| Description |
1 online resource : 13 illustrations |
| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustration -- Foreword -- To the Reader: Beyond Anger -- 1. A Time Lost Forever -- 2. Breathing Better -- For a Time -- 3. Another City, Another Hospital -- 4. I Get Wheels -- 5. Control -- 6. Life in Intensive Care -- 7. Mama -- 8. Heroes -- 9. Learning -- 10. Dying -- 11. I Decide to Live -- 12. The Card -- 13. Dreams -- 14. Church -- 15. Post-Polio Syndrome -- 16. People -- 17. Doing and Being -- 18. Caregivers -- 19. Faith Healing -- 20. Small Battles -- 21. Family -- 22. Summer -- 23. Mike -- 24. The Secret Self -- Afterword -- Appendix: About Poliomyelitis -- Illustrations -- Backmatter |
| Summary |
Regina Woods, just weeks before her fourteenth birthday contracted polio. Within a few days, she was paralyzed from the neck down, unable even to breathe by herself. What is most profound about this book is that--while it is an account of catastrophic loss--there is so much triumph in it |
| Notes |
In English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed Dec. 09, 2016) |
| Subject |
Woods, Regina -- Health
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| SUBJECT |
Woods, Regina. fast (OCoLC)fst00333673 |
| Subject |
Poliomyelits -- Patients -- Kentucky -- Biography
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Iron lung.
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Ventilators, Negative-Pressure
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Personal Memoirs.
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Health.
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Iron lung.
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Kentucky.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Rogers, David E
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| ISBN |
9781512809329 |
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1512809322 |
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