A fragile hold : living with multiple sclerosis and other uncertainties / Ruth Cotton
- Bib ID:
- 8820418
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Cotton, Ruth Maree, 1945-, author
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- National edeposit: Onsite at National Library of Australia
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- Access Conditions:
- National edeposit: Available onsite at the National Library of Australia, State Library of New South Wales
- Description:
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- Hamilton, NSW : Lightleaf Press, 2023
- ©2023
- 1 online resource.
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- text file EPUB 464KB
- ISBN:
- 9780648128625 (EPUB)
- Technical Details:
- Mode of access : Available online.
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What is A fragile hold about? When Ruth Cotton walked out of her neurologist's office in 1997 with a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis, her life changed irrevocably. At the peak of her career and with three children still at home, all she could think of were the uncertainties - especially whether she'd become wheelchair-bound. But Ruth continued her full active life and it wasn't until her retirement that multiple sclerosis exacted its greatest toll - slowly taking her balance and mobility. In 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic confined Ruth indoors, news came that her husband's cancer - melanoma, diagnosed years before - was accelerating. Overwhelmed by a sense of life's fragility, Ruth turned to writing to make sense of it all. As she gives close attention to her immediate environment, a more mindful way of being and thinking unfolds. A Fragile Hold reveals with warmth and unflinching honesty the daily, intimate scenes of a life with multiple sclerosis.
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