Overview

LIGHTNING STRIKES TWICE is a detailed recounting of the experiences of an author who had two severe strokes and underwent two long periods of recovery and rehabilitation over a period of twenty years. The story is told with a lightness of touch and a generous helping of humour. The World itself has taken some hard knocks over the same period and Tom East does not try to ignore these. Nor does he forget the important part played by others in his recovery. To quote directly from what he writes: 'The story is by no means all dark. If I have learned anything since the Millennium, it is how ready to be helpful, concerned, and considerate in a non-patronising way almost everyone has been. I have been given an object lesson in the finest qualities of human nature' and 'The formal dedication to my family at the front of this book is richly deserved. No-one has helped me more than they. Yet I must also thank friends, other relatives, former colleagues, medical and other professionals of all kinds, acquaintances and even a large number of complete strangers, some of whose names I never found out, for the genuine kindness they have shown to me.' If you have yourself survived any kind of stroke, someone close to you has, or you are reading for more than purely scientific reasons, this book will be of interest to you.

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Author:   Tom East
Publisher:   Benybont Books
Imprint:   Benybont Books
ISBN:  

9781916297333

ISBN 10:   1916297331
Pages:   162
Publication Date:   31 August 2020
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Strokes (introduction) Episode One: Life Changes at the Millennium [1] The Life Before [2] And Then It Went Dark [3] Inpatient The Long Road Back [4] Out of Hospital [5] Around Carreg Cennan [6] Two Games of Cricket [7] Well-Wishers [8] The Eyes Have It [9] Uninsured Spain [10] Goodbye to All That Work [11] New York, New York [12] Lessons on the Rhine [13] On the Road [14] Walking and Talking Episode Two: Not Again! [15] Out of Focus [16] Emergency Admission [17] My Darkest Night [18] The Impatient Patient The Longer Road Back [19] A Deep and Dark December [20] Physiotherapy [21] Bonjour to a White Christmas [22] Weighty Matters [23] Minor Matters [24] Speech Therapy [25] Investigations [26] Learning Welsh [27] Dreamscapes [28] Writing [29] Quo Vadis? APPENDICES [1] Diary of Events [2] Notes and Drawings, 9th April, 2000 [3] Notes, 10th April, 2000 [4] Script for Telephone Call, 11th Feb, 2011 [5] Letter to a Well-Wisher, August, 2000 [6] Speech Therapy, Part One [POEM] [7] Speech Therapy, Part Two [POEM] [8] The Speech Cards [9] Activities During BP Monitoring 159

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The next publication from Tom East is the ELDRITCH novel, THE KA OF STEPHEN CHARLES. This will be available on 22nd May, 2022. Twelve books are currently available in paperback from TOM EAST or as eBooks. Apart from the latest, these include the controversial novel THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO St JUDAS and the unsparing non-fiction of LIGHTNING STRIKES TWICE, about recovery from two brain haemorrhages, Earlier Tom was the writer of many works of fiction, commercial features, essays, reviews, 'other prose' and poetry. He was also the author of six (print) books. He was born in London, although of Welsh family and has lived in Wales for many years. Still available as paperback and ebook are THE EVE OF ST ELIGIUS, THE GREENLAND PARTY, TOMMY'S WAR: July 1914, SCENES FROM SEASONS, THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT VERSE BRIGADE, THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST JUDAS, LYRICS, POLEMICS AND POETICS, WISH MAN'S WOOD, A FIFTIES' CHILDHOOD, LIGHTNING STRIKES TWICE, WHY WRITE HAIKU? and THE LOWELL LETTERS

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