Product Description: On August 4, 2004, Jason Crigler was onstage in a New York City nightclub when a blood vessel burst in his brain. The thirty-four-year-old guitarist, a fixture in the downtown music scene who had played with Marshall Crenshaw, Linda Thompson, and John Cale, narrowly survived the bleed...read more

Product Description: In the summer of 2005, Karen Gonzalez and her husband receive the one phone call every parent dreads: their beautiful daughter, Bianca, who risked injury every time she competed in equestrian jumping instead has been in a horrific motorcycle accident, and she hadn't been wearing a helmet...read more

A personal story of crisis, commitment, and hope from the best-selling author of Memoirs of An Ex-Prom Queen  One day it happens, the dreaded thing that will change your life forever, the more dreadful because, though you’ve half expected it, you don’t know what form it will take or when it will come, and whether or not you will rise to the challenge. For Alix Kates Shulman, it happened on July 22, 2004, at two a.m. on a coastal Maine island in a remote seaside cabin with no electricity, running water, or road to reach it—where the very isolation that makes it a perfect artist’s retreat renders it as risky as life itself. She woke to find that her beloved seventy-five-year-old husband had fallen the nine feet from their sleeping loft and was lying on the floor below, naked and deathly still. Though Scott would survive, he suffered an injury that left him seriously brain impaired. He was the same—but not the same.  Each of us has imagined with dread the occurrence of just such an event outside our control that will permanently alter the course of our lives. In this elegant memoir, Shulman describes life on the other side: the ongoing anxieties and risks—and surprising rewards—she experiences as she reorganizes her world and her priorities to care for her husband and discovers that what might have seemed a grim life sentence to some has evolved into something unexpectedly rich.

Product Description: Book by K/H (PATHWAYS)

Presents the story of a woman's courageous battle for the life of her son David, who was in a persistent coma and vegetative state following a motorcycle accident, but who can now speak, walk with the aid of a walker, and live in his own home with the help of a caregiver, revealing why faith and persistence can be more powerful than a doctor's diagnosis. Original.

Product Description: As a result of strokes, aneurysms, brain tumors, auto accidents, and common falls, more than two million people suffer brain injuries each year, making acquired brain injury (ABI) a leading cause of disability. Norm Camp suffered a massive coronary attack that stopped his heart; by the time paramedics could reach him, his oxygen-deprived brain had suffered considerable damage...read more

Tells the story of Phineas Gage, a railroad construction foreman who survived eleven years years after an accident in which a thirteen-pound iron rod shot through his brain.

Product Description: Shortly after 9:00 P.M. on April 19, 1989, a young woman jogs alone near 102nd Street in New York City's Central Park. She is attacked, raped, savagely beaten, and left for dead. Hours later she arrives at the emergency room -- comatose -- with a fractured skull, an 85-degree body temperature, and she has lost so much blood that her doctors believe it's a miracle she's still alive...read more

A poignant, life-affirming memoir describes how a vacation boating accident forever changed the lives of Cathy Crimmins and her husband, Alan, when Alan, a successful attorney, is severely injured, in a deep coma with brain damage, and reflects on what happened to the family after Alan woke up. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

Product Description: Book by Schmelzkopf, Richard Edward

Product Description: In January 1996, a van speeding through a red light ended the life Kara Swanson had known. She suddenly joined the 2 million Americans who suffer brain injury each year. It was like being thrust into a foreign country with no map, no way to speak the language, no directions home...read more

Product Description: After a serious car accident in which she suffered severe head trauma and was partially blinded, Dr. Stumbo was diagnosed with traumatic brain injury and given the devastating verdict, no hope for improvement. This is a fascinating first-hand account of this TBI survivor...read more

Product Description: Journey Through Brain Trauma is the true story of Louise Morningstar's struggle to help her daughter recover from devastating brain damage. The Morningstars' heroic story will inspire and inform all those who are struggling with rehabilitation from a brain injury.

Product Description: the author shows us how the devastation of a lifetime can be used to find hope and purpose where none seemingly exists.

Product Description: "After being pronounced clinically dead and wavering between life and death from a head injury, Martin Krieg regained consciousness but was paralyzed and completely helpless. The book tells what it feels like to be in this state and how a victim of head injury reacts to strange and terrifying surroundings -- powerful, seductive forces which pull the patient from the outside world into nothingness...read more

Product Description: This is the story of Brian, a college student headed for a normal adulthood whose car strikes a lightpole. He suffers a head injury with severe brain damage. His life course changes dramatically while the family struggles to cope with his possible death, and then, with a quite changed brother and son...read more