Searching for Normal: A Memoir
Author: Alison Neuman
Publisher: Fireside Publications
Pages:302
Genre: Memoir
Format: Paperback/Kindle
Book Description:
They
thought she was going to die. At three-and-a-half years old, bed-ridden
shivering in a cold sweat, Alison Neuman's tiny fingers wrap around her
mother's for strength. But even at this age, Alison is determined to beat
the odds.
When
years of hospitalization robs her of most of her childhood, she finds joy.
When
children and adults avoid her like the plague, she finds friendship.
When
she cracks her skull in a playground accident, when her math teacher holds her
back a grade, and when she is mistreated by the medical professionals that were
entrusted to help her, she finds strength.
And
even when it becomes clear that the painful disease she has, dermatomyositis,
will leave her wheel-chair bound for the rest of her life, Alison does not let
it defeat her.
She
will conquer it, she will achieve her greatest dreams and along her journey to
finding normal, she will find joy, humor, passion and music.
In
this inspirational true story, Alison Neuman tells of her daily mission to
triumph over pain, to prove wrong the naysayers that say she "cannot",
and become a reminder to us all that can't is only a mindset
and happiness is a choice.
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