In the Shadow of MemoryIn December 1988 Floyd Skloot was stricken by a virus that targeted his brain, leaving him totally disabled and utterly changed. In the Shadow of Memory is an intimate picture of what it is like to find oneself possessed of a ravaged memory and unstable balance and confronted by wholesale changes in both cognitive and emotional powers. Skloot also explores the gradual reassembling of himself, putting together his scattered memories, rediscovering the meaning of childhood and family history, and learning a new way to be at home in the world. Combining the author’s skills as a poet and novelist, this book finds humor, meaning, and hope in the story of a fragmented life made whole by love and the courage to thrive. |
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Page 117
... learned to ride a horse . A horse ! Cossacks rode horses , Polish landowners rode horses , but people in families like my father's did not ride horses . When my father learned to ride , he learned English saddle , the gentle- man's way ...
... learned to ride a horse . A horse ! Cossacks rode horses , Polish landowners rode horses , but people in families like my father's did not ride horses . When my father learned to ride , he learned English saddle , the gentle- man's way ...
Page 148
... learned to walk again , watching him negotiate the ten steps up to our door from the street , seeing him graduate from crutches to canes to a built - up shoe as he began walking again , meeting him at the train station when he came home ...
... learned to walk again , watching him negotiate the ten steps up to our door from the street , seeing him graduate from crutches to canes to a built - up shoe as he began walking again , meeting him at the train station when he came home ...
Page 203
... learned about acceptance on the line . It would require a measure of acceptance on both sides . What I was not prepared for was how badly I would perform in every test . I knew my limitations but had never measured them . Over a dozen ...
... learned about acceptance on the line . It would require a measure of acceptance on both sides . What I was not prepared for was how badly I would perform in every test . I knew my limitations but had never measured them . Over a dozen ...
Contents
Thinking with a Damaged Brain | 3 |
Confessions of a Demented Man | 18 |
In the Shadow of Memory | 29 |
Copyright | |
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