The Blink of an Eye: A Memoir of Dying - And Learning How to Live Again - Softcover

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Acclaimed by Bill Bryson as “spellbinding and harrowing,” the story of one woman’s dramatic recovery from life-threatening illness At the age of 38, Danish scientist Rikke Schmidt Kj�rgaard is struck down by an acute bout of bacterial meningitis. Weeks later, she wakes from a coma in intensive care to find herself “locked in,” unable to show she is conscious except by blinking her eyes. Despite a mere 5 percent chance of survival, she makes a miraculous recovery and returns to the world—painfully learning how to breathe, move, eat, and speak again, even resume her work as a scientist. The Blink of an Eye is a celebration of love, family, and every little thing that matters when life is in the balance—by a writer uniquely positioned to describe the journey from death back to life.

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Book Description Softcover. Condition: new. Reprint. A highly personal deeply affecting account of what it is to be yanked from a happy wellordered life and thrust into a sudden unimaginable terrifying darkness Rikke Schmidt Kjrgaard has done the impossible of putting into words an experience that would seem to be beyond expressingfrom the foreword by Bill BrysonIt was New Years Day Rikke Schmidt Kjrgaard a young mother and scientist was celebrating with family and friends when she was struck down with a sudden fever Within hours shed suffered multiple organ failure and was clinically deadThen brought back to the edge of lifetrapped in a neardeath comashe was given a 5 percent chance of survival She awoke to find herself completely paralyzed with blinking as her sole means of communicating with the outside worldThe Blink of an Eye is Rikkes gripping account of being locked inside her own body and what it took to painstakingly relearn every basic life skillfrom breathing and swallowing speaking and walking to truly living again Much more than an account of recovery against all oddsthis is at its heart a celebration of love family and every little thing that matters when life hangs in the balance. Seller Inventory # DADAX1615195718

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