Pride and a Daily Marathon
- ISBN-10
- 0715623850
- ISBN-13
- 9780715623855
- Category
- Nervous system
- Pages
- 194
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1991
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic
- Author
- Jonathan Cole
Description
At the age of 19 Ian Waterman was suddenly struck down at work by a rare neurological illness that deprived him of all sensation below the neck. He fell on the floor in a heap, unable to stand or control his limbs, having lost the sense of joint position and proprioception, of that sixth sense of his body in space, which we all take for granted. After months in a neurological ward he was judged incurable and condemned to a life of wheelchair dependence. This book is by his physician, Jonathan Cole. It tells the story, including a clear clinical description of a rare condition, of how Waterman reclaimed a life of full mobility against all expectations, by mental effort and sheer courage.
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