Download or read book One Man His Stroke written by Jose Gopal and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2005-11 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My journey through my stroke, from the initial stage, the rehab, my hopes & fears, my fight continues and the fight of fellow stroke survivors.
Download or read book Between Heaven and Hell written by David Talbot and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed writer, bestselling author, and founder of Salon magazine, David Talbot has brought us masterful and explosive headline-breaking stories for over 25 years with books like the New York Times bestsellers Brothers, The Devil's Chessboard, and nationally recognized Season of the Witch. Now for the first time, journalist and historian David Talbot turns inward in this intimate journey through the life-changing year following his stroke, a year that turned his life upside down, and ultimately, saved him. • A portrait of how a health crisis can truly shift one's perspective on life and purpose • Includes insider stories on the wild early days of Internet journalism, tech culture, and Hollywood • Powerful storytelling of the physical, emotional, and psychological impact a stroke has had on the author's identity Fans of My Stroke of Insight, The Devil's Chessboard and Season of the Witch will love this book. This book is perfect for: • Fans of David Talbot • Anyone dealing with or recovering from health issues (particularly stroke or brain injury) and looking for insight and inspiration • Gen Xers and baby boomers who understand their risk for stroke • Entrepreneurs scared of burnout
Download or read book Navigating the Complexities of Stroke written by Louis R. Caplan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in association with the American Academy of Neurology.
Download or read book Whole Brain Living written by Jill Bolte Taylor and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2022-08-09 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times best-selling author of My Stroke of Insight blends neuroanatomy with psychology to show how we can short-circuit emotional reactivity and find our way to peace. For half a century we have been trained to believe that our right brain hemisphere is our emotional brain, while our left brain houses our rational thinking. Now neuroscience shows that it’s not that simple: in fact, our emotional limbic tissue is evenly divided between our two hemispheres. Consequently, each hemisphere has both an emotional brain and a thinking brain. In this groundbreaking new book, Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor—author of the New York Times bestseller My Stroke of Insight—presents these four distinct modules of cells as four characters that make up who we are: Character 1, Left Thinking; Character 2, Left Emotion; Character 3, Right Emotion; and Character 4, Right Thinking. Everything we think, feel, or do is dependent upon brain cells to perform that function. Since each of the Four Characters stems from specific groups of cells that feel unique inside of our body, they each display particular skills, feel specific emotions, or think distinctive thoughts. In Whole Brain Living, available in paperback for the first time, Dr. Taylor blends neuroanatomy with psychology to help us: Get acquainted with our own Four Characters, observe how they show up in our daily life, and learn to identify and relate to them in others as well Apply the wisdom of the Four Characters to every area of life—from work to relationships to health Use a powerful practice called the Brain Huddle—a tool for bringing our Four Characters into conversation with one another—to short-circuit emotional reactivity, tap our characters’ respective strengths, and choose which one to embody in any situation The more we become familiar with each of the characters in ourselves and others, the more power we gain over our thoughts, our feelings, our relationships, and our lives. Indeed, we discover that we have the power to choose who and how we want to be in every moment. And when our Four Characters work together and balance one another as a whole brain, we gain a radical new road map to deep inner peace.
Download or read book Out of the Fog Undo written by Pamela Power and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2017-11-29 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Pat Riggs suffered a brain-stem stroke, he was left paralyzed with his mental abilities and memory intact. In the intensive care unit, Riggs and his wife, Jean, learned to communicate via a basic but effective method: blink once for no and twice for yes. They talked using this method for many weeks until a speech therapist at a nursing home found a more sophisticated method for him to express his ideas, thoughts, and feelings. Relying on the words of Riggs and on interviews with his wife, the author shares how the couple tackled the medical malpractice that contributed to the severity of his condition as well as the emotional and psychological challenges that dominated their last four years together. Riggs remained the strong, driven man who rose from being a low-level manager to a senior vice president of a large company on Wall Street in New York. Despite his condition, writing helped him find hope and faith as he tried to make his way Out of the Fog.
