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Stroke: a 5% chance of survival

By Ricky , Monahan Brown

Book information

Publisher
Sandstone Press Ltd
ISBN
9781912240456, 9781912240449, 1912240440
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
709 kB (725936 bytes)
Series
Stroke: A 5
Pages
215 pages ; 20 cm\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Cerebrovascular disease;Health;History;Biography;ARicky -- Health;New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 21st

Description

The day after losing his job in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, Ricky suffers a catastrophic haemorrhagic stroke. Fortunately, his girlfriend Beth is nearby. A few minutes later, the unconscious Ricky is wheeled into Brooklyn's Methodist Hospital with a 5% chance of survival, and worse odds of any type of good outcome. Beth begins an eight-week vigil, grabbing an occasional nap on a waiting room floor. Then Hurricane Sandy does to New York what the haemorrhage did to Ricky's brain. Amid the rubble of a battered city, brain injury, and lost jobs, Beth and Ricky start planning for a future together. After all, this is a love story.

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