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The blink of an eye : how I died and started living / Rikke Schmidt Kjærgaard, foreword by Bill Bryson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kjærgaard, Rikke Schmidt, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kjærgaard, Rikke Schmidt--Health.
- Kjærgaard, Rikke Schmidt.
- Kjærgaard, Rikke Schmidt--Family.
- Streptococcus pneumoniae.
- Streptococcus pneumoniae--Patients--Rehabilitation.
- Streptococcus pneumoniae--Patients--Family relationships.
- Physician and patient.
- Families.
- Health.
- Patients.
- Rehabilitation.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 207 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Hodder & Stoughton Ltd., 2018.
- Summary:
- "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.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1.Dying
- 2.Surviving
- 3.Being
- 4.Blinking
- 5.Breathing
- 6.Healing
- 7.Tilting
- 8.Walking
- 9.Cutting
- 10.Leaving
- 11.Living.
- ISBN:
- 9781473669376
- 1473669375
- 9781473669369
- 1473669367
- 9781473669383
- 1473669383
- OCLC:
- 1007062922
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