When I Died: Rx for Traumatic Brain Injury

A remarkable story of the author's recovery of her identity after a medical mystery, When I Died is an account of how a woman struggled against odds to regain her life. When the author woke up in an acute rehab, she had no memory of the month in an Intensive Care Unit on complete life support, the coma or cardiac arrest that brought her to this facility. A month earlier, she had a vibrant and active life. Now she could barely function. In a captivating narrative, Carolyn Gold tells the astonishing true story of her plunge into brain damage, psychosis, and left side muscle wasting. Anyone facing a difficult illness could benefit from the breadth of recovery strategies Carolyn employs to return to life.