Stroke: 5% chance of survival: A 5% Chance of Survival - Softcover

Brown, Ricky Monahan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1912240440 ISBN 13: 9781912240449

Verlag: Sandstone Press, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

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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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 - his stroke recovery memoir will be published in January 2019.

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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Sandstone Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1912240440
• ISBN 13: 9781912240449
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224
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