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Summary: From a brain tumor physician
Review: Tragic, comic and beautifully written, I will recommend this book to my patients anticipating surgery.
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Summary: Uplifting and Depressing
Review: Uplifting and Depressing: I say this because I had brain surgery as well. It was comforting to hear someone had a similar experience. Depressing, because my memories came back. I read it one year after my surgery. It was theraputic. Although, if I had read it before hand, I think it would have scared the heck out of me. I recommend it to anyone recovering (or knows someone) from surgery.
I loved her humor and her illustrations.
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Summary: The first is always the scariest...
Review: When I was first browsing this book in the shop, I wondered how she could have written this whole book on just one surgery. I myself am a frequent neurosurgery patient, and have had 11 surgeries in the past 14 months. As I started to read, however, I recalled how the first of my surgeries was the scariest because it was all new to me.Suzy Becker does a fantastic job of explaining her story with wit that makes me find humour in my own situation. It is important to keep a good perspective about something so crazy, and Suzy obviously does a great job in doing that.
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Summary: The first is always the scariest...
Review: When I was first browsing this book in the shop, I wondered how she could have written this whole book on just one surgery. I myself am a frequent neurosurgery patient, and have had 11 surgeries in the past 14 months. As I started to read, however, I recalled how the first of my surgeries was the scariest because it was all new to me. Suzy Becker does a fantastic job of explaining her story with wit that makes me find humour in my own situation. It is important to keep a good perspective about something so crazy, and Suzy obviously does a great job in doing that.
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Summary: The Best of Her Brain
Review: You can't put Suzy Becker's book down. I had brain surgery, what's your excuse? has not one ounce of self-pity. What the reader finds is refreshing frankness. And humor. Great humor. Her illustrations are exacting and draw the reader into her emotional turmoil, frustration, and fear. Suzy Becker isn't afraid to let the reader see who she really is--a woman of great talent who strives for perfection in all her many endeavors. Her book is filled with honesty and humanity. Be prepared to laugh with her, feel her anguish, struggles and her enormous capacity for love. I had brain surgery, what's your excuse? is not a book about brain surgery. Rather, it is about the need and importance of being who we are.
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Summary: The Best of Her Brain
Review: You can't put Suzy Becker's book down. I had brain surgery, what's your excuse? has not one ounce of self-pity. What the reader finds is refreshing frankness. And humor. Great humor. Her illustrations are exacting and draw the reader into her emotional turmoil, frustration, and fear. Suzy Becker isn't afraid to let the reader see who she really is--a woman of great talent who strives for perfection in all her many endeavors. Her book is filled with honesty and humanity. Be prepared to laugh with her, feel her anguish, struggles and her enormous capacity for love. I had brain surgery, what's your excuse? is not a book about brain surgery. Rather, it is about the need and importance of being who we are.
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