I Had Brain Surgery, What's Your Excuse?
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.21 (790 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0761139796 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-10 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Her memoir loosely brackets the year around her procedure, from the initial diagnosis to the long, slow recovery, when unpredicted side effects interfered with her speech and even her thought processes. Becker finally sought medical testing and underwent brain surgery. As anyone might, Becker asks herself, "What if my life is a life I don't want to live?" But with the help of others and her slowly returning sense of humor, she eventually recreates a life she recognizes as her own, one in which she even completes a strenuous AIDS fund-raising bike ride and begins a competitive writing fellowship. Becker's deeply personal and surprisingly funny account intersperses text with such whimsical additions as Becker's "Cardiac Exercise Tolerance" and kooky cartoons. From Publishers Weekly Cartoonist and writer Becker (All I Need to Know I Learned from My Cat) sloughed off her repeated seizures as stress-related and lived with the strang
Sally J. Siegrist said Been there, done that. Suzy Becker has written the definitive survival guide for post-surgery recovery from brain surgery. Reading her book confirmed that I wasn't crazy but was suffering from cognitive deficits that my surgeon, neurologist and oncologist told me were impossible to have. The book made me realize that th. "Very good" according to C. Fleuriel. I read this after hearing an acquaintance talk about having had brain surgery and its effects on her. When she spoke she wore a Tshirt with I Had Brain Surgeryon it. When I commented on the shirt, she told me about this book. I had read Suzy's book about her cat so I was pretty sure I would like t. Brain doc said From a brain tumor physician. Tragic, comic and beautifully written, I will recommend this book to my patients anticipating surgery.
I Had Brain Surgery, What's Your Excuse? is a story that grapples with the question “What makes me me?” By turns philosophical and whimsical, rivetingly dramatic and unexpectedly light, it is illustrated with drawings, charts, pseudoserious graphs, real EEGs. The result is a book filled with insights into creativity, identity, love, relationships, family, and that intangible something that gives each of us our spark.. Then brain surgery left her temporarily unable to speak, read, or write. Now in paperback, the ingenious illustrated memoir that is widely praised: “Hilarious, hell-raising, and frequently heart-wrenching.” —Booklist “A unique tragicomedy of a memoir The author is so likable, even in her darkest hour, that as you applaud her recovery you also realize you’ll miss looking after her.” —Entertainment Weekly (“A” rating) “Compelling reading Becker has turned one person’s experie