TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smith,Ron
TI  - The defiant mind: living inside a stroke 
AV  - RC388 .D445 2016
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Vancouver, BC
PB  - Ronsdale Press
KW  - Smith, Ron,
KW  - Cerebrovascular disease
KW  - Popular works
KW  - Patients
KW  - Biography
KW  - Brain
KW  - Congestion
KW  - Cerebrovascular Disorders
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - "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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