Overcome
Subtitle: burned, blinded, and blessed
By: Carmen Blandin Tarleton
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Writers of the Round Table Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Highland Park, IL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9781939418111
Subjects: Chemical burns; Biography; Patients; Burns and scalds; Disfigured persons; People with visual disabilities; Abused women; Marital violence; Rape in marriage
Description: "On June 10, 2007, Carmen Blandin Tarleton's estranged husband broke into her rural Vermont home, beat her with a baseball bat, and doused her with industrial-strength lye ... Tarleton spent the next three and a half months in a medically induced coma, and when she awoke, it was to an unimaginable reality: she was blind and permanently disfigured, with burns covering more than eighty percent of her body. Her recovery would include months of painful rehab, dozens of surgeries, and total dependence on family, friends, and strangers for physical and financial care. With so much taken away, no one could have anticipated what Tarleton would gain from her experience: an awakening. A purpose. Joy. By sharing her struggles and ultimate victory over catastrophic loss, Tarleton proves that life is a choice--and, in the process, offers a rare glimpse into the best and worst corners of the human heart."--
Table of contents: title: The bright and unknowable future; title: Newlyweds; title: Distance of miles and souls; title: The weight of things unsaid; title: lost; title: Harbingers of change; title: Fire within; title: Limbo; title: Life is a choice; title: Homecoming; title: A world dimmed; title: Viewer discretion; title: Vanquishing the enemy; title: Justice; title: I once was blind; title: Night is darkest; title: Greatest gift; title: Phoenix; title: Freedom; title: Living out loud; title: Facing forward; title: Let it go.