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Imagine if the mere breeze of an air conditioner were to send you
into excruciating pain. For those suffering from Complex Regional
Pain Syndrome (CRPS), historically called Reflex Sympathetic
Dystrophy (RSD), this crippling neuropathic pain is an unrelenting
reality. With symptoms such as swelling, hypersensitivity,
stiffness, burning pain, and temperature abnormalities, CRPS can
develop at any time and quickly leaves its victims disabled and
isolated. This book explains CRPS in an accessible style, featuring
modern self-help techniques, complementary therapies, and holistic
strategies for maximizing the potential for healing. Readers with
CRPS will find a wealth of tips on life modifications to help
better manage their condition, along with a list of "dynamite
distractions" to refresh the pain-wracked mind and help them
rediscover their imagination and humor. Patient testimonies on
techniques for transforming the pain and discomfort of CRPS provide
hope, and interviews with practitioners, including pain specialist
Edward Carden and occupational therapist/neurological acupuncturist
Sheri Barnes, offer insights every patient should know. There's
even a chapter addressed to loved ones with advice for their
difficult roles as encouragers and caregivers. CRPS remains a
mysterious, poorly understood condition. This book provides the
information and positive options everyone affected by CRPS
needs.
Battle for Grace is about a seven-year-old girl who sees Funny Girl
and has a dream. To act, to dance and to sing. It's also about how
she becomes a woman whose life is virtually destroyed by a
crippling mystery illness and how she fights the institutions that
failed her. A woman who has lived an almost impossible love story
that began before her illness. Somehow she and the man who is her
reason for living, her caregiver and her partner in life have
managed to stick together for more than thirty difficult years.
Battle for Grace tells how she reinvents herself and turns tragedy
into triumph for millions of women worldwide. At the same time, she
transforms her life into something more beautiful and meaningful
than her original dreams of stardom. Ballerina Cynthia Toussaint's
promising career ended abruptly when a rehearsal injury that caused
excruciating pain remained undiagnosed for thirteen years. This
left her bedridden for a decade, unable to speak for five of those
years and often reduced to uncontrolled violence. Throughout all of
this, Toussaint's claims of pain were discounted by her HMO as
being all in her head-a frequent occurrence with women and their
doctors. Many people with her illness-sometimes called the Suicide
Disease-take their lives instead of contending with the pain.
Toussaint's story is about her refusal to be a victim. She not only
fought to survive, she has taken on the role of activist and
aggressively challenges the HMOs and pharmaceutical companies that
put profit ahead of patient care. Wheelchair bound, she founded a
nonprofit and entered the political arena as an advocate for women
in pain. Toussaint's memoir takes the reader on the roller coaster
life of a woman who sees every no as a future yes. Despite pain,
setbacks, abuse and betrayal, she holds her ground, finding in the
process the spotlight she'd always coveted. And a deeper meaning in
life than she ever expected.
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