03399cam a2200637 4500 565981694 TxAuBib 20220428120000.0 ||||||s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781615195725 1615195726 B07H3DZ6LS Amazon e6d32ce6-1acb-48a9-b6f5-6a2a32d89bdb OverDrive (Reserve ID) 4276998 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Schmidt Kjærgaard, Rikke. The Blink of an Eye [Libby] : A Memoir of Dying—and Learning How to Live Again. The Experiment, 2019. caregiver. meningitis. health. physical therapy. care. brain. Surgery. Bill Bryson. denmark. coma. illness. dying. miracle. near-death experience. Medical. Copenhagen. memoir. beating the odds. ICU. when breath becomes air. locked in. brain on fire. flatline. Diving Bell and the Butterfly. rehabilitation center. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 639kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Biography & Autobiography. Medical. Nonfiction. HTML:<b>"A highly personal, deeply affecting account of what it is to be yanked from a happy, well-ordered life and thrust into a sudden, unimaginable, terrifying darkness. Rikke Schmidt Kjærgaard has done the impossible of putting into words an experience that would seem to be beyond expressing."—from the foreword by Bill Bryson</b><br /> It was New Year's Day. Rikke Schmidt Kjærgaard, a young mother and scientist, was celebrating with family and friends when she was struck down with a sudden fever. Within hours, she'd suffered multiple organ failure and was clinically dead.<br /> Then, brought back to the edge of life—trapped in a near-death coma—she 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 world.<br /> <i>The Blink of an Eye</i> is Rikke's gripping account of being locked inside her own body, and what it took to painstakingly relearn every basic life skill—from breathing and swallowing, speaking and walking, to truly <i>living</i> again. Much more than an account of recovery against all odds—this is, at its heart, a celebration of love, family, and every little thing that matters when life hangs in the balance. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-06-26 20:00:03. Bryson, Bill. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=e6d32ce6-1acb-48a9-b6f5-6a2a32d89bdb&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=e6d32ce6-1acb-48a9-b6f5-6a2a32d89bdb&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=e6d32ce6-1acb-48a9-b6f5-6a2a32d89bdb&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)