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Up The Down Escalator

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A memoir of triumph in the face of a terrifying diagnosis, Up the Down Escalator recounts Dr. Lisa Doggett's startling shift from doctor to patient, as she learns to live with multiple sclerosis while running a clinic for uninsured patients in central Austin.



Facing the prospect of a career-ending disability as she adjusts to life with multiple sclerosis, Dr. Lisa Doggett is forced to deal with a new level of uncertainty and vulnerability, and the everyday fear that something new will go wrong. Taking off her white coat—becoming a patient herself—she confronts unimaginable fears, copes with her limitations, and sidesteps her skepticism of alternative medicine to seek help from unlikely sources.



MS pushes Doggett—a perfectionist at heart—to embrace self-compassion. As a patient, she learns to advocate for herself to ensure on-time medication deliveries and satisfactory treatment plans; to navigate chronic dizziness, relapses, and parenting frustrations; and to push her physical limits as a runner to go farther than ever before.



This hopeful and uplifting book will encourage those living with chronic disease, and those supporting them, to power forward with courage and grace.
Author Lisa Doggett
Narrator Lisa Doggett
Duration 9 hours and 48 minutes
ISBN 9781696612517
Format Audiobook
Publisher Highbridge Company
Genre Biography and non-fiction prose, Biography: general, Biography: science, technology and medicine, Gender studies: women and girls, Society and Social Sciences
Availability AU, GB, IE, US

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