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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463685103321

Autore

Crigler Mojie

Titolo

Get me through tomorrow : a sister's memoir of brain injury and revival / / Mojie Crigler ; designed by A. Shahan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln, [Nebraska] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Nebraska Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-8032-6997-8

0-8032-6999-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (310 p.)

Collana

American Lives

Disciplina

617.4/810443

Soggetti

Brain damage - Patients - United States

Brain damage - Patients - United States - Rehabilitation

Brain damage - Patients - Family relationships - United States

Brothers and sisters - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Dedication""; ""Epigraph""; ""Contents""; ""Prologue""; ""Chapter 1""; ""Chapter 2""; ""Chapter 3""; ""Chapter 4""; ""Chapter 5""; ""Chapter 6""; ""Chapter 7""; ""Chapter 8""; ""Chapter 9""; ""Chapter 10""; ""Chapter 11""; ""Chapter 12""; ""Chapter 13""; ""Chapter 14""; ""Chapter 15""; ""Chapter 16""; ""Chapter 17""; ""Chapter 18""; ""Chapter 19""; ""Chapter 20""; ""Chapter 21""; ""Chapter 22""; ""Chapter 23""; ""Chapter 24""; ""Chapter 25""; ""Chapter 26""; ""Chapter 27""; ""Chapter 28""; ""Chapter 29""; ""Chapter 30""; ""Chapter 31""

""About Mojie Crigler""""Series List""

Sommario/riassunto

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. A string of complications that followed-meningitis, seizures, coma-left him immobile and unresponsive, with his doctors



saying nothing more could be done. Meanwhile, Jason's medical insurance quickly hit its lifetime cap, meaning that his policy would no longer pay for his care. Despite such overwhelming circums