To Exist as I Am

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What do you do when life changes in an instant? What does it mean to heal when the world keeps asking what’s wrong? At the age of twenty-two, Grace Spence Green’s spine was broken at the fourth thoracic vertebra. One day, she was in hospital supporting patients, the next she was fighting for her own life. As she struggled to piece together her new life as a wheelchair user, she wondered how she could she be both a doctor and a patient. ‘To Exist As I Am’ chronicles Grace’s journey from idealistic medical student to spinal-injury patient, and then to qualified doctor and vocal disability activist. Her life-affirming reflections question the value we place on independence, in favour of the rich networks of care that bind us together. She asks how we might fight for change, while joyously embracing life as we are.

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‘Surrendering to what happens to us, to find joy and meaning in spite of it, is the bravest and most wise choice we can make and this book is an extraordinary one to inspire just that’ MIRANDA HART’Astonishing, important, and truly radical … this book is completely transformative’ POLLY MORLAND’Essential reading’ XAND VAN TULLEKENIt wasn’t a car crash, but there was a collision. He fell from the third floor. At the age of twenty-two, Grace Spence Green’s spine was broken at the fourth thoracic vertebra, and her life changed tracks. One day, she was in hospital supporting patients, the next she was one.To Exist As I Am traces Grace’s journey back to the wards and back to herself – as words like recovery, independence and community, well and unwell, took on new meanings. Through her extraordinary story, she asks how we might fight for change, while joyously embracing life exactly as we are.’Inspiring and life-affirming’ VIV GROSKOP’It’ll change the way you think about disability. Stop whatever it is that you’re reading and read Grace Spence Green instead’ GAVIN FRANCIS’Unputdownable, awe-inspiring, necessary’ GABRIEL WESTON’So true and so beautiful’ TOM SHAKESPEARE

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Weight 335 g
Dimensions 21.2 × 13 × 1.4 cm
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Imprint

Cover

Hardback

Pages

256

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

610.92 (edition:23)

Readership

College – higher education / Code: F

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