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Patient 1 - Forgetting and Finding Myself (Hardcover)
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Patient 1 - Forgetting and Finding Myself (Hardcover)
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* Shortlisted for the RSL Christopher Bland Prize * Honest,
intelligent and unsentimental, Patient 1 is a startling
self-portrait written with wit and vulnerability, and a unique
testament to the power of hope in the face of illness. Charlotte
Raven had never heard of Huntington's Disease when, in her
mid-thirties, she discovered that her father was suffering from the
illness. Life for her and her young family would never be the same
again. Patient 1 is her brutally candid account of coming to terms
with this inherited neurodegenerative disease, which can manifest
at any time in life for people who carry the faulty gene. As the
illness began to take hold of Raven's body, mind and memory, she
began to write. She wrote like her life depended on it - and in
many ways she believed it did. Frank and fearless, Patient 1 is an
act of self-preservation and a kind of reckoning: with the illness,
with the person she once was, with the person she is now. In an
afterword, Raven's doctor Ed Wild - one of the country's leading
experts in Huntington's - explains how doctors and patients like
Charlotte are working together in the hope of one day eliminating
this disease altogether.
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