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A deeply moving memoir about two lives that were changed in the blink of an eye, and the love that helped them rewrite their future. Five months pregnant, on a flight to their "babymoon," Allison Pataki turned to her husband when he asked if his eye looked strange, and watched him suddenly lose consciousness. After an emergency landing, she discovered that Dave--a healthy thirty-year-old athlete and surgical resident--had suffered a rare and life-threatening stroke. When Dave woke up, he could not carry memories from hour to hour, much less from one day to the next. Within a few months, she found herself caring for both a newborn and a sick husband, struggling with the fear of what was to come. As a way to make sense of the pain and chaos of their new reality, Allison started to write daily letters to Dave. Not only would she work to make sense of the unfathomable experiences unfolding around her, but her letters would provide Dave with the memories he could not make on his own. She was writing to preserve their past, protect their present, and fight for their future. Those letters became the foundation for this beautiful, intimate memoir.-- Adapted from publisher description. |
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Pataki, Allison.
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Cerebrovascular disease -- Patients -- Biography.
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Cerebral ischemia.
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Young adults -- Diseases -- Biography.
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Cerebrovascular disease -- Patients -- Family relationships.
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Husband and wife -- Biography.
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Caregivers -- Biography.
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Autobiographies.
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| Other title |
Memoir of love, faith, and resilience |
| ISBN |
9780399591655
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0399591656
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