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At seventeen years old, Ruthie Lindsey is hit by an ambulance near her home in rural Louisiana. She's given a five percent chance of survival and one percent chance of walking again. One month later after a spinal fusion surgery, Ruthie defies the odds, leaving the hospital on her own two feet. Just a few years later, newly married and living in Nashville, Ruthie begins to experience debilitating pain. Her case confounds doctors and after numerous rounds of testing, imaging, and treatment, they prescribe narcotic painkillers--lots of them. Ruthie has become bedridden, dependent on…
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4 editions- Audiobook · English · 2020Simon & Schuster Audio and Blackstone Publishing · 1 pages · 9781797107042
- Other · English · 2021Gallery Books · 288 pages · 9781982107925
- Other · English · 2020Gallery Books · 288 pages · 9781982107932
- Other · English · 2020Gallery Books · 288 pages · 9781982107918
Chronic painPatientsBiographyPainTreatmentPositive psychologyOptimismSelf-actualization (Psychology)