Smile the story of a face

Ruhl, Sarah, 1974- author.

Large Print 2021

"Sarah Ruhl has just survived a high- risk pregnancy when she discovers the left side of her face is paralyzed. She is assured that 95 percent of Bell's palsy patients experience a full recovery. But Sarah is in the unlucky 5 percent. So Ruhl begins a decade-long search for a cure while grappling with the reality of her new face. In a series of meditations, Ruhl chronicles her journey. She explores the struggle of a body yearning to match its inn...

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Facial paralysis Biography

Ruhl, Sarah, 1974-

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ISBN:

9781432892296

Edition:

Large print edition

Description:

355 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm
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Notes:

Originally published in standard print format: Simon & Schuster, 2021
Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-350)

Contents:

Twins
Opening night
Bed rest
The itch
Bell's palsy
Sir Charles Bell and the Greeks
The NICU
A brief digression on my Catholic God
The NICU, continued
Home
Smile!
Actors and mothers
The Duchenne
Still face and the Tony Awards
The Mona Lisa and illness as metaphor
Three children under the age of five and three kinds of vomit
All the crying Mashas and the concept of a good side
Show me what you've got
The observer and the observed
Celiac disease, or I remember bagels
Childhood illness and the symmetry of siblings
Can you have postpartum depression two years after having babies?
Refuge
I can only imagine
Lizard eye, or kill the ingenue
Hermione, the frozen statue
The neurosurgeon who liked Irishwomen
The good doctor and gratitude
Ding-dong, ding-dong, or grow accustomed to your face
Mirror neurons and narcissus
The fortune cookie
A woman slowly gets better

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3105774

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