The defiant mind : living inside a stroke /

Smith, Ron, 1943 August 7-

The defiant mind : living inside a stroke / Ron Smith. - First edition. - Vancouver, BC : Ronsdale Press, (c)2016. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover Page; Praise for The Defiant Mind; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; One: Haphazard: In Denial; Two: The Room at the End of the Hall; Three: A Bear of Very Little Brain; Four: My Travels Begin; Five: A Mind in Mutiny: Holding on through Memory; Six: The Swallow Lady; Seven: The Wheelchair and the Urinal; Eight: Jack the Bird Man; Nine: Home, Therapy and Forest Bathing; Ten: Fragments: Searching for Normality; Eleven: Recovery: Some Final Thoughts; Select Bibliography; Acknowledgements; About the Author.

"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 --



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Cerebrovascular disease--Popular works.
Cerebrovascular disease--Patients--Biography.
Brain--Congestion.
Cerebrovascular disease.
Cerebrovascular Disorders


Electronic Books.

RC388 / .D445 2016