The Blink of an Eye - 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 The Blink of an Eye write by Rikke Schmidt Kjærgaard. This book was released on 2019-05-14. The Blink of an Eye available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “A highly personal, deeply affecting account of what it is to be yanked from a happy, well-ordered life and thrust into a sudden, unimaginable, terrifying darkness. Rikke Schmidt Kjærgaard has done the impossible of putting into words an experience that would seem to be beyond expressing.”—from the foreword by Bill Bryson It was New Year’s Day. Rikke Schmidt Kjærgaard, a young mother and scientist, was celebrating with family and friends when she was struck down with a sudden fever. Within hours, she’d suffered multiple organ failure and was clinically dead. Then, brought back to the edge of life—trapped in a near-death coma—she was given a 5 percent chance of survival. She awoke to find herself completely paralyzed, with blinking as her sole means of communicating with the outside world. The Blink of an Eye is Rikke’s gripping account of being locked inside her own body, and what it took to painstakingly relearn every basic life skill—from breathing and swallowing, speaking and walking, to truly living again. Much more than an account of recovery against all odds—this is, at its heart, a celebration of love, family, and every little thing that matters when life hangs in the balance.
The Blink of an Eye
The Blink of an Eye - 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 The Blink of an Eye write by Rikke Schmidt Kjaergaard. This book was released on 2018. The Blink of an Eye available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The powerful and moving memoir by a scientist and mother of three of how she learned to live again, after a sudden severe infection caused her to die and then revive, but locked in completely paralysed, and only able to blink an eye. The Blink of an Eye is a celebration of love and family and every little thing that matters when life is in the balance - written by a scientist uniquely able to describe her physical and mental journey to recovery."--Amazon.com website.
The Blink of an Eye: A Memoir of Dying - and Learning How to Live Again
The Blink of an Eye: A Memoir of Dying - and Learning How to Live Again - 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 The Blink of an Eye: A Memoir of Dying - and Learning How to Live Again write by Rikke Schmidt Kjaergaard. This book was released on 2019-05-14. The Blink of an Eye: A Memoir of Dying - and Learning How to Live Again available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “A highly personal, deeply affecting account of what it is to be yanked from a happy, well-ordered life and thrust into a sudden, unimaginable, terrifying darkness. Rikke Schmidt Kjargaard has done the impossible of putting into words an experience that would seem to be beyond expressing.”—from the foreword by Bill Bryson It was New Year’s Day. Rikke Schmidt Kjargaard, a young mother and scientist, was celebrating with family and friends when she was struck down with a sudden fever. Within hours, she’d suffered multiple organ failure and was clinically dead. Then, brought back to the edge of life—trapped in a near-death coma—she was given a 5 percent chance of survival. She awoke to find herself completely paralyzed, with blinking as her sole means of communicating with the outside world. The Blink of an Eye is Rikke’s gripping account of being locked inside her own body, and what it took to painstakingly relearn every basic life skill—from breathing and swallowing, speaking and walking, to truly living again. Much more than an account of recovery against all odds—this is, at its heart, a celebration of love, family, and every little thing that matters when life hangs in the balance.
The Unwinding of the Miracle
The Unwinding of the Miracle - 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 The Unwinding of the Miracle write by Julie Yip-Williams. This book was released on 2019-02-05. The Unwinding of the Miracle available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Read with Jenna Book Club Pick as Featured on Today • As a young mother facing a terminal diagnosis, Julie Yip-Williams began to write her story, a story like no other. What began as the chronicle of an imminent and early death became something much more—a powerful exhortation to the living. “An exquisitely moving portrait of the daily stuff of life.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • Time • Real Simple • Good Housekeeping That Julie Yip-Williams survived infancy was a miracle. Born blind in Vietnam, she narrowly escaped euthanasia at the hands of her grandmother, only to flee with her family the political upheaval of her country in the late 1970s. Loaded into a rickety boat with three hundred other refugees, Julie made it to Hong Kong and, ultimately, America, where a surgeon at UCLA gave her partial sight. She would go on to become a Harvard-educated lawyer, with a husband, a family, and a life she had once assumed would be impossible. Then, at age thirty-seven, with two little girls at home, Julie was diagnosed with terminal metastatic colon cancer, and a different journey began. The Unwinding of the Miracle is the story of a vigorous life refracted through the prism of imminent death. When she was first diagnosed, Julie Yip-Williams sought clarity and guidance through the experience and, finding none, began to write her way through it—a chronicle that grew beyond her imagining. Motherhood, marriage, the immigrant experience, ambition, love, wanderlust, tennis, fortune-tellers, grief, reincarnation, jealousy, comfort, pain, the marvel of the body in full rebellion—this book is as sprawling and majestic as the life it records. It is inspiring and instructive, delightful and shattering. It is a book of indelible moments, seared deep—an incomparable guide to living vividly by facing hard truths consciously. With humor, bracing honesty, and the cleansing power of well-deployed anger, Julie Yip-Williams set the stage for her lasting legacy and one final miracle: the story of her life. Praise for The Unwinding of the Miracle “Everything worth understanding and holding on to is in this book. . . . A miracle indeed.”—Kelly Corrigan, New York Times bestselling author “A beautifully written, moving, and compassionate chronicle that deserves to be read and absorbed widely.”—Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies
In the Blink of an Eye
In the Blink of an Eye - 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 In the Blink of an Eye write by L. M. Young. This book was released on 2013-06-24. In the Blink of an Eye available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. I wanted to think that no one in the world could miss her as much as I did. I wanted to feel offended by her death. I wanted to wrap up my grief, frustration, and anger over my sister's death, and never think about it again. There was nothing anyone could tell me; and mostly they never attempted to tell me, anything about her or how I was handling her death. I had difficulty in most daily activities. I didn't want to get out of bed. I was disheartened by people whose lives seem to keep going. I didn't understand why, even the world, seemed to keep spinning. There was pain in simply hearing her name. I couldn't even think of that day in January without crying. What had become worse...I had tried to hide the pain. I was destroying myself with the thought that I wasn't strong enough to live without her. But in a moment of love; someone whom I loved, came to me with an act of kindness. She lovingly pointed out to me that my sister's death did not happen to ME. She said I was experiencing the loss, yes, but my sister died...I didn't. She may have never understood the light bulb that came on in my soul that day. At that moment, I understood my feelings of anger came from one place...the thought...no...the FACT...that I had to go on living. And I had to go on living...without Melissa. I had to figure out a way to WANT to get out of bed. I had to devise a plan that would help me survive this horrific loss. I had to admit my pain...own it. I went through so many cycles of grief it was ridiculous, and then I went through them again. This precious thing we call life...is temporary. We must remember to make the most of it. In this book, you will find the raw emotions of my journey. I loved my sister and in a single moment...In the Blink of an Eye...she was gone.
