Walking papers
Subtitle: the accident that changed my life and the business that got me back on my feet
By: Francesco Clark
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Hyperion
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9781401323431
Subjects: Autobiography; Skin; Skin Care; Economics; Quadriplegia; Experimental Therapeutics; Patients; Businessmen; Herbal cosmetics; Rehabilitation; Wounds and injuries; Care and hygiene; Physical therapy; Investigational Therapies; Diving accidents; Adverse effects; Spinal cord; Spinal Injuries; Quadriplegics; Diving; Biography
Description: The author describes his inspiring recovery after a late-night dive into the shallow end of a pool rendered him paralyzed from the neck down, a recovery that has shattered the dim prospects his doctors predicted and also yielded a successful skin-care business, Clark's Botanicals.
Table of contents: title: Foreword by Alexandra Reeve Givens; title: Prologue; title: Baby steps. Before ; Breathing, somehow ; I sing, therefor I breathe ; Unhooked ; Starting therapy ; The new routine ; Jumping the curb ; Madonna ; Mrs. Mulleavy ; Moving on ; Adaptation ; The elephant in the room ; One year on; title: The next step. Hey, look who's walking! ; A doctor's son ; The Reeve effect ; Learning to stand my ground ; Touchdown ; Post-op ; Detroit; title: Stepping out. What now? ; Jasmine absolute ; What do you want to do today? ; Connecting the dots ; Twenty-nine ; The new sensation ; The Reeve Foundation ; Regeneration; title: Epilogue: Here today.