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"From Chloé Cooper Jones--Pulitzer Prize finalist, philosophy professor, Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant recipient--a groundbreaking memoir about disability, motherhood, and a journey to far-flung places in search of a new way of seeing and being seen. "I am in a bar in Brooklyn, listening to two men, my friends, discuss whether my life is worth living." So begins Chloé Cooper Jones's bold, revealing account of moving through the world in a body...
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As a powerfully built, third-year tight end with the Buffalo Bills, Kevin Everett had it all, a promising NFL future, a beautiful girlfriend whom he planned to marry, and an engaging personality that made him one of his team's most popular players. He also had a wonderful family that included his devoted mother and his three adoring younger sisters, for whom he had recently purchased a home in suburban Houston, Texas. And then, in a fraction of a...
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Andrea Buchanan lost her mind while crossing the street one day. Suffering from a horrible cough, she inhaled the cold March air, and choked. She was choking on a lot that day. A sick child. A pending divorce. The guilt of failing, as a partner, as a mother. Relieved when the coughing abated, she thought it was over. She could not have been more wrong.
When Andrea coughed that day, a small tear was ripped in her dura mater, the membrane that covers...
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NIH publication volume no. 17-916
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health
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2017.
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English
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"Imagine the horror of waking from a deep sleep to the reality of a horrific situation that was not a dream. The reality is man’s worst nightmare. Trapped in his own body unable to move or to speak, Billy Keenan learns from his hospital bed that his last memory of riding the crest of a wave and heading towards shore on that beautiful September morning would be the last moment of his life as he had once lived it. His only desire upon waking is to...
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NIH publication volume no. 03-160
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Office of Communications and Public Liaison, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health
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[2003]
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English
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The Experiment
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[2021]
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English
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"Make the fullest possible recovery after neurological injury with this definitive guide -- by a doctor and spinal cord injury survior who's been there. After an accident that left him permanently paralyzed over ten years ago, Dr. Bradford Berk made it his mission to help others recover from acute neurological injury (ANI). As the founder and director of the University of Rochester Neurorestoration Institute, he brings his abundant experience in working...
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Paul Dry Books
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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A hard, honest, and inspiring memoir about learning to walk again after a catastrophic injury.
"Six months shy of retirement and on a family vacation in Mexico, Jim Linnell steps off the porch of a rented guest house and breaks his neck. He is medevaced to his hometown hospital in Albuquerque and from there to a spinal cord injury hospital in Denver, where he learns he may live the rest of his life as a quadriplegic. How does a person absorb such...
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Virgil Films
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[2021]
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English
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A feature-length documentary that explores the resilience and perspective of Chris Norton. In October 2010 at age eighteen, Chris suffered a debilitating spinal cord injury during a college football game. Doctors gave him just a three percent chance to ever move again. But he defied that diagnosis. After years of physical therapy and training, Chris' story went viral in 2015 when he successfully walked across the college graduation stage with the...
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Omnigraphics, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"Provides basic consumer health information about spinal pain, injuries, and related disorders, facts about preventing back and neck pain, maintaining spinal health, self-care, pain management, rehabilitative care, chiropractic care, spinal surgeries, along with preventative suggestions, a glossary of related terms, and a directory of resources"--
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Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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"From Chloé Cooper Jones--Pulitzer Prize finalist, philosophy professor, Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant recipient--a groundbreaking memoir about disability, motherhood, and a journey to far-flung places in search of a new way of seeing and being seen. "I am in a bar in Brooklyn, listening to two men, my friends, discuss whether my life is worth living." So begins Chloé Cooper Jones's bold, revealing account of moving through the world in a body...