Moonlight Sonata at the Mayo Clinic
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| Rating | : | 4.79 (841 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0307476383 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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Seeing Through Philip Koplin Nora Gallagher went in search of a diagnosis for a collection of disturbing and mysterious symptoms related to her sight. What she found was in indeed a type of gnosis, a knowledge that comes to those who pass through a series of harrowing, transformative trials to emerge with a new vision of the world in both its mundane and, for lack of a . Beautifully Written--About an Ugly Reality This book chronicles Nora Gallager's journey to what she calls, "Oz." Oz is its own reality, the world one enters upon being seriously ill.I was struck by the title because I am about to drive to Rochester, Minnesota's famed Mayo Clinic for the third time in as many months. My husband is in his own "Oz" --a a place I, by necessity, must visi. Nora Gallagher - Moonlight Sonata at the Mayo Clinic Dane Goodman Because of the quality of her past books, I set aside the day to lower myself into Nora Gallagher's words, to fully immerse in her clear-eyed, hard lived memoir, Moonlight Sonata at the Mayo Clinic. I was in her here-in-now for those hours, fully present inside of an exceptional experience.This is what good art does (music, writing, visual a
A lyrical and honest portrait of illness and the way it changes life and faith, from the award-winning author of Things Seen and Unseen. In the winter of 2009, Nora Gallagher was told she had an inflamed optic nerve, cause unknown, that if untreated would leave her blind. It is also a testament of modern faith—accepting of both science and intellect—and a hard-won revelation of what lies at the heart of ordinary suffering.. With this news, and the search for a diagnosis and treatment, her once busy and fast-moving life tunneled into a quieter country she calls Oz: unfamiliar, slower, deeply rooted in uncertainty and vulnerability. Moonlight Sonata at the Mayo Clinic, written as Gallagher was still recovering, is a moving meditation on serious illness, what helped her through and what didn’t, why a wal
She is also the editorof the award-winning Notes from the Field, a collection of literary essays about theoutdoors. Nora Gallagher is the author of Changing Light, Things Seen and Unseen: A Year Lived in Faith, and Practicing Resurrection: A Memoir of Work, Doubt, Discernment, and Moments of Grace. She sits on the advisory board of the Yale Divinity School.. Her essays, book reviews, an
Not the fantastical place that sprung from the imagination of L. From Booklist Life-changing moments take place on seemingly ordinary days when we least expect it. Most of all, it is the memoir of a writer’s life (“Books were to my family’s house like beds and stoves, the most basic items, necessary for survival”) and the fear of losing one of the most precious tools of not only of the literary realm but of life itself: the gift of sight. When her doctor finds something amiss during a routine eye examination, she begins a long journey on a difficult yellow-brick road. That is