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Crash: A Mother, a Son, and the Journey from Grief to Gratitude
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After twenty-five years caring for children as a nurse and a pediatrician, Carolyn Roy-Bornstein finds herself on the other side of the stretcher when her teenage son and his girlfriend are hit by a drunk driver. Gratitude for her son's survival soon gives way to grief. While initially told Neil's only injury was a broken leg, she soon learns his brain is bleeding. Roy-Bornstein is now not the patient's doctor or nurse, but his mom. The world she so easily navigated in a white coat must now be traversed, understood, and dealt with from the perspective of a parent. There are many dividing lines in this story: the line that divides the family's life into events that occurred before the crash and those that faltered in its wake, and the line that separates gratitude that her son is alive from grief for his loss of memory and changed personality. Roy-Bornstein's years as a "medical insider" give her story authenticity while her newcomer status as the parent of a trauma victim adds poignancy and warmth to this first memoir.
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