The unmapped mind : a memoir of neurology, incurable disease and learning how to live /
by Donlan, Christian.
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BookPublisher: UK : Viking, 2018Description: x, 292 pages ; 21 cm.ISBN: 9780241305287 (hbk.) :; 0241305284 (hbk.) :.Classification number: 362.1968 DONSubject(s): Donlan, Christian -- Health | Multiple sclerosis -- Patients -- Great Britain | Multiple sclerosis -- Popular works | Health and Fitness | Health and WellbeingSummary: Shortly after his daughter Leontine was born, Christian Donlan's world shifted an inch to the left. He started to miss light switches and door handles when reaching for them. He would injure himself in a hundred stupid ways every day. First playful and then maddening, these strange experiences were the early symptoms of multiple sclerosis, an incurable and degenerative neurological disease. As his young daughter starts to investigate the world around her, he too finds himself exploring a new landscape - the shifting and bewildering territory of the brain. He is a tourist in his own body, a stranger in a place that plays bizarre tricks on him, from dizzying double vision to mystifying memory loss.
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| 362.1968 DOD About dementia : for people with learning disabilities / | 362.1968 DON Dear dementia : | 362.1968 DON Dear dementia : | 362.1968 DON The unmapped mind : a memoir of neurology, incurable disease and learning how to live / | 362.1968 ECC I love the bones of you / | 362.1968 EDI I know what you are : the true story of a lonely little girl abused by those she trusted most / | 362.1968 ELL When someone you love has dementia |
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Shortly after his daughter Leontine was born, Christian Donlan's world shifted an inch to the left. He started to miss light switches and door handles when reaching for them. He would injure himself in a hundred stupid ways every day. First playful and then maddening, these strange experiences were the early symptoms of multiple sclerosis, an incurable and degenerative neurological disease. As his young daughter starts to investigate the world around her, he too finds himself exploring a new landscape - the shifting and bewildering territory of the brain. He is a tourist in his own body, a stranger in a place that plays bizarre tricks on him, from dizzying double vision to mystifying memory loss.
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