Uncomfortably numb
Subtitle: a memoir : the life-altering diagnosis of multiple sclerosis
By: Meredith O'Brien
Publisher: Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Deadwood, OR
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9781948018708
Copyright date: 2020
Subjects: Multiple sclerosis; Patients; Biography
Description: "About losing one's life as it was once imagined, and the ultimate, uneasy peace that's achieved with the permanent uncertainty which accompanies living with a chronic illness. It begins with numbness on her left leg. Then it spreads. Even though an MRI finds a 'mass' on her brainstem, it takes two more years for Meredith O'Brien to learn what is causing that numbness. Months after her 65-year-old mother dies from a fast-moving cancer, weeks after her father is hospitalized and she experiences an unexpected job change, she learns she has multiple sclerosis. Suddenly, Meredith, a married mother of three teens, has to figure out how to move forward into a life she no longer recognizes. Reimagining her life as a writer and an educator, as a mother and a spouse, she has to adjust to the restrictions MS imposes on her. It is a life, altered."--Back cover.
Notes: Bound in original white illustrated paper covers.$5sch