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Living in Shitville

What an Invisible Brain Injury Feels like

Ren� Ready

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English
Pictures and Words Publishing
15 February 2024
"How do you explain an invisible brain injury to someone

when you look like you're doing fine?

In May 2018, a compressed air accident at the dentist

sent me home with a brain injury.

My 31-year career as an occupational therapist was over.

Welcome to life in Shitville.

Living with brain injury and reading about it in textbooks

were not the same thing.

I hope to provide family members,

friends, coworkers, professionals, caregivers, anyone,

with insights into the daily struggles of living

with brain injury while looking normal.

I hope the easy-to-read layout

will help others with visual processing difficulties

to read about brain injury.

This is a story about the grueling stages of anger,

frustration, grief, and sadness to find the new ""you"".

It took a 9,461-mile solo road trip and time away from home

to find my new identity, meaning, and purpose in life."

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Imprint:   Pictures and Words Publishing
Dimensions:   Height: 279mm,  Width: 216mm,  Spine: 14mm
Weight:   667g
ISBN:   9780999534571
ISBN 10:   0999534572
Pages:   210
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

"Ren� Ready, an occupational therapist, is the author of the memoir ""Living in Shitville - what an invisible brain injury feels like"".She graduated from the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa in 1987 with a bachelor's degree in occupational therapy.Her clinical background provides a unique perspective of the struggles of living with an invisible brain injury.Retired after a brain injury in 2018 during a dentist visit, she now travels in a converted minivan exploring and photographing the western USA.Ren� lives in Washington State with her husband and four wiener dogs. She grows tomatoes in summer, plans road trips and learns to drive the school bus."

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