
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Hardcover: 352 pages Publisher: Harper; First Edition edition (June 13, 2006) Language: English ISBN-10: 0061120618
ISBN-13: 978-0061120619 Product Dimensions: 6 x 1.1 x 9 inches Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and
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Book Description
Just an ordinary day . . . You get up, fix breakfast for your three-year-old son, drive yourself to work -- a day like any
other. You're running late for a meeting, and as you hurry down the hall, the light is getting brighter and brighter, and
suddenly your vision explodes and . . . you're gone. When you wake up, you're in a hospital bed. You can't talk, move your
left side, or get out of bed. You can't comb your own hair, much less walk to the bathroom. You've had a massive brain
hemorrhage. Your doctors tell you you're lucky to be alive. Even though they don't know the cause of your hemorrhage,
they tell you whatever it is, it's incurable and you'll most likely die. But then they tell you the good news: If you do live
and manage to get into a wheelchair, at least you can always find parking. Julia Fox Garrison refused to listen to the
professionals she called Dr. Jerk, Dr. Panic, and Nurse Doom. She clung to the advice of the kind and gifted Dr. Neuro,
who told her "I have to treat your mind as well as your body." After many months in the hospital and then rehab, after
coping with the shock of learning what had caused her stroke, and with the help of family and friends and her own
indomitable spirit, Julia not only got into a wheelchair, she got back out and learned to walk again. Funny, touching, and
profoundly moving, Don't Leave Me This Way is the true story of a woman's fight for her life -- and for her dignity -- as
she struggles to overcome the debilitating effects of her stroke. She battles an entrenched medical community with wit and
grit, challenging her doctors to always remember that she's a human being and to think beyond the pages of their textbooks
and show her the encouragement and optimism that she knows is going to make the difference between life and death.