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Summary: Useful for a young stroke survivor
Comment: I was a bit younger than Robert when I suffered my stroke, surely it was an old person's thing? This book dispels that myth, strokes can happen to anyone at any age. This book helped me understand that I wasn't the freak I thought I was because I had a stroke at 30. Robert's experiences mirror my own and puts the right message out that perserverance is a key to a good recovery. This book is excellent reading for a younger stroke survivor, it is a book I wish would have been available when I had my stroke as I entered an unknown world and thought strokes didn't happen to the likes of me. How wrong I was and now I appreciate things I previously took for granted, this book shows me I'm not alone.
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Summary: A window on a different world
Comment: I want to be a physiotherapist. I volunteer half a day a week at my local hospital, where I help the physiotherapists who work with the stroke patients. This book helped me understand a little better what it is that the patients go through. Everyone's different of course, and this account is just how Robert McCrumb felt about his particular stroke. But nevertheless, it has helped me enormously and I feel like I can understand better what those people are going through now. When I qualify as a physiotherapist in three years time, I'd like to think this book would've helped me to learn something I probably won't be taught on my course.
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Summary: opens your eyes to different aspects of stroke. Good read
Comment: My year off, tells the story about the experiences of stroke. It includes the psychological and physical sides of stroke. It highlights problems that many people may not think about. It is autobiographical and also includes the author's experiences before the stroke. It includes how the care copes. This book would useful for other stroke suffers and cares, as it go through the process of the stroke and how the author and his wife deal with the psychological aspects. It is also an enjoyable read for all
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Summary: Essential listening for stroke survivors and their partners
Comment: I read the book shortly after my husband (aged 55) had a severe stroke. He was unable to read the book because of visual problems but was lent the tape. His comment was that all stroke survivors should have this tape played to them - it struck so many chords - a brilliant and inspiring account of life after stroke.
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Summary: Excellent and moving
Comment: I heard Robert McCrum on Radio 4's Desert Island Discs and then decided I MUST read his book. He sounds a remarkable man. Now having read the book I have huge admiration for him and his wife. It is very inspiring and I feel I was there too. His writing and observations are brilliant.
