Tales from Inside the Iron Lung (And How I Got Out of It) / / Regina Woods.
Regina Woods, just weeks before her fourteenth birthday contracted polio. Within a few days, she was paralyzed from the neck down, unable even to breathe by herself. What is most profound about this book is that--while it is an account of catastrophic loss--there is so much triumph in it.
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Package Archive 1898-1999 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016] ©1994 |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Edition: | Reprint 2016 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (144 p.) :; 13 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustration
- Foreword
- To the Reader: Beyond Anger
- 1. A Time Lost Forever
- 2. Breathing Better - For a Time
- 3. Another City, Another Hospital
- 4. I Get Wheels
- 5. Control
- 6. Life in Intensive Care
- 7. Mama
- 8. Heroes
- 9. Learning
- 10. Dying
- 11. I Decide to Live
- 12. The Card
- 13. Dreams
- 14. Church
- 15. Post-Polio Syndrome
- 16. People
- 17. Doing and Being
- 18. Caregivers
- 19. Faith Healing
- 20. Small Battles
- 21. Family
- 22. Summer
- 23. Mike
- 24. The Secret Self
- Afterword
- Appendix: About Poliomyelitis
- Illustrations
- Backmatter