Stroke: a 5% chance of survival

✍ Scribed by Brown, Ricky Monahan

• Book ID: 100555633
• Publisher: Sandstone Press Ltd
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 145 KB
• Category: Fiction
• City: New York (N.Y.), New York (State)--New York.
• ISBN: 1912240459

✦ Synopsis

The day after losing his job in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, Ricky suffers a catastrophic haemorrhagic stroke. Fortunately, his girlfriend Beth is nearby. A few minutes later, the unconscious Ricky is wheeled into Brooklyn's Methodist Hospital with a 5% chance of survival, and worse odds of any type of good outcome. Beth begins an eight-week vigil, grabbing an occasional nap on a waiting room floor. Then Hurricane Sandy does to New York what the haemorrhage did to Ricky's brain. Amid the rubble of a battered city, brain injury, and lost jobs, Beth and Ricky start planning for a future together. After all, this is a love story.

✦ Subjects

New York (State) -- New York