Tales from Inside the Iron Lung (And How I Got Out of It) /
Woods, Regina
Tales from Inside the Iron Lung (And How I Got Out of It) / Regina Woods. - Reprint 2016 - 1 online resource (144 p.) : 13 illus.
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
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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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780812215069 9781512809329
10.9783/9781512809329 doi
Iron lung.
Poliomyelits--Patients--Kentucky--Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
RC181.U6
362.1/96835/0092 B
Tales from Inside the Iron Lung (And How I Got Out of It) / Regina Woods. - Reprint 2016 - 1 online resource (144 p.) : 13 illus.
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
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780812215069 9781512809329
10.9783/9781512809329 doi
Iron lung.
Poliomyelits--Patients--Kentucky--Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
RC181.U6
362.1/96835/0092 B