Beautiful trauma : an explosion, an obsession, and a new lease on life / Rebecca Fogg.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House, [2023]Description: x, 260 pages : illustration ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780593086773
- 0593086775
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | NonFiction | 616.8521 F655 | Available | 33111011260995 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A compelling account of surviving a freak accident, and a fascinating exploration of the science of trauma and recovery.
Late one night, while Rebecca Fogg was alone in her apartment, her hand was partially amputated in an explosion. Quick thinking saved her life, but the journey to recovery would be a slow one. As the doctors rebuilt her hand, Rebecca (who also survived 9/11) began rebuilding her sense of self by studying the physical and psychological process of recovery.
Interspersing the personal with the medical, Rebecca charts her year of rehabilitation, touching on the marvelously adaptable anatomy of the hand; how the brain's fight-or-flight mechanism enables us to react instantly to danger; and why trauma causes some people to develop PTSD and gives others a whole new lease on life.
Told with emotional and intellectual clarity, Beautiful Trauma is a celebration of the resilience of the human spirit and the wonder of the human hand.
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"-- Provided by publisher.