To Get Back Home is a medical thriller of the first order, a true
story of triumph and survival over astronomical odds, as an
otherwise healthy and active young woman fights for her life after
being suddenly stricken by a rare neurological disorder, Acute
Demyelinating Encephalomyelitis (ADEM). To Get Back Home takes you
on a harrowing journey as Ms. Ford forges her way back from a coma
and quadriplegia, desperate to return to her family and young
children.
Her life seemed perfect until Wendy Ford was stricken and
rendered comatose within days, and then, after a tense weeks-long
battle for survival, quadriplegic. At one of the most renowned
hospitals in the world, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in
Boston, the Harvard teaching hospital known as "Harvard with a
heart," her doctors Harvard Medical School professors all were
helpless to diagnose and treat her, hard as they tried, as the rare
malady confounded even them and she slipped further and further
away. Initially, she was not expected to live, or, ultimately, to
walk again or recover her prior intellectual abilities. Doctors
have referred to hers as a miracle case, but the mysteries persist
to this day.
"An engaging, moving memoir that unravels at a quick pace.
Straightforward and honest, emotional realism is achieved with
quiet dignity, making it all the more poignant..."
-Kate Darnton, Contributing Editor,
PublicAffairs
"Impeccably done and so fascinating. Sometimes you read
something that's really important and you have to at least try to
get it out there..."
-Philip Spitzer, Literary Agent, NY, NY
"A poignant narrative...I was spellbound. You are a role model
for your life-affirming persistence..."
-Weston Boer, Writer and Historian
"Immensely valuable to anyone in the clergy as they help people
through dire straits."
-The Rev. Susan Flanders, Chevy Chase, MD
"Very moved by your manuscript, which I read from cover to
cover, at once...Remarkable..."
-Diana Barrett, Harvard Business School
"Your very desire to live and not die was itself a kind of
prayer."
-Professor Kimberley Patton, Harvard Divinity School
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