1st Edition
How Will They Know If I'm Dead? Transcending Disability and Terminal Illness
By Robert Horn
Copyright 1997
168 Pages
by
Routledge
168 Pages
by
Routledge
168 Pages
by
Routledge
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Most books on terminal illness focus on death and dying. This book is about neither. It doesn't deal with statistics or the medical aspects of a crippling disease, and it isn't written by a celebrity about their amazing recovery. This book is about a real person and a true hero. Bob Horn, an authority on the Soviet Union and foreign policy in the Third World, a successful author and teacher, an... Read more
Foreword by C. Everett Koop, M.D., Sc.D.
Part One: Living Life
Prelude to a Decision
Attitude Adjustment
Part Two: Choosing Life
Dealing with the Downhill
This Is the Good News?
Coping I: Amazing Technology
Coping II: Wondrous People
Part Three: Affirming Life
Shift Change!
Reaching Without Arms
Getting On With the Business of Living
Appendix
Selected Annotated Bibliography
Index
Part One: Living Life
Prelude to a Decision
Attitude Adjustment
Part Two: Choosing Life
Dealing with the Downhill
This Is the Good News?
Coping I: Amazing Technology
Coping II: Wondrous People
Part Three: Affirming Life
Shift Change!
Reaching Without Arms
Getting On With the Business of Living
Appendix
Selected Annotated Bibliography
Index
Biography
Robert Horn
"Robert Horn has done more real living than most of us ever do."
-From the Preface by C. Everett Koop, M.D., Sc.D., Former U.S. Surgeon General
[Horn] approaches it all with curiosity and humor."
-ALS Newsletter
"This book . . . is both realistic about living with ALS and inspiring in the best sense. Horn shows how he does it and makes it look not exactly easy, but well worth the effort."
-Quest
"How Bob and his family coped-and continue to cope-with disability and terminal illness is an amazing story that readers will find inspiring, heartwarming, and humorous and a celebration of the triumph of life."
The Phi Gamma Delta
"Tethered to life by a feeding tube and a ventilator, Bob Horn rafts us through the narrows and shoals and open spaces of being."
-Richard A. Smith, M.D., Center of Neurological Study, San Diego, CA
"...a book you won't put down and won't put out of your thoughts."
-William A. Anthony, Center of Psychiatric Rehabilitation, Boston University
"...a picturesque tale of the human spirit - honest, wise, compelling, triumphant. And it's pretty funny too."
ˆScott Harris, Los Angeles Times
"Faced with the choice between death and a life all too many would say was not worth living, Robert chose life, and in doing so he has made so many of us realize how much life is worth living."
-C. Everett Koop, Former U.S. Surgeon General
