There I Am: The Journey from Hopelessness to Healing―A

There I Am: The Journey from Hopelessness to Healing―A Memoir

Brain on Fire meets Carry On, Warrior, There I Am is an arresting inspirational memoir about one womanâ€™s journey from chronic pain and hopelessness to finding joy, redemption, and healing.

At seventeen years old, Ruthie Lindsey is hit by an ambulance near her home in rural Louisiana. Sheâ€™s given a five percent chance of survival and one percent chance of walking again. One month later after a spinal fusion surgery, Ruthie defies the odds, leaving the hospital on her own two feet.

Just a few years later, newly married and living in Nashville, Ruthie begins to experience debilitating pain. Her case confounds doctors and after numerous rounds of testing, imaging, and treatment, they prescribe narcotic painkillersâ€”lots of them. Ruthie has become bedridden, dependent on painkillers, and hopeless, when an X-ray reveals that the wire used to fuse her spine is piercing her brain stem. Without another staggeringly expensive experimental surgery, she could well become paralyzed, but in many ways, she already is.

Ruthie goes into the hospital in chronic pain, dependent on prescription painkillers, and leaves that way. She can still walk, but has no idea where sheâ€™s going. As her life unravels, Ruthie returns home to Louisiana and sets out on a journey to learn joy again. She trades fentanyl for sunsets and morphine for wildflowers, weaning herself off of the drugs and beginning the process of healingâ€”of coming home to her body.

Raw and redemptive, There I Am is not just about the magic of optimism, but the work of it. Ruthieâ€™s extraordinary memoir urges us to unlearn the stories of brokenness that we tell ourselves and embrace the wholeness, joy, and healing that lives inside all of us.
Country USA
Brand Gallery Books
Manufacturer Gallery Books
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 198210791X-localization
ReleaseDate 2020-04-21
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781982107918

Country	USA
Brand	Gallery Books
Manufacturer	Gallery Books
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	198210791X-localization
ReleaseDate	2020-04-21
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781982107918

There I Am: The Journey from Hopelessness to Healing―A Memoir

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