Life on Cripple Creek
Subtitle: Essays On Living with Multiple Sclerosis
Publisher: Demos Medical Pub., LLC
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 162
ISBN-13: 9781934559215
Subjects: Dean Kramer
Description: How would you pick out a pair of shoes when aesthetics can no longer be the driving force behind your decision, yet you aren't ready to dress like your elderly neighbor? What would you do if, after boarding your scooter in the morning and making your way to the raspberry patch behind your house, you stumbled upon a hornets' nest? Discover what it's like to live with multiple sclerosis, to laugh at MS, to come to terms with a disease that demands so much of your life. Most of the books and other informative material currently available on MS miss the emotional mark. People in the MS community a.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Table of Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Summer; The Stress Paradox; The Pitfalls of Good Health; Never Forget to Remember; Push Comes to Shove; First Interlude: Contemplation; Who Do I Think I Am?; Out of My Mind; Chicken Little and the Terminator; Who's the Dummy?; The Dreamer; Fall; Everyday Heroes; The Jacket; The Turkey; After the Fall; Second Interlude: Motion; She Flies Through the Air; In the Closet; If the Shoe Fits; Cleanliness is Next to Impossible; You Wear What You Eat; Winter; Demolition Shopping; Making a List; On Turning Fifty.; title: Observation On the Search for CompanionshipThird Interlude: Community; Turn About; Doctor, Doctor; The Uncertainty Principle; Walk This Way; Spring; Shifting Gears on Shifting Sands; Acme Bowling Balls; The Abyss; The Red Pony.