Hi There, Thank you for the recommendation. I have another for you that my wife recommended, it appears to be a similar story, different illness. Both books are available from BARD. They may be available from Bookshare, but I downloaded from BARD, as I much prefer a narrated book over one read with synthesized speech. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, a best seller. The diving bell and the butterfly DB 46844
Bauby, Jean-Dominique. Reading time: 2 hours, 4 minutes. Read by Bruce Huntey. Biography Disability Bestsellers A series of reminiscences by a paralyzed survivor of a massive stroke. A victim of "locked-in syndrome," he feels as if his body were inside a diving bell, while his mind can still "soar like a butterfly." He poignantly recalls a time when he took good health for granted, and he describes how hard it is to communicate when he can only blink his left eye. Bestseller. On Aug 21, 2013, at 7:37 PM, Eugenia Firth <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello guys > I want to tell you guys about this truly amazing book because, in addition to > what she talks about in the book, the book is absolutely amazing because the > author first started writing it on the iPad and then switched to the iPhone. > A journalist became ill with AL S, a truly horrific disabling disease. She > could no longer right at all using any other method, so she started using her > iPad and then used the iPhone to write most of it using the on screen > keyboard with one thumb. She could only use one thumb, and the book is 363 > pages. I can't imagine doing that, and that takes real persistence. The name > of the book is until I say goodbye: my year of living with Joy by Susan > Spencer Wendall. I just thought I would like to pass this information along > since I found it so unbelievable that she could write that many pages with > one thumb. Her disease prevented her from using the dictation option like I > am right now. > Regards, > Gigi > > Sent from my iPhone > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
