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Long Time, No See (Paperback)
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Long Time, No See (Paperback)
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List price R415
Loot Price R386
Discovery Miles 3 860
You Save R29 (7%)
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Long Time, No See is certainly an inspiring story, but Beth Finke
does not aim to inspire. Eschewing reassuring platitudes and
sensational pleas for sympathy, she charts her struggles with
juvenile diabetes, blindness, and a host of other hardships,
sharing her feelings of despair and frustration as well as her
hard-won triumphs. Rejecting the label "courageous," she prefers to
describe herself using the phrase her mother invoked in times of
difficulty: "She did what she had to do." With unflinching candor
and acerbic wit, Finke chronicles the progress of the juvenile
diabetes that left her blind at the age of twenty-six as well as
the seemingly endless spiral of adversity that followed. First she
was forced out of her professional job. Then she bore a multiply
handicapped son. But she kept moving forward, confronting marital
and financial problems and persevering through a rocky training
period with a seeing-eye dog. Finke's life story and her commanding
knowledge of her situation give readers a clear understanding of
diabetes, blindness, and the issues faced by parents of children
with significant disabilities. Because she has taken care to
include accurate medical information as well as personal memoir,
Long Time, No See serves as an excellent resource for others in
similar situations and for professionals who deal with disabled
adults or children.
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