Tell me the planets : stories of brain injury and what it means to survive /
by Platts-Mills, Ben.
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BookPublisher: UK : Penguin Books, 2019Description: 243 pages ; 20 cm.ISBN: 9780241976838 (pbk.) :; 0241976839 (pbk.) :.Classification number: 362.1968 PLASubject(s): Brain damage -- Patients -- Rehabilitation | Brain damage -- Patients -- Services for | Health and Fitness | Health and WellbeingSummary: Matthew has a meticulously logical mind. He is intelligent, compassionate and fiercely loyal. He also has a brain injury. When Matthew underwent surgery to remove a life-threatening cyst in the middle of his brain, he was left with extreme fatigue, a difficulty forming new memories and with a tendency to confabulate - to 'remember', with absolute conviction, events that have not occurred. In 'Tell Me the Planets,' Ben Platts-Mills tells stories about his work with survivors of brain injury, offering a rare glimpse into the world as seen through their eyes: charismatic Danny, whose criminal past has left him paralysed down one side, but who now helps others worse off than himself; Sid, whose memory for the present lasts only moments; and Liah, who is caught in a battle with the care system threatening to make her homeless.
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| Book - Adult Paperback | Southport Library | Adult Non-Fiction | 362.1968 PLA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 002964639X |
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Originally published: UK: Fig Tree, 2018.
Matthew has a meticulously logical mind. He is intelligent, compassionate and fiercely loyal. He also has a brain injury. When Matthew underwent surgery to remove a life-threatening cyst in the middle of his brain, he was left with extreme fatigue, a difficulty forming new memories and with a tendency to confabulate - to 'remember', with absolute conviction, events that have not occurred. In 'Tell Me the Planets,' Ben Platts-Mills tells stories about his work with survivors of brain injury, offering a rare glimpse into the world as seen through their eyes: charismatic Danny, whose criminal past has left him paralysed down one side, but who now helps others worse off than himself; Sid, whose memory for the present lasts only moments; and Liah, who is caught in a battle with the care system threatening to make her homeless.
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