Uncomfortably Numb: a memoir about the life-altering diagnosis of multiple sclerosis

Uncomfortably Numb: a memoir about the life-altering diagnosis of multiple sclerosis

by Meredith O'Brien
Uncomfortably Numb: a memoir about the life-altering diagnosis of multiple sclerosis

Uncomfortably Numb: a memoir about the life-altering diagnosis of multiple sclerosis

by Meredith O'Brien

Paperback

$16.00 
  • SHIP THIS ITEM
    Qualifies for Free Shipping
    Choose Expedited Shipping at checkout for delivery by Friday, March 22
  • PICK UP IN STORE
    Check Availability at Nearby Stores

Related collections and offers


Overview

About losing one's life as it was once imagined, and the ultimate, uneasy peace that's achieved with the permanent uncertainty which accompanies living with a chronic illness.

It begins with numbness on her left leg. Then it spreads. Even though an MRI finds a "mass" on her brainstem, it takes two more years for Meredith O'Brien to learn what is causing that numbness. Months after her 65-year-old mother dies from a fast-moving cancer, weeks after her father is hospitalized and she experiences an unexpected job change, she learns she has multiple sclerosis.

Suddenly, Meredith, a married mother of three teens, has to figure out how to move forward into a life she no longer recognizes.

Reimagining her life as a writer and an educator, as a mother and a spouse, she has to adjust to the restrictions MS imposes on her.

It is a life, altered.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781948018708
Publisher: Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing
Publication date: 03/03/2020
Pages: 266
Sales rank: 665,353
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.60(d)
From the B&N Reads Blog

Customer Reviews