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Saving : a doctor's struggle to help his children / Shane Neilson.

by Neilson, Shane, 1975-

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Great Plains Publications, 2023.

616.890092 N414s

Neilson, Shane, 1975-

Neilson, Shane, 1975- -- Family.

Neilson, Shane, 1975- -- Mental health.

Poets -- Canada -- Biography.

Manic-depressive persons -- Biography.

Physicians -- Canada -- Biography.

9781773371030 (pbk.)

240 p. ; 23 cm.

"When his two-year old son develops epilepsy, Shane Neilson and his wife, Janet, struggle to obtain timely care for him while at the same time navigating their young daughter's diagnosis of childhood depression. His family's journey through a sometimes inadequate and often uncaring medical system is informed by Shane's personal history of bipolar disorder and his professional experience with disability as a practicing physician. With poetic language and imagery, Shane illustrated his personal experience of 'madness' and describes his struggles with neurodivergence from the point of view of both patient and practitioner. In this poignant memoir about fatherhood, illness, and family, Shane Neilson shows that it is possible to not only escape the wreckage of the past, but to celebrate living with disability in the present." --Back cover.

"Shane Neilson is a mad/autistic poet, physician and scholar. His creative and academic work concerns disability, neurodivergence, and madness. Shane is executive director of the first disability poetics festival in Canada. He lives in Guelph, Ont." --Back cover.

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