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Blindsided [sound recording] : lifting a life above illness : a reluctant memoir / Richard Cohen.

by Cohen, Richard M.

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Harper Audio, p2003.

COMPACT DISC 362.196834 C678b

Cohen, Richard (Richard M.) -- Health.

Multiple sclerosis -- Patients -- Biography.

Parents with disabilities -- Biography.

Sick -- Psychology.

[sound recording] :

6 compact sound discs (5:30 hrs) : digital ; 12 cm.

"Illness came calling when Richard M. Cohen was twenty-five years old. He was a young television news producer with expectations of a limitless future, and his foreboding that his health was not quite right turned into the harsh reality that something was very wrong when he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. For thirty years Cohen has done battle with MS, only to be ambushed by two bouts of colon cancer at the end of the millennium. And yet, he has written a hopeful book about celebrating life and coping with chronic illness. "Welcome to my world," writes Cohen, "where I carry around dreams, a few diseases, and the determination to live life my way. This book is my daily conversation with myself, a chronicle of the struggles in that exotic place just north of the neck. At the moment, my attitude checks out well. I do believe I'm winning." Autobiographical at its roots, reportorial, and expansive, Blindsided explores the effects of illness on raising three children and on his relationship with his wife, Meredith Vieira (host of ABC's The View and the syndicated Who Wants To Be A Millionaire). Cohen tackles the nature of denial and resilience, the ins and outs of the struggle for emotional health, and the redemptive effects of a loving family. And while he may not have chosen to live with illness, illness did choose him."--Container.

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