| Edition |
Large print edition. |
| Description |
335 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 22 cm. |
| Physical Medium |
large print (16 point) rdafs |
| Series |
Thorndike Press large print biography and memoir |
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Thorndike Press large print biographies and memoirs.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-350). |
| Summary |
"Sarah Ruhl has just survived a high- risk pregnancy when she discovers the left side of her face is paralyzed. She is assured that 95 percent of Bell's palsy patients experience a full recovery. But Sarah is in the unlucky 5 percent. So Ruhl begins a decade-long search for a cure while grappling with the reality of her new face. In a series of meditations, Ruhl chronicles her journey. She explores the struggle of a body yearning to match its inner landscape, the pain postpartum depression, being a playwright and working mom to three small children, and the desire for a resilient spiritual life in the face of illness"-- Back cover. |
| Contents |
Twins -- Opening night -- Bed rest -- The itch -- Bell's palsy -- Sir Charles Bell and the Greeks -- The NICU -- A brief digression on my Catholic God -- The NICU, continued -- Home -- Smile! -- Actors and mothers -- The Duchenne -- Still face and the Tony Awards -- The Mona Lisa and illness as metaphor -- Three children under the age of five and three kinds of vomit -- All the crying Mashas and the concept of a good side -- Show me what you've got -- The observer and the observed -- Celiac disease, or I remember bagels -- Childhood illness and the symmetry of siblings -- Can you have postpartum depression two years after having babies? -- Refuge -- I can only imagine -- Lizard eye, or kill the ingenue -- Hermione, the frozen statue -- The neurosurgeon who liked Irishwomen -- The good doctor and gratitude -- Ding-dong, ding-dong, or grow accustomed to your face -- Mirror neurons and narcissus -- The fortune cookie -- A woman slowly gets better. |
| Subject |
Ruhl, Sarah, 1974-
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Facial paralysis -- Biography.
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Dramatists, American -- 21st century -- Biography.
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Large type books.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Medical (incl. Patients).
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Ruhl, Sarah, 1974- (OCoLC)fst01928697
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Dramatists, American. (OCoLC)fst00897556
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Facial paralysis. (OCoLC)fst00919601
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| Chronological Term |
2000-2099
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| Genre/Form |
Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
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Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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Autobiographies.
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| ISBN |
9781432892296 (large print ; hardcover) |
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1432892290 (large print ; hardcover) |
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