Look Up for Yes
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| Rating | : | 4.26 (901 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1568361718 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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An amazing woman that has the strength to write about the A Review of: Look Up For Yes, by Julia Tavalaro & Richard TaysonImagine waking up unable to move or speak, and having no idea where you are or what is going on. This is what happened to Julia Tavalaro at the age of 32 years old. The author Ms. Tavalaro is an empowering woman that fought through some of the toughest situations, when most would just give up and stop trying. An amazing woman that has the strength to write about the rollercoaster of a life she had before an. "Amazing" according to nicole mcewen. My mom recommend this book to me when I was in High school. This was the first book I ever complete and it changed my life. She tells an amazing story in an unbelievable way.. Look up, and up, and up, and up! A Customer Those who weap because they have no shoes should meet this woman who has no feet, no hands, no voice, no normalcy. And yet she greets the day with poetry and refuses -- against odds few people could bear -- to loosen her grip on reality, on the future, on hope. Where some autobiographical writers might seek our pity, Julia demands our respect. Where some labor to generate tears, Julia aims to generate cheers -- and at times outbursts of profanity. Her story is a fast, e
Finally, in 1973, a young speech therapist named Arlene Kraat suspected Julia could comprehend what was happening around her. Her entire body paralyzed by stroke, she tried to speak and no one heard. Eventually, she began to compose poems that drew on the memories of her life before the stroke, reviving the aggressively sexual, daredevil life she had once lived and re-establishing her own sanity.. Nearly broken by recurring bouts of pneumonia and fevers, and by the cruel and often abusive nurses who hated assuming responsibility for her life, Julia began to fight back. While she lay there, the Vietnam War raged and waned, a man walked on the moon, and an actor she knew from B-movies was elected president. With Arlene pointing to each letter on a letter board, Julia began to use her eyes to spell out her thoughts and relate the turmoil of her terrible years in captivity. Warehoused in a public hospital with other "incurables", she was known to all as "the vegetable". Thus her nightmare began. Gradually, Julia Tav
When Julia Tavalaro opened her eyes after spending seven months in a coma, she awoke to a nightmare. She spent the next six years languishing in her bed, and although able to hear everything around her, she was unable to communicate. After mastering the technique, Tavalaro went on to write poetry about her life both before and after the stroke that crippled her. Tavlaro is able to recall her past in minute detail and weaves her memoir from threads of the past, her present, and her poems that transcend the two. Look Up for Yes is the courageous story of a woman struggling to find her voice and make it heard. Finally, a young speech therapist broke through Tavalaro's isolation by composing a method by which Tavalaro could spell out words with her eyes. Paralyzed and unable to speak, Tavalaro had no way of making them take notice. . Nobody in the hospital ward to which she had been consigned even noticed that she was alert