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The defiant mind : living inside a stroke / Ron Smith.

by Smith, Ron, 1943 August 7-

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Ronsdale Press, c2016.

Smith, Ron, 1943 August 7-

Cerebrovascular disease

Cerebrovascular disease -- Patients -- Biography.

9781553804802 (hc)

1553804805 (hc)

xviii, 313 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

"What is a stroke?" This is the question that plagues Ron Smith as he emerges from the carpet bombing of his brain. The Defiant Mind: Living Inside a Stroke is a first-person account of a massive Ischemic stroke to the brain stem. Smith takes the reader inside the experience and shows how recuperation happens -- the challenges of communication, the barriers to treatment, the frustrations of being misunderstood and written-off, the role of memory in recovering identity, the power of continuing therapy, and the passionate will to live. Full of arresting anecdotes, enlivened by a vivid and vigorous style, the book tells of successes and failures and draws on the newest research in stroke treatment. This is a necessary book for stroke survivors still dealing with the effects of their trauma and for care-givers, vital to the process of recuperation, who feel hampered and harried by concern and confusion."--Back cover

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