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Healed by horses : a memoir / Carole Fletcher ; with Lawrence Scanlan.

by Fletcher, Carole.

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Atria Press, c2005.

798.23092 F612h

Fletcher, Carole.

Burns and scalds -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.

Burns and scalds -- Patients -- Rehabilitation.

Horsemanship -- Therapeutic use.

0743476328 (alk. paper)

1st Atria Books hardcover ed.

246 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

"Carole Fletcher's story opens on a November morning in 1975. She began this day as a striking young teacher in a happy relationship; a horse lover and car enthusiast -- ultimately, a young woman eager for what lay ahead. But a gasoline explosion changed all that, leaving her with second- and third-degree burns over sixty-five percent of her body. At day's end, surgeons warned she had a one-in-ten chance of surviving the night and that even if she did, it would be more than likely she would never walk again -- let alone ride a horse. Carole surprised everyone: her family, her doctors, even herself. After seven months in the hospital and twenty-eight skin graft surgeries, she began to ride her beloved horse, Bailey. Thanks to the therapeutic nature of riding, she slowly regained almost full use of her legs"--Inside flap.

Scanlan, Lawrence.

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