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Book Synopsis"Why do we fall ill? How do we get better? When his two-year-old develops epilepsy, Shane Neilson, a doctor, struggles to obtain timely medical care for his son. 'Saving' shares his familys journey through the medical system, but also Shanes own personal journey as a father who feels powerless when faced with his childs illness. It entwines these stories with Shanes personal history of mental illness as a child and his professional experience with disability. By exploring the theme of family, Shane Nielse manages to show that, over time, it is possible to not only escape the wreckage of the past, but to celebrate living with disability in the present."
Trade ReviewShane Neilson is a brilliant writer and his work deserves to be better known. There hasnt been such a poignant and harrowing memoir of fatherhood in Canada since Ian Browns The Boy in The Moon. Karen Connelly, author of The Change Room
Saving, Dr. Shane Neilsons brilliant, breathless memoir of his quadruple role of father-doctor-patient-and-husband is a heart-stopper. The compassionate physician catapults us into his young sons epileptic seizures, his delicate daughters responses in poems with suicidal thoughts, his own epilepsy and inherited mental illness and, last, the work-life see-saw with his level-headed veterinarian wife. Stunningly candid, this story of a young family whiplashed by the very medical system Neilson is part of lets vulnerability triumph as illnesses and remedies spin. Where is the line between devotion and self-care? It shifts hourly in Neilsons profound book. Much gets saved in Saving: four splendid, embattled livesplus sanity, creativity, and wonder. Molly Peacock, author of The Analyst and The Paper Garden
Table of ContentsTABLE OF CONTENTSLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONSZEE KAZ PUT AWAY YOUR TOYS THE RECOVERY POSITION CODA BIBLIOGRAPHYDISCLAIMER
