The riveting true story of a life-threatening coma, a miraculous awakening, and the long quest to regain what was lost.
The day Lindsey O’Connor’s fifth baby entered the world, was the day she left. For 47 days she lay suspended in a medically-induced coma, hovering in nothingness. The time before and after her long sleep were spliced together in O’Connor’s memory. The time in the middle, too long for her loved ones, and time erased for her. The miracle her family desperately prayed for was a miracle that Lindsey missed. She awoke to a world that kept moving without her and began the long journey to love her newborn daughter, to search for her identity, meaning and lost and found love. Applying her journalism background, O’Connor set out to discover what happened during her time lost as she does when researching a piece of literary journalism about someone else. In a strange twist, she reported her own story.
In
The Long Awakening,
O’Connor beautifully and bravely shares her journey to re-stitch her
life after a life-altering trauma and her continuing search for self. On
August 30, 2002 at the age of 41, O’Connor experienced childbirth
complications and received
over 20 units of blood, two times the amount of blood in her body,
while giving birth to her daughter, Caroline. Doctors put her into a
medically-induced coma to allow her brain, lungs and body to heal.
Initially her doctors did not know what was medically
wrong, and there was no promise she would wake up. While in a coma,
Lindsey suffered multi-organ failure and was close to death several
times, leaving her family on an emotional roller coaster.
For
47 excruciating days her family waited with Lindsay’s expected death
looming. Miraculously, she woke up. With no memory of the time spent in a
coma, in her mind she was holding
her newborn only hours ago. She knew who and where she was, but other
things took much longer to know. Faced with time that kept moving when
her time had stopped, she began her recovery – her long awakening.
I did read a fair amount of this book but it just didn't catch my attention as i thought it might. which was disappointing since the whole story is intruiging. It was sort of a let down to me that i just couldn't get into it.
thanks to revell for providing me with this for review. these thoughts are my own i wasn't compensated in any way
Available October 2013 at your favorite bookseller from Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group.
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