Download or read book Out of the Fog written by Pamela Power and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2017-11-29 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Pat Riggs suffered a brain-stem stroke, he was left paralyzed with his mental abilities and memory intact. In the intensive care unit, Riggs and his wife, Jean, learned to communicate via a basic but effective method: blink once for no and twice for yes. They talked using this method for many weeks until a speech therapist at a nursing home found a more sophisticated method for him to express his ideas, thoughts, and feelings. Relying on the words of Riggs and on interviews with his wife, the author shares how the couple tackled the medical malpractice that contributed to the severity of his condition as well as the emotional and psychological challenges that dominated their last four years together. Riggs remained the strong, driven man who rose from being a low-level manager to a senior vice president of a large company on Wall Street in New York. Despite his condition, writing helped him find hope and faith as he tried to make his way Out of the Fog.
Download or read book Right Hemisphere Stroke written by Fred K. Johnson and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Right Hemisphere Stroke, Fred Johnson describes in vivid prose the onset of his devastating stroke and the obstacles he overcame during his therapy, giving a patient's view of a first-class rehabilitation institute. Johnson pays particular attention to the personality changes and the problems of disorientation he experienced. He poignantly captures the bewilderment and terror so often felt by stroke patients in the hospital and upon returning home. In telling his story, Johnson provides valuable insights about the effects of stroke and, along the way, calls into question some traditionally held conclusions about the functions of the brain's right hemisphere. The book is important in other ways. As Dr. John Gilroy states in his foreword, Fred Johnson's account moves us to realize that a "stroke affects the brain as a whole, and patients should be treated for brain dysfunction, not hemisphere deficits." Moreover, for Gilroy the book underscores the need for better communication with the patient. With most diseases, health care professionals freely discuss present or anticipated problems with patients and family. In cases of stroke, however, there is a great deal of resistance to sharing the complex problems that arise. Fred Johnson's book is valuable, then, not only as a testament to the courage and determination of one man but also for the lessons it provides for medical students and health care professionals.
Download or read book My Year Off written by Robert McCrum and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 1998. "To all concerned, this book is meant to send a ghostly signal across the dark universe of ill-health that says 'you are not alone.'" - Robert McCrum On July 29, 1995, Robert McCrum, 42, married only ten weeks, suffered a paralyzing stroke. Overnight, his life shifted irrevocably. But this admired novelist and former editorial director of the London publishing house Faber and Faber decided to chronicle what became a remarkable journey "into that mysterious, unexplored territory, the neighbourly world of the unwell," as well as a deeply moving love story.
Download or read book Stroke No Joke written by Luther Moore and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2015-09-04 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stroke no joke is the autobiography of a middle aged African American man who navigates the process of reclaiming and re- finding his life it provides an insightful look into the mind of a once strong independent man after he suffered a serious stroke that changes his life forever. As he struggles through his rehabilitation and along the way indentifies a new strength and purpose in his life. This book offers inspirational insight into the power of the mind and the self commitment of the human spirit to overcome the physical and the mental sense of hopelessness. most importantly it connects one man`s resolution to self motivation that focuses on his recovery and the means to overcome the physical barriers that stands in his way. This story brings to light the strength of the human spirit the struggles to survive and the ability of one man to share his recovery story. It`s the mystery of life that has sustained me since the stroke
Download or read book My Stroke of Insight written by Jill Bolte Taylor and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-05-12 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Transformative...[Taylor's] experience...will shatter [your] own perception of the world."—ABC News The astonishing New York Times bestseller that chronicles how a brain scientist's own stroke led to enlightenment On December 10, 1996, Jill Bolte Taylor, a thirty-seven- year-old Harvard-trained brain scientist experienced a massive stroke in the left hemisphere of her brain. As she observed her mind deteriorate to the point that she could not walk, talk, read, write, or recall any of her life-all within four hours-Taylor alternated between the euphoria of the intuitive and kinesthetic right brain, in which she felt a sense of complete well-being and peace, and the logical, sequential left brain, which recognized she was having a stroke and enabled her to seek help before she was completely lost. It would take her eight years to fully recover. For Taylor, her stroke was a blessing and a revelation. It taught her that by "stepping to the right" of our left brains, we can uncover feelings of well-being that are often sidelined by "brain chatter." Reaching wide audiences through her talk at the Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) conference and her appearance on Oprah's online Soul Series, Taylor provides a valuable recovery guide for those touched by brain injury and an inspiring testimony that inner peace is accessible to anyone.
