Where is the Mango Princess? A Journey Back from Brain Injury by Cathy Crimmins
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Book Reviews of Where is the Mango Princess? A Journey Back from Brain Injury
Book Review: Laughter, Tears, and Honesty
Summary: 5 Stars
Cathy Crimmins talks of the reality of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and shares the emotions as they are. An easy read with so much insight into the life of the victim and the victim's family from the moment of trauma onward. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll have a better understanding, and then you will start the process all over again. This is an absolute "must read" for anyone whose life has been touched by TBI. I praise her poignant honesty in telling the story of her husband's battle "back" after the boating accident that caused his TBI as well as the honesty of the family's long journey learning not just what, but how they dealt with this life-changing accident on a day-to-day basis.
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Book Review: Well-written, Powerful and Excellent!
Summary: 5 Stars
I read this book in four nights, right before bed. I tore through it like no other memoir before. This book, for me, was like reading my own parents' memoir. My father suffered a TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury) when I was four/five years old. Of course, so much of what was available to the author's husband was simply not around 45 years ago. I understand so much more why my father acted the way he did for the remaining 16 years of his life. This book is powerful. It is honest, raw, intense, lighthearted at times, funny, sad, well written and easy to read (though the subject matter is quite painful at times)... an all around excellent book. I am so glad that I read it, and plan to keep this one.Book Review: harrowing and real
Summary: 5 Stars
Having read several brain injury survivor memoirs, I was initially reluctant to read one written by a family member of a survivor - how could they possibly understand the experience? But Cathy Crimmins shows us 'the other side' - how the survivor can challenge everyone's tolerance with their suddenly bizarre, unsavoury, often hostile, and sadly unintended new behaviour and limitations. She doesn't sanitise the ordeal, but rather just tells it as she endured it. I'd love to read a companion book by her husband Alan (the brain injury survivor she writes about), for a look at how different the worlds of survivor and carer can be. And how about a sequel Cathy?Book Review: jdubuc
Summary: 5 Stars
Recently my mother suffered a severe brain anuerism and stroke. She was unconscious for over a week and spent 27 days in the SCU. She was very young and this experience was very tramatic. Crimmins does a tremendous job to explain the oddities of TBI and name them without ever making you feel like you are reading a medical novel. By reading this story, I have been able to cope with confabulation and many other behaviours that TBI patients exhibit, that would have been shocking before reading this book. It is a truely amazing story as all recoveries from TBI are. I would hightly recommend this book to anyone dealing with any form of TBI.Book Review: eye opening, touching & too funny
Summary: 5 Stars
I picked up this book because a friend's daughter is a TBI survivor & I was curious. Now it's a book I'll recommend to all my friends because of everything else it touches on - specifically not judging others because you have no idea what's going on with them or what they're dealing with. It's an easy read with lots of heart. I'm happy that Cathy's husband has done so well. And I really glad she decided to write about her experience. You don't have to have a close connection to TBI to enjoy this book. I know that I am more willing to cut someone some slack who says or does something inappropriate. "There, but for the grace of God, go I."