| Edition |
First Paul Dry Books edition. |
| Description |
xii, 182 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
You've got a nerve -- Spineless -- Sweet chariot -- Hot-wired -- The bear and I. |
| Summary |
A hard, honest, and inspiring memoir about learning to walk again after a catastrophic injury. |
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"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 news? Jim's injury is incomplete: he has a two-year window for improvement. After three months of rehabilitation at the hospital, he and his wife, Jennifer, return to their home with an armada of equipment for his therapy, a heavy dose of anxiety about how they will manage together, and many unanswerable questions: Will Jim get better? What kind of future will they have? Can they move past denial to accept the possibility that Jim may remain a quadriplegic? [This book] portrays a man reclaiming his life from catastrophe--it is a book of exemplary courage"-- Amazon.com. |
| Subject |
Spinal cord -- Wounds and injuries -- Patients -- Rehabilitation.
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Linnell, James Ward -- Health.
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Spinal Cord Injuries -- rehabilitation.
(DNLM)D013119Q000534
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Health. (OCoLC)fst00952743
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Spinal cord -- Wounds and injuries -- Patients -- Rehabilitation.
(OCoLC)fst01129888
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| Genre/Form |
Personal Narrative. (DNLM)D062210
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| ISBN |
1589881354 paperback |
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9781589881358 paperback |
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