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Uncomfortably Numb
- Author
- Meredith O'Brien
- Narrator
- Erin deWard
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish Date
- 20 December 2022
- Run Time
- 9 hours 22 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
It begins with numbness on her left leg. Then it spreads. Even though an MRI finds a "mass" on her brainstem, it takes two more years for Meredith O'Brien to learn what is causing that numbness. Months after her sixty-five-year-old mother dies from a fast-moving cancer, weeks after her father is hospitalized and she experiences an unexpected job change, she learns she has multiple sclerosis.
Suddenly, Meredith, a married mother of three teens, has to figure out how to move forward into a life she no longer recognizes.
Reimagining her life as a writer and an educator, as a mother and a spouse, she has to adjust to the restrictions MS imposes on her.
It is a life, altered.
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Details
- Author
- Meredith O'Brien
- Narrator
- Erin deWard
- Duration
- 9 hours 22 minutes
- Release Date
- 20 December 2022
- ISBN
- 9798765056424
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Genre
- Coping with illness and specific health conditions, Neurology and clinical neurophysiology
Synopsis
About losing one's life as it was once imagined, and the ultimate, uneasy peace that's achieved with the permanent uncertainty which accompanies living with a chronic illness.It begins with numbness on her left leg. Then it spreads. Even though an MRI finds a "mass" on her brainstem, it takes two more years for Meredith O'Brien to learn what is causing that numbness. Months after her sixty-five-year-old mother dies from a fast-moving cancer, weeks after her father is hospitalized and she experiences an unexpected job change, she learns she has multiple sclerosis.Suddenly, Meredith, a married mother of three teens, has to figure out how to move forward into a life she no longer recognizes. Reimagining her life as a writer and an educator, as a mother and a spouse, she has to adjust to the restrictions MS imposes on her.It is a life, altered.
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