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Author
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Language
English
Description
"Provides a practical guide for the general public and medical professionals. Dr. Louis R. Caplan, one of the world's leading experts, guides readers through the subject in a straightforward and accessible manner. He offers information and advice that readers will find immediately useful: the medical conditions and other factors that create risk, stroke symptoms, abnormalities that doctors look for, tests available to evaluate strokes, complications...
Author
Publisher
Hay House, Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Mike Dow is a best-selling author, psychotherapist, and relationship expert. So why is he writing a book about stroke? Well, what you probably don't know about Dr. Mike is that his younger brother, David, is a stroke survivor. What's more, David's stroke happened when he only 10 years old. This means most of Dr. Mike's teenage years were spent witnessing what his family was dealing with trying to find the best treatments for David. He struggled...
Author
Publisher
Vanderbilt University Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Dr. David Spence offers expert advice designed to help patients reduce their risk of having a stroke by up to seventy-five percent, with an overview of day-to-day measures that can be taken by both the patient and their doctor.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Description
Jimmy Tock comes into the world on the very night his grandfather leaves it. As a violent storm rages outside the hospital, Rudy Tock spends long hours walking the corridors between the expectant fathers' waiting room and his dying father's bedside. It's a strange vigil made all the stranger when, at the very height of the storm's fury, Josef Tock suddenly sits up in bed and speaks coherently for the frist and last time since his stroke. What he...
Author
Language
English
Description
When Claire Barclay receives news that her beloved stepfather has had a stroke, she?s more than a little shaken. Leo is her last real relative, and his own children rarely check up on the old man. Claire and her husband, Art, leave New York and fly back to Scotland to care for him during the summer. Their visit makes clear that Leo is no longer capable of living on his own, but he is determined to stay in his beloved old house. Art comes up with the...
10) The fixer
Author
Language
English
Description
When former investigative reporter Rick Hoffman loses his job, fiancée, and apartment, his only option is to move back into -- and renovate -- the home of his miserable youth, now empty and in decay since the stroke that put his father in a nursing home. As Rick starts to pull apart the old house, he makes an electrifying discovery -- millions of dollars hidden in the walls. It's enough money to completely transform Rick's life -- and everything...
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Christine Hyung-Oak Lee woke up with a headache on New Year?s Eve 2006. By that afternoon, she saw the world?quite literally?upside down. By New Year?s Day, she was unable to form a coherent sentence. And after hours in the ER, days in the hospital, and multiple questions and tests, she learned that she had had a stroke. For months, Lee outsourced her memories to her notebook. It is from these memories that she has constructed this frank and compelling...
19) The last gift
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Abbas has never told anyone about his past--before he was a sailor on the high seas, before he met his wife Maryam outside a Boots in Exeter, before they settled into a quiet life in Norwich with their children, Jamal and Hanna. Now, at the age of sixty-three, he suffers a collapse that renders him bedbound and unable to speak about things he thought he would one day have to."--
