Not a Leg to Stand on - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Not a Leg to Stand on write by Mary O'Brien. This book was released on 2013-10. Not a Leg to Stand on available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Mary O'Brien never let the grass grow under her feet, even though she lost both legs at the age of two in a farm accident. As Ireland's first double amputee to be fitted with artficial limbs she soon learned to ride a bicycle and careered off into a full life. Now with colour and humour Mary charts the milestones along the way: Growing up in a large family where her accident was never discussed. Her years as just another of the girls at a convent boarding school. Working as an Occupational Therapist for 30 years through a revolution in mental health care. Meeting and marrying John and raising two sons. Learning to swim and then going on to win Triple Gold at the Disabled Games and Stoke Mandeville. Studying Art, teaching it, and gaining wide recognition as a professional artist. Being awarded an M.B.E. Between these pivotal moments Mary describes all other trials, tribulations and triumphs of a remarkable life. Through it all, she stands tall on the only limbs she has ever known while her warm vivid memories present a unique picture of Ireland since the Second World War. They will inspire readers to constantly reach beyond their limitations and make their mark.
A Leg to Stand On
A Leg to Stand On - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Leg to Stand On write by Oliver Sacks. This book was released on 1998-04-29. A Leg to Stand On available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Originally published: New York: Summit Books, 1984.
You Have Not a Leg to Stand On
You Have Not a Leg to Stand On - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook You Have Not a Leg to Stand On write by D.D. Mayers. This book was released on 2015-08-26. You Have Not a Leg to Stand On available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book tells the story of one man's journey from happiness to despair and back again. At thirty-two and at the peak of health, D.D. Mayers lived in a Kenyan paradise with his beautiful wife. Then tragedy struck; an accident left him paralysed from the waist down, destined to spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair. Mayers takes the reader on an emotional yet witty and amusing tour of his life, guiding us from his childhood (and the ‘pointless' schooling he receives) through to his emergence as a young man who somehow finds himself earning money as a professional actor. One role takes him to Kenya, where we meet his wonderful wife, and we join the two for a trip through the Middle East, many years before war ravaged much of its warmth and beauty. After moving to London for a number of years, the couple return to Kenya - only for them to experience a life-changing event. The gripping storytelling throughout the book takes us from the author’s despair and feelings of worthlessness all the way through to a final, peaceful contentment. You will laugh and you will cry - but you won’t be able to put the book down.
Not a Leg to Stand on
Not a Leg to Stand on - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Not a Leg to Stand on write by Gloria Gavan. This book was released on 1967. Not a Leg to Stand on available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
A Leg to Stand On
A Leg to Stand On - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Leg to Stand On write by Oliver Sacks. This book was released on 2020-09-29. A Leg to Stand On available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Dr. Oliver Sacks’s books Awakenings, An Anthropologist on Mars, and the bestselling The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat have been acclaimed for their extraordinary compassion in the treatment of patients affected with profound disorders. In A Leg to Stand On, it is Sacks himself who is the patient: an encounter with a bull on a desolate mountain in Norway has left him with a severely damaged leg. But what should be a routine recuperation is actually the beginning of a strange medical journey when he finds that his leg uncannily no longer feels like part of his body. Sacks’s brilliant description of his crisis and eventual recovery is not only an illuminating examination of the experience of patienthood and the inner nature of illness and health but also a fascinating exploration of the physical basis of identity. This 1984 classic is now available in an expanded edition with a new foreword, written by Kate Edgar, executive director of the Oliver Sacks Foundation.
