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Informationen zum Autor Simon Lewis is a film and television producer and writer. His Hollywood experience includes managing writers, directors, and stars for Blake Edwards Entertainment, as well as producing Look Who’s Talking, variety specials starring Howie Mandel, Age Old Friends (an Emmy Award-winning international co-production for HBO), and critically acclaimed films such as The Chocolate War. He lives in Los Angeles. Klappentext An impassioned tale of survival and recovery! this inspirational story recounts the author's horrific car accident! his subsequent coma! and the more than 15 years of cutting-edge treatments and therapies endured during convalescence. With specific details of the rigorous rehabilitation process that ensued! including numerous breakthrough and experimental surgeries! the book also provides practical insight into navigating the treacherous world of insurance and how to differentiate between the often conflicting medical opinions offered. In addition to describing the numerous procedures undergone! the author tells not only of his pain! frustration! and despair! but also of his childlike wonder at the beauty and miracle of creation. A first-person account of sudden! unexpected tragedy and life-affirming courage! this remarkable tale of regeneration imparts lessons both medical and spiritual. Zusammenfassung ?When I was thirty-five! my wife and I were both reported dead by the first paramedics to arrive at the scene of a seventy-five-mile-an-hour hit-and-run. My wife Marcy died instantly that day. With brain damage from a massive stroke and my body broken! I wasn’t expected to survive either.” So begins Rise and Shine ! the dramatic story of Simon Lewis and his remarkable recovery from a horrific car accident. Told through the eyes of someone who has ?lived through it” and successfully overcome the hurdles of the health insurance maze! Rise and Shine is a first-person account of unexpected tragedy and life-affirming courage! with lessons both medical and spiritual. Rise and Shine shows how much patients can achieve! beyond the limited horizons of insurance-based diagnosis! treatment and rehabilitation! to attain maximum regeneration and rebuild their lives. An inspiring story about what it means to return to life after a near-death experience! Rise and Shine is! essentially! an exploration of the nature of consciousness itself! and an impassioned tale about survival and recovery. ...
