Pear shaped
Blain, Adam
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The true story of Adam Blain, a 44-year-old London lawyer and family man who one day, ends up in A&E after a series of headaches and consistent nausea. Expecting to be sent home with a packet of Paracetamol, he’s shocked when harassed doctors are suddenly offering to buy him gourmet coffee. Worse still, the diagnosis of a late-stage brain tumour is made by his oncologist wife. So far, so not funny. Adam, however, is determined not to slide into defeatist misery, and approaches the saga of surgery and chemotherapy with a chirpy, irreverent black humour. What else can he do when every outing risks bits of his brain dripping out of his nose without warning? Wondering constantly what the pear-shaped part of his brain that’s been removed is thinking, and whether it’s having a better time than he is, Adam takes us through the myriad but necessary indignities inflicted on the brain cancer sufferer.
Main title:
Pear shaped / by Adam Blain.
Author:
Blain, Adam, author
Imprint:
[s.l.] : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform , 2015.
Collation:
140 pages
ISBN:
9781511860611
Dewey class:
616.994
Language:
English
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BRN:
3366012
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