Ruth Maree Cotton

Broschiertes Buch

A fragile hold

Living with multiple sclerosis and other uncertainties

Beschreibung

When Ruth Cotton walked out of her neurologist's office in 1997 with a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis, her life changed irrevocably. At the peak of her career and with three children still at home, all she could think of were the uncertainties - especially whether she'd become wheelchair-bound. But Ruth continued her full, active life and it wasn't until her retirement that multiple sclerosis exacted its greatest toll - slowly taking her balance and mobility. In 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic confined Ruth indoors, news came that her husband's cancer - melanoma, diagnosed years before - was accelerating. Overwhelmed by a sense of life's fragility, Ruth turned to writing to make sense of it all. As she gives close attention to her immediate environment, a more mindful way of being and thinking unfolds. A Fragile Hold reveals with warmth and unflinching honesty the daily, intimate scenes of a life with multiple sclerosis.

Autor

Ruth Cotton is a writer and blogger who lives in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.Her latest book, A Fragile Hold: Living with Multiple Sclerosis and other Uncertainties, is a memoir which tells how Ruth's progressive disability and her husband's illness led her to a new, more mindful way of living. She was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1997, at a time in her life when she needed all her capacities to care for her children and achieve her life goals.It was not until Ruth's retirement that that multiple sclerosis exacted its greatest toll, slowly taking her balance and mobility. She continued blogging about the local history of her suburb, with two popular books emerging from her work: Hidden Hamilton: Uncovering stories of Hamilton, NSW and More Hidden Hamilton: Further stories of people, place and community. As Ruth's challenges mounted, she needed all the insights she'd gained when writing her first book, Reinventing Success: Find happiness, satisfaction and balance by managing change in your life. It explores how people cope when their lives change unexpectedly, forging new ways of thinking about what success means to them.Ruth has also drawn on her rural childhood, growing up on a sheep and cattle property in the north-west of New South Wales. There, she learned independence, resilience and how to ride a horse from a young age. On Wahroonga: An early settler family at Rocky Creek, NSW chronicles the story of her family which began with her grandfather, who risked everything to lead his young family into an unknown, risky future establishing a farming and grazing enterprise from untamed land.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lightleaf Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 127mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 396g
• ISBN-13: 9780648128618
• ISBN-10: 064812861X
• Artikelnr.: 67404960