An active mother, wife, and sportswoman until felled by two massive strokes in 1967, the author presents a vivid, moving memoir of how she learned to communicate through a computer and her painful recovery of hope.
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Da: Zoom Books East, Glendale Heights, IL, U.S.A.
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Da: Bay State Book Company, North Smithfield, RI, U.S.A.
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Da: Violet's Bookstack, Ontario, ON, Canada
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Da: Bookbot, Prague, Repubblica Ceca
Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. Leichte Risse; Deutlicher Riss. Thirty years ago, in the dead of winter, a beautiful young woman woke from a seven-month coma in a lonely hospital ward. But when she opened her eyes, no one noticed. Her entire body paralyzed by stroke, she tried to speak and no one heard. Thus her nightmare began. Gradually, Julia Tavalaro realized that not one of her doctors or caretakers was prepared to consider the possibility that the vital mind of a thirty-two-year-old woman existed inside the tiny, twisted body before them. Warehoused in a public hospital with other "incurables, " she was known to all as "the vegetable." While she lay there, the Vietnam War raged and waned, a man walked on the moon, and an actor she knew from B-movies was elected president. In this vivid and moving memoir, Julia recounts her years in the prison of her body - the physical and emotional suffering and the realization that she had been abandoned by her family. Nearly broken by recurring bouts of pneumonia and fevers, and by the cruel and often abusive nurses who hated assuming responsibility for her life, Julia began to fight back. She unleashed a powerful rage, a biting, moaning, spitting offensive against those who expected little more from her than the sound of her breathing. Finally, in 1973, a young speech therapist named Arlene Kraat suspected Julia could comprehend what was happening around her. By asking her one simple question and telling her to respond with her eyes, she finally broke through Julia's isolation. With Arlene pointing to each letter on a letter board, Julia began to use her eyes to spell out her thoughts and relate the turmoil of her terrible years in captivity. Eventually, she began to compose poems that drew on the memoriesof her life before the stroke, reviving the aggressively sexual, daredevil life she had once lived and re-establishing her own sanity. Codice articolo 700f34ad-7162-4f02-8559-6dcf076581aa
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