Bibliograph

Take it lying down, finding my feet after a spinal cord injury, Jim Linnell ; foreword by Len Jenkin

Type

Label

Take it lying down, finding my feet after a spinal cord injury, Jim Linnell ; foreword by Len Jenkin

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Take it lying down

Oclc number

1056779709

Responsibility statement

Jim Linnell ; foreword by Len Jenkin

Sub title

finding my feet after a spinal cord injury

Summary

"Six months shy of retirement and on a family vacation in Mexico, Jim Linnell steps off the porch of a rented guest house and breaks his neck. He is medevaced to his hometown hospital in Albuquerque and from there to a spinal cord injury hospital in Denver, where he learns he may live the rest of his life as a quadriplegic. How does a person absorb such news? Jim's injury is incomplete: he has a two-year window for improvement. After three months of rehabilitation at the hospital, he and his wife, Jennifer, return to their home with an armada of equipment for his therapy, a heavy dose of anxiety about how they will manage together, and many unanswerable questions: Will Jim get better? What kind of future will they have? Can they move past denial to accept the possibility that Jim may remain a quadriplegic? [This book] portrays a man reclaiming his life from catastrophe--it is a book of exemplary courage"--, Amazon.com

Table Of Contents

You've got a nerve -- Spineless -- Sweet chariot -- Hot-wired -- The bear and I

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