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Uncomfortably Numb - A memoir About the Life-Altering Diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis - cover
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Uncomfortably Numb - A memoir About the Life-Altering Diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis

Meredith O’Brien

Narrator Erin deWard

Publisher: Tantor Audio

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About losing one's life as it was once imagined, and the ultimate, uneasy peace that's achieved with the permanent uncertainty which accompanies living with a chronic illness. 
 
 
 
It begins with numbness on her left leg. Then it spreads. Even though an MRI finds a "mass" on her brainstem, it takes two more years for Meredith O'Brien to learn what is causing that numbness. Months after her sixty-five-year-old mother dies from a fast-moving cancer, weeks after her father is hospitalized and she experiences an unexpected job change, she learns she has multiple sclerosis. 
 
 
 
Suddenly, Meredith, a married mother of three teens, has to figure out how to move forward into a life she no longer recognizes. 
 
  
 
Reimagining her life as a writer and an educator, as a mother and a spouse, she has to adjust to the restrictions MS imposes on her. 
 
 
 
It is a life, altered.
Duration: about 9 hours (09:22:34)
Publishing date: 2022-12-20; Unabridged; Copyright Year: 2020. Copyright Statment: —