Fallen A Trauma, a Marriage, and the Transformative Power of Music.
Stanley, Kara
Greystone Books
New York
monographic
Open WorldCat Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory
Non-fiction Memoir
English
cwrc:d2a28040-9142-49eb-8fa6-562725ab6b5a
2018-09-05T23:30:31.726Z
Table of Contents; Note to the Reader; 1 - Rugged Cheddar and Thought-Prayers; 2 - A Hungry Beast; 3 - Walking Blues; 4 - Stat Craniectomy; 5 - If...; 6 - Wild Thyme; 7 - Weirdos; 8 - Suckerpunch; 9 - Breathe In, Breathe Out; 10 - A Howling Storm; 11 - Animal Spirits; 12 - You Can't Stand Up Alone; 13 - Sleeping Beauty; 14 - The Ghost in the Machine; 15 - Being Water; 16 - Trouble is Real; 17 - A Mystery Gift; 18 - Simon's Recollections: All Your Junk And Your Catalog Too; 19 - Moments in Time; 20 - Shhhugar; 21 - Outstandiing; 22 - It's a Drag; 23 - Eye on the Prize. 24 - Simon's Recollections: Came a Wind25 - Hay; 26 - A Celebration; 27 - Wecandoitwecandoitwecandoit; 28 - A Hundred Miles; 29 - Simon's Recollections: All the Little Things; 30 - Moving On; Afterword; Acknowledgments; Notes and References; Further Reading. Part recovery narrative and part love story, interwoven with the latest research on the brain, Fallen describes the aftermath of a life-threatening brain and spinal cord injury.In 2008, Simon Paradis stepped backward on the scaffolding where he was doing construction work and fell two stories to the hard stone tile below. Landing on his back, head, and spine, he suffered a severe brain and spinal cord injury. Doctors warned his wife, Kara Stanley, that he probably would not survive, and that if he did, his mind and his body would never be the same. In Fallen, Kara Stanley chronicles the effect.
