Life On Cripple Creek: Essays on Living with Multiple Sclerosis

✍ Scribed by Dean Kramer

• Publisher: Demos Health
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 162
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In her first collection of essays, author Dean Kramer shares the victories and failures of day-to-day life with multiple sclerosis. At her home in rural Pennsylvania Kramer faces unexpected dilemmas, including choosing which shoes to wear when the choice can no longer be based on looks — yet you are not ready to dress like the elderly neighbor, and what to do when your scooter disrupts a hornets nest and running away isn’t an option. With beauty and joy, laughter and tears, Kramer lets readers experience life through her eyes.. Many books convey the struggles of living with a life-changing disability. But Life on Cripple Creek goes further to show that with inner strength and a sense of humor the intrinsic land mines one encounters with this disease need not be devastating.

✦ Table of Contents

Table of Contents......Page 5
Foreword......Page 7
Acknowledgments......Page 11
Introduction......Page 13
Summer......Page 17
The Stress Paradox......Page 19
The Pitfalls of Good Health......Page 23
Never Forget to Remember......Page 27
Push Comes to Shove......Page 31
First Interlude: Comtemplation......Page 39
Who Do I Think I Am?......Page 41
Out of My Mind......Page 44
Chicken Little and the Terminator......Page 48
Who's the Dummy?......Page 52
The Dreamer......Page 56
Fall......Page 59
Everyday Heroes......Page 61
The Jacket......Page 64
The Turkey......Page 67
After the Fall......Page 69
Second Interlude: Motion......Page 73
She Flies Through the Air......Page 75
In the Closet......Page 79
If the Shoe Fits......Page 85
Cleanliness is Next to Impossible......Page 89
You Wear What You Eat......Page 93
Winter......Page 97
Demolition Shopping......Page 99
Making a List......Page 103
On Turning Fifty......Page 108
Observation On the Search for Companionship......Page 112
Third Interlude: Community......Page 119
Turn About......Page 121
Doctor, Doctor......Page 125
The Uncertainty Principle......Page 129
Walk This Way......Page 133
Spring......Page 139
Shifting Gears on Shifting Sands......Page 141
Acme Bowling Balls......Page 146
The Abyss......Page 152
The Red Pony......Page 157