women's stories of hemorrhagic stroke
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Stone, Sharon Dale
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- WER 39 2007
- Thesaurus
- ziekten, leeftijdsgroepen, patiënten, gehandicapten, interview (vorm)
- Description
- This is a collection of narratives by women who experienced hemorrhagic strokes before the age of 50. The author herself experienced a stroke as a young girl of 11 and the symptoms were misdiagnosed. As she grew into adulthood, the author thought deeply about the silence that had surrounded her experience and the psychic trauma she wasn't allowed to talk about. In the 1990s, she happened upon an article written by a woman who had suffered a hemorrhagic stroke at the age of 24, and for the first time she felt less isolated in her experience. With her new awareness that there were others like her, she embarked upon a journey through Canada, the U.S., England and Scotland to find and publish their stories. The book opens with a background discussion of hemorrhagic stroke and the disabling consequences that follow. The women's stories are told honestly and movingly, and touch on the themes of recovery and rehabilitation: being a medical patient: self-image: being or not being recognized as disabled: relations with family, friends and co-workers: and how the stroke so suddenly changed their lives.