Download or read book A Stroke of Faith written by Mark Moore and published by FaithWords. This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Moore always believed he was in charge of his life. All that changed on a beautiful Saturday morning in May 2007. Suddenly he was no longer in control of anything. Though his life will never return to his pre-stroke normality, through this crisis, he has gained a deeper understanding of the centrality of God's role in his life and in all of our lives. A Stroke of Faith tells the story of moving from acceptance to surrender and from hope to faith. It reveals God's work in Mark's life as He transformed him from thinking he had everything under control to knowing God has had control all along.
Download or read book The Man who Lost His Language written by Sheila Hale and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Sir John Hale suffered a stroke that left him unable to walk, write or speak, his wife, Shelia, followed every available medical trail seeking knowledge of his condition and how he might be restored to health. This book is a unique exploration of aphasia - losing the ability to use or comprehend words - as well as of the resilience of love.
Download or read book A STROKE AND I written by Joanna Barnes and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I lived in a town in the county of Surrey called Addlestone. This is getting bigger every year because of the building of houses and the growth of the population of people, but everything has to change, doesn’t it? When I get to the stage of going gray, I will go gray naturally and not bother hiding it because I think that going gray is part of growing older, and that is part of life. This is my life story.
Download or read book The Story That the Keg Told Me and The Story of the Man Who Didn t Know Much written by W. H. H. Murray and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Story That the Keg Told Me, and The Story of the Man Who Didn't Know Much" by W. H. H. Murray. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book A Stroke of Malice written by Anna Lee Huber and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lady Kiera Darby and her husband Sebastian Gage are looking forward to celebrating with new friends at an exciting yearly soiree, but they soon learn that murder never takes a holiday in the latest riveting installment in this national bestselling series. January 1832. After enjoying a delightful few weeks with her family, expectant mother Kiera and Sebastian Gage have been invited to the Duchess of Bowmontʼs Twelfth Night party in Traquair, Scotland. Though she normally avoids such fashionable, rambunctious events, Kiera is ready to join in the festive merrymaking. But upon their arrival at the opulent estate, it becomes obvious that all is not merry in their hostess’s home. The family appears to be under a great strain, and someone seems determined to cause mayhem among the guests with a series of forged notes. Matters swiftly turn from irksome to downright deadly when the partygoers stumble upon a decomposing body in the castleʼs crypt. The corpse is thought to be the duchessʼs son-in-law who had purportedly traveled to Paris more than a month earlier. It is evident the man met with foul play, and Kiera and Gage soon realize that a ruthless murderer walks among them—and may well be a member of the duchessʼs own family. And when the investigation takes a treacherous turn, Kiera discovers just how deep the killer is willing to dig to keep their secrets from ever seeing the light of day.
Download or read book Still Here written by Ram Dass and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-06-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than thirty years ago, an entire generation sought a new way of life, looking for fulfillment and meaning in a way no one had before. Leaving his teaching job at Harvard, Ram Dass embodied the role of spiritual seeker, showing others how to find peace within themselves in one of the greatest spiritual classics of the twentieth century, the two-million-copy bestseller Be Here Now. As many of that generation enter the autumn of their years, the big questions of peace and of purpose have returned demanding answers. And once again, Ram Dass blazes a new trail, inviting all to join him on the next stage of the journey.
Download or read book Shadowboxing written by William G. Robertson and published by . This book was released on 2009-07-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On March 15, 1994, William G. Robertson suffered a massive stroke. He was transported to a regional medical center and lapsed into unconsciousness. Doctors told gathering family he might not make it through the night. But William survived. Today, he lives a full and rewarding life. The stroke robbed him of his career, a long-term relationship and the ability to drive or participate in hobbies he enjoyed. Yet, he believes the event left him a better man. Shadowboxing is an informative and entertaining view of his battle back to the light. It will inspire others recovering from a brain injury, their families and all those who revel in the triumph of the human spirit.
