LEADER 03499oam 2200421 450 001 9910816041603321 005 20210429174759.0 010 $a0-87565-764-8 035 $a(CKB)5590000000006427 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6398018 035 $a(OCoLC)1182019749 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse93679 035 $a(EXLCZ)995590000000006427 100 $a20210429d2020 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aWith one hand tied behind my brain $ea memoir of life after stroke /$fAvrel Seale 210 1$aFort Worth, Texas :$cTCU Press,$d[2020] 210 4$d©2020 215 $a1 online resource (1 online resource) 311 $a0-87565-767-2 327 $aIf We Could Stand the Weather -- Texas Flood -- Life by the Drop -- Family Matters -- Lookin' Out the Window -- Things I Used to Do -- Slight Return -- Empty Arms -- Up on Cripple Creek -- The People in Your Neighborhood -- Doctor, Doctor -- A Gift to be Simple -- Head Games -- I'm My Own Grandpa -- Home at Last -- Turn the Page -- All I Ever Need Is You -- Working Man -- Somebody That I Used to Know -- I Saw the Light(s) -- Kinvarra's Child -- September -- Today Is Mine -- Nature Boy -- Pancho and Lefty. 330 $a"Most would not expect a book about a stroke to be entertaining, but this memoir will force you to laugh through a tragedy, then cry, then laugh again. Avrel Seale was fifty, did not smoke or drink, had low blood pressure, and had hiked more than two hundred miles the year a stroke nearly ended his life. In an instant, he was teleported into the body of an old man-unbalanced, shaky, spastic, and half-paralyzed. Overnight, he was plunged into a world of brain surgeons, nurses, insurance case managers, and an abundance of therapists. Beginning three weeks before his stroke to set the stage, Seale leads us through the harrowing day of his stroke and emergency brain surgery with minute-by-minute intensity. We then follow him through ICU, a rehab hospital, and a neuro-recovery group-living center, where we meet a memorable cast of other stroke survivors and also those recovering from auto accidents and gunshots. Finally home, Seale leads us through a new life of firsts, including returning to work, to driving, to playing guitar, to camping, and even to writing a book-all with one hand. What emerges from his humor ("elegant but devastating") is a revealing critique of the hospital experience, the insurance industry, and rehab culture. And his nothing-off-the-table quest for recovery shows both the sobering struggles and inspiring possibilities of life after a stroke in twenty-first century America. -- AVREL SEALE lives in Austin with his wife, Kirstin, and three sons. He has been a newspaper reporter and columnist and has spent much of his career at the University of Texas at Austin, as editor of its alumni magazine, speechwriter for its president, and as a writer for its news, marketing, and development offices"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aCerebrovascular disease$xPatients$zTexas$vBiography 608 $aAutobiographies.$2lcgft 615 0$aCerebrovascular disease$xPatients 676 $a616.810092 700 $aSeale$b Avrel$f1967-$01655819 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910816041603321 996 $aWith one hand tied behind my brain$94008359 997 $aUNINA