Coma Books

This is the best set of information on coma that I have found.

Firstly, am sorry that this book is out of print, for it provides critical information to people who wants to help their family members and friends recover from brain injuries that are happening so frequently throughout the world.

This book, and the information it contains, is a gift to humankind. For I have personally witness people who are functionally blind, mute and immobile got themselves to read, talk, & walk with the procedures described.

The book gives a good overview on the principles out of which treatment procedures are developed. These treatment methods are primarily formulated at the Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential in Philadelphia. Many people around the world go to the Institutes for help. The programs are considered extremely challenging to do. It requires a lot of determination, love as well as pure & simple sanity.

I read this book when it first came out and I loved it. It kept me up for 2 nights and the ending was very unexpected. Roberta DeCaprio has written another wonderful book called "The Vanity." Which is a continuation of her first book. But this book can also be read as a complete other worldly story on it's own.
I can normally figure out the ending in mysteries, but both endings to these two books were a surprise to me. If you like the first book you will love the second.

Morning sickness is not just an English-speaking problem.. and it affects every nationality, geographical region, all ages. it's heartening to see there is help available to Spanish speaking women and their families! bravo!~

helping women find solutions to their nausea and vomiting problems early in pregnancy can help reduce the staggering costs associated with it.. financially and emotionally.

A must book for phase one Master of Neurology,Neurosurgery and critical care medicine,anaethesiology of the University Sains Malaysia courses.All residents must read this!Understanding Coma makes prevention better than cure!!!

This a very good "small" book. If you are a neurologist in training this will be for shure a very usefull guide. It's easy to read and has excelent examples.

I used this book in my classroom. My students found it easy to read and very moving. Hereare some comments they made about the book. I enjoyed the book. It is very interesting and easy to get in to. ( David D.) I think the book is inspiring to all. (Dan) I just want to say that the book was good. I enjoyed it. (Tony L.) Your book was a new experience for me. The story really touched me. (Marc R.) I really enjoyed the book. The reason I enjoyed the book is because it let me know that I should never give up hope. (Jermaine T.)

No No The Saddest: Poems is a moving work of free-verse poetry that reflects upon great tragedy. Author Alan Bern lost his wife to a ruptured aneurysm that left her permanently brain damaged. She gave birth a healthy son three months after the trauma, and died four years later without knowing that she had brought a child into the world. A moving and poignant collection of coping with the loss of a loved one streched out over the long, terrible course of years. Ode to the Nursing Home: To leave you is to kill you, / To leave you is to leave you with Hades, / and he will soon hurt you. / To leave you is to hurt you / directly on your flat heart, / still spinning, flagrante.

Me ha gustado mucho este libro, lo considero muy interesante, para cualquier persona con deseos de superacion, no importa la edad.

I was fortunate to be invited by Mike to the recent launch of his new book, NOTES FROM A COMA, at Nimmo's (near the Spanish Arch in Galway). Highly successful launch, packed to the rafters with people.

The premise of NOTES FROM A COMA is completely intriguing and I'm looking forward to the read. I now own the '1st Signed One' as Mike incribed it to me. The story, ah well, there's more than one, almost parallel universes (I love those things - and I myself believe they exist). Oh, there, I digress. But Mike makes one do that. NOTES FROM A COMA is the story of a Romanian orphan adopted by a Co. Mayo bachelor, Anthony O'Malley. As the book's blurb states " rescued from the squalor of a Romanian orphanage, and adopted by the rural community of west Mayo, the child that is named J.J. O'Malley should have grown up happy. The boy has no gift for it, though, and his new life has a brutal way of giving him plenty to be unhappy about."

Eventually JJ suffers a mental breakdown and volunteers for an improbable government project which has been set up to explore the possibility of using deep coma as a future option within the EU penal system. When his coma goes online the nation turns to watch and JJ is suddenly elevated to the status of cultural icon. Sex symbol, existential hero, T-shirt philosopher - his public now threatens to obscure the man himself. The ultimate reality show!

In the parallel story, five narrators - his father, neighbour, teacher, public representative, and sweetheart - tell us the story of his life... To Mike McCormack this is crucial. Mike believes that our identities are safeguarded and held in trust by those who love us.

As I said - completely intriguing premise.

Mike grew up on a farm in Louisburgh in Mayo. Today he's the writer in residence at UCG (University College Galway). It's taken him seven years to write this book. As he says himself, he's a slow writer. He has two previous books: GETTING IT IN THE HEAD (which won many awards, including the Rooney Prize) and CROWE'S REQUIEM.