Emerging From the Dark
by Terence Ang
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Pub Date 1 Jan 2023 | Archive Date 7 Jan 2023
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Description
What Does it Feel Like to Have a Stroke?
How Do You Move Forward in a Body that Will Never be the Same?
Having a stroke is one of most people’s worst fears. But the truth is a stroke is a common medical issue.
Most of us have no real idea what a stroke feels like or what it takes to recover from one. Our fear often has us pull away from people who most need our help and support. Even medical professionals often fail to fully grasp what it takes to recover from a stroke or how much energy and grit that journey takes.
In his first book, A Cry in the Dark, author Terence Ang shared his moving story of stroke recovery with us.
In this new book, Emerging from the Dark, Ang has assembled a collection of moving stories from people in all stages of stroke recovery. In these pages, you will find tales of unimaginable courage and determination.
Most of all, these are stories of fighters. These are people who reject the idea of being a victim. Instead, they are fighting with everything they have to return to a normal daily life, even if the new normal is different from their old normal.
This book will change the way you see people recovering from strokes. These are positive people with positive stories. They don’t want or need pity—they just want their stories to be heard.
Because the odds are that one day you or someone close to you will experience a stroke, this could be the most important book you will ever read.
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Featured Reviews
Shari B, Reviewer
Near the end of this book, Dr. Shamala Thilarajah states, 'Terence Ang's new book is a compelling collation of stroke survivors' and caregivers' stories, intertwined with the author's thoughts, captured in a creative manner with his signature illustrations.' (p185) I agree. I admit that the book was not what I was expecting when I started reading. I expected to be a straightforward collection of stories, one after the other. It turned out to be far more effective than that. As the spouse of someone who had a 'mild' stroke a decade ago, I found the structure of the book and its contents to be quite powerful and enlightening. It gave me food for thought, even after all this time.
The author is a stroke survivor himself and his quotes and art really communicate his experiences very well. I think this book would be very helpful for people who have had a stroke or for those who love and care about them. I definitely would have found it very helpful when he had the stroke, but I also found it quite useful now, these many years later. I feel that it deepened my understanding. I would have no hesitation in recommending this book to anyone who needs/wants to learn more about living after stroke.
I received a copy of the e-book from NetGalley in exchange for a review. I thank them, the publisher, and the author. And I wish the author and all of the other people in the book well as they continues their recovery.
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