Resultados para "MEMO" en Enfermedad física y trastornos

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If you're writing about your life in real time, are you inherently fucked? Over the years that Chloé Caldwell had been married and hoping to conceive a child, she'd read everything she could find on infertility. But no memoir or message board reflected her experience; for one thing, most...

A Foreword Book of the Year in Autobiography/MemoirA Publishers Weekly Indie Top 20 selectionA Washington Post Best Book of 2009As Joe Thorndike loses both both memory and language, his son John moves in to look after him. Joe can no longer tell time or make a phone call, and forgets the names of people he has known for sixty years. He’s convinced that the governor of Massachusetts has come to visit and is in the refrigerator. He forgets that his bathroom has a toilet and uses the floor instead. As father and son are thrown together, their troubles draw them close.

Inconceivable combines memoir and investigative reporting to reveal an underground community of sperm donors and recipients who have chosen to circumvent traditional fertility avenues and meet up on their own terms. As an active participant in this community, Valerie Bauman uses her own story as...

Vad bestämmer vem du är? Hur kopplad är din identitet till ditt yttre? Hur mycket kontroll har din omgivning över dig? Skulle du fortsätta älska någon om de fick en annan kropp? Allting verkar lovande. Det är ett nytt skolår och Pelle ser fram emot att läsa sista året i grundskolan...

Det är en helt vanlig torsdag i mars 2012. Livet ler sig för Helle, den framgångsrika IT-nörden, när hon rider ut med sin häst Kalle. De rider en lång runda och när ekipaget närmar sig stallet händer det: olyckan som förändrar allt. Ingenting går som planerat och hon kämpar med sin...

"Pausad" är en självbiografi om författarens cancerresa från diagnosen, över den sju veckor långa behandlingen, till tillfrisknandet. Berättelsen handlar om hur ett cancerbesked bokstavligen sätter livet på paus, samt hur denna påtvingade time-out i slutändan kan leda till ett mer...

For newly diagnosed cancer patients, a uniquely comprehensive and empowering guide offering all the information needed to navigate critical early decisions with clarity, confidence, and a greater sense of control. "You have cancer." Few phrases hit harder—or leave you feeling more lost. Just...

Chemotherapy can make you feel like your body is no longer your own. Learn about the real experience from someone who has actually sat in the chemo chair and lived through the dread, the fatigue, the hair loss, the fear, the weirdness, and the dark humor of it all. This book offers what so many breast cancer patients and caregivers are desperate to find: an honest and deeply relatable account of what chemotherapy is really like, paired with the playlist that helped one cancer survivor keep going.

THE MULTI-MILLION COPY INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING GILLIAN ANDERSON AND JASON ISAACS "Polished, poignant... an inspiring story of true love."—Entertainment Weekly A BEST BOOK OF 2019, NPR's Book Concierge SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK AWARD The true story of a...

Over the years that Chloé Caldwell had been married and hoping to conceive a child, she’d read everything she could find on infertility. But no memoir or message board reflected her experience; for one thing, most stories ended with in vitro fertilization, a baby, or both. She wanted to offer something different. Caldwell began a book. She imagined a selective journal about her experience coping with stasis and uncertainty. Is it time to quit coffee, find a new acupuncturist, get another blood test? 

Just a Little Buzzed: A Life Told Sideways is a memoir about identity, reinvention, and discovering that sometimes the life you never planned becomes the one that finally feels like your own. With honesty, humor, and dry wit, Taira Soo shares the detours that shaped her life—from immigrating...

A coming-of-age memoir for modern times, Bleeder is the incredibly compelling tale of author Shelby Smoak. A hemophiliac, Smoak discovered he had been infected with HIV during a blood transfusion at the start of his college career. This devastating and destabilizing news led Smoak to see his world from an entirely new perspective, one in which life-threatening illness was perpetually just around the corner. Set in the 1990s along the North Carolina coast, Bleeder traces Smoak’s quest for love in a world that feels increasingly dangerous.

When twenty-six-year-old Lindsay Bartels is diagnosed with breast cancer, she also learns she is a carrier of the BRCA1 genetic mutation. To not pass on the cancer-causing gene, Lindsay and her husband undergo IVF, only to find themselves with three viable embryos: two healthy males and one...

In this powerful debut, Rebecca Dimyan details her experience with endometriosis, a chronic disease which effects one in ten women worldwide. This painful condition takes an average of seven years to be diagnosed and has no proven cure. Most women will undergo multiple surgeries, take countless painkillers and other drugs, and will still endure regular pain and other complications. With honesty, vulnerability, and sometimes humor, Dimyan explores the ways the condition has impacted her experiences, her body, her pain, and her joy.

A collision with a moose on a dark highway left Susan Mockler with an incomplete spinal injury, suddenly compromising her ability to walk and to care for herself. She spent months in a rehabilitation facility learning how to adjust to her new reality, and though her body partially recovered, every aspect of her life changed.

Doctors gave Vishwas one year to live - every year for 20 years. Six times it looked as though death was imminent. Despite living with HIV/AIDS for 35 years, he kept living an extraordinary life by every measure. Ten years after AIDS became survivable (thanks to anti-retroviral drugs), Vishwas faced a whole new life-threatening challenge. Listen in as he shares his amazing life in intimate detail with his psychologist (and with us) in this unique memoir.

Jeanette Lee was 18 years old when she walked into a New York City pool hall and became enamored by the elegant geometry of the game. Before long, she was an unmistakable figure on the international competition circuit, dressed head-to-toe in black, stalking the billiards table, and gazing down her cue as if tracking her prey. In this new memoir, the woman nicknamed “The Black Widow” opens up about her legendary career and the rich, unpredictable life she’s woven around it.

When Jane, a world-famous Harvard oncologist, suddenly collapses at work, the medical team resuscitating her makes a shocking discovery: she has advanced breast cancer that she’s been hiding for years. The results are catastrophic. In Sickness shows how even the most rational people can be nearly destroyed by their irrational fears. Tragic, moving, and wryly funny at times, this is an unflinching portrayal of a complicated marriage and its secrets.

In a series of unflinching vignettes laced with heartbreak and often with humor, Places in the Bone gives an unforgettable account of loss and survival, childhood secrets banished from memory, and the power of language to retrieve the missing parts of oneself and one’s past. Woven together with unmistakable lyricism, Carol Dine’s narrative moves back and forth in time and place - from the childhood bedroom that fills her with fear, to a hospital room after her surgery for breast cancer, to an adobe hut in a New Mexico artists’ colony where she escapes and finds her voice.