I Had Brain Surgery, What's Your Excuse?: An Illustrated Memoir

Author: Suzy Becker
List Price: $19.95
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ISBN: 0761124780
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company (January, 2004)
Sales Rank: 634
Average Customer Rating: 5 out of 5

Customer Reviews

Rating: 5 out of 5
The first is always the scariest...
When I was first browsing this book in the shop, I wondered how she could have written this whole book on just one surgery. I myself am a frequent neurosurgery patient, and have had 11 surgeries in the past 14 months. As I started to read, however, I recalled how the first of my surgeries was the scariest because it was all new to me.

Suzy Becker does a fantastic job of explaining her story with wit that makes me find humour in my own situation. It is important to keep a good perspective about something so crazy, and Suzy obviously does a great job in doing that.

Rating: 5 out of 5
Couldn't put it down
The story of Ms. Becker's brain surgery - from first symptoms through recovery, and so much in between - pulled me right in with her 'fly on the wall' perspective. And that she could find humor while living through this ordeal is simply amazing. This book is so well written, and the cartoons, journal entries, and other illustrations help bring the story to life in a truly unique way. I was sad to see that I only had a few pages to go at the end -- I just didn't want this book, and this story, to end.

Rating: 5 out of 5
Laughed out loud
An inspiring story, told with humor and panache. No one is spared the brunt of the author's jokes; her wit is directed at doctors, friends, family, and, perhaps most of all, herself. And ultimately, no one is left outside the author's warm embrace.

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