Uncomfortably Numb - a memoir about the life-altering diagnosis of multiple sclerosis

About losing one's life as it was once imagined, and the ultimate, uneasy peace that's achieved with the permanent uncertainty which accompanies living with a chronic illness.
It begins with numbness on her left leg. Then it spreads. Even though an MRI finds a "mass" on her brainstem, it takes two more years for Meredith O'Brien to learn what is causing that numbness. Months after her 65-year-old mother dies from a fast-moving cancer, weeks after her father is hospitalized and she experiences an unexpected job change, she learns she has multiple sclerosis.
Suddenly, Meredith, a married mother of three teens, has to figure out how to move forward into a life she no longer recognizes.
Reimagining her life as a writer and an educator, as a mother and a spouse, she has to adjust to the restrictions MS imposes on her.
It is a life, altered.

Product details

• Authors: Meredith O'Brien
• Publisher: Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9781948018708
• ISBN: 978-1-948018-70-8
• No. of pages: 266
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 339 g
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases / Nervous System (incl. Brain), Consumer Health