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Uncomfortably Numb

A Memoir About the Life-Altering Diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis

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Uncomfortably Numb

By: Meredith O’Brien
Narrated by: Erin deWard
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About losing one's life as it was once imagined, and the ultimate, uneasy peace that's achieved with the permanent uncertainty which accompanies living with a chronic illness.

It begins with numbness on her left leg. Then it spreads. Even though an MRI finds a "mass" on her brainstem, it takes two more years for Meredith O'Brien to learn what is causing that numbness. Months after her sixty-five-year-old mother dies from a fast-moving cancer, weeks after her father is hospitalized and she experiences an unexpected job change, she learns she has multiple sclerosis.

Suddenly, Meredith, a married mother of three teens, has to figure out how to move forward into a life she no longer recognizes.

Reimagining her life as a writer and an educator, as a mother and a spouse, she has to adjust to the restrictions MS imposes on her.

It is a life, altered.

©2020 Meredith O’Brien (P)2022 Tantor
Medical Physical Illness & Disease Professionals & Academics Memoir
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I was diagnosed with MS in Nov 2012 and I can completely relate to everything in this book
Great book I would definitely recommend 👌

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