Crashing through
Subtitle: a true story of risk, adventure, and the man who dared to see
By: Robert Kurson
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780739489475
Subjects: Blind; Patients; Eye; Surgery; Rehabilitation; Biography
Description: Writer Kurson tells the true story of one man's heroic odyssey from blindness into sight. Blinded at age three, Mike May defied expectations by breaking world records in downhill speed skiing, joining the CIA, and becoming a successful inventor, entrepreneur, and family man. He had never yearned for vision. Then, in 1999, a chance encounter: a revolutionary stem cell transplant surgery could restore May's vision. He began to contemplate an astonishing new world. Would music still sound the same? Would sex be different? Would he still be Mike May? The procedure was filled with risks. Even if it worked, fewer than twenty cases were known worldwide in which a person gained vision after a lifetime of blindness, and each of them suffered desperate consequences. There were countless reasons for May to pass. He could think of only a single reason to go forward: he knew it would change his life.--From publisher description.
Notes: This book is based, in part, on an article written by the author entitled "into the Light", which appeared in Esquire in June 2005.