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Brown, Ricky Monahan

 
9781912240449: Stroke: 5% chance of survival
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1912240440 ISBN 13 : 9781912240449
Editeur : Sandstone Press, 2019

Synopsis

The day after losing his job in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, Ricky suffers a catastrophic haemorrhagic stroke. Fortunately, his girlfriend Beth is nearby. A few minutes later, the unconscious Ricky is wheeled into Brooklyn's Methodist Hospital with a 5% chance of survival, and worse odds of any type of good outcome. Beth begins an eight-week vigil, grabbing an occasional nap on a waiting room floor. Then Hurricane Sandy does to New York what the haemorrhage did to Ricky's brain. Amid the rubble of a battered city, brain injury, and lost jobs, Beth and Ricky start planning for a future together. After all, this is a love story.

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À propos de l'auteur

Ricky Monahan Brown suffered a massive haemorrhagic stroke in 2012. Doctors gave him a one-in-twenty chance of a good outcome, where a good outcome would be surviving in a non-vegetative, non-plegic state. During recovery, Ricky realised he had stories to tell. His writing has subsequently been published in books, magazines, journals and newspapers. Ricky received a Stroke Association Life After Stroke Award for Creative Arts in 2016, and his night of live literature and music Interrobang!? won the 2017 Saboteur Award for Best Spoken Word Night in Britain. He lives in Edinburgh with his wife and their son.

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Éditeur
Sandstone Press
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1912240440
ISBN 13 
9781912240449
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
224
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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