Beautiful trauma : an explosion, an obsession, and a new lease on life /

Fogg, Rebecca,

Beautiful trauma : an explosion, an obsession, and a new lease on life / Rebecca Fogg. - x, 260 pages : illustration ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-260).

An explosion in Brooklyn -- Fight or flight? Our built-in threat-defense program -- Diagnosis: spaghetti wrist -- Instrument of instruments: anatomy of the hand -- My family flies to my side -- Big-wave surfing: replanting a partially amputated hand -- Under water on the Upper East Side -- With respect to pain: how it helps and works -- At home with strangeness -- After the unthinkable: psychological recovery -- Music city TLC -- Pins and needles: peripheral nerve regeneration -- Farewell to the dream team -- It's all up to you, kiddo: rehabilitating a replanted hand -- Rotas and meltdowns -- Struggling with the status quo -- New normal: my right hand today.

"After a freak accident, a young woman must recover from trauma and find what will make her whole again. Warm, funny, and brutally honest about what it means to feel vulnerable, this is a story of trauma and recovery for our time"--

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Fogg, Rebecca.


Psychic trauma--Patients--United States--Biography.
Hand--Wounds and injuries--Patients--United States--Biography.
Home accidents.

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