This biography is dedicated to my children whom I love so much and hurt so badly. After my children were born my life was built around these two kids in every way. The joy that they brought to my life was and remains overwhelming. I sit back and wonder how I could have been capable of what I did and my heart aches for them every time I think about it. The book covers over sixty years of my life. There were many traumatic and tragic events throughout my life but I was able to get over the h...

Have you ever wondered what it feels like:to be stuck in a tornado?“[It] is exactly the feel of a freight train approaching—that low, ever-louder howl and the shuddering ground.”to participate in an orgy?“And all the while, the thought that keeps going through your mind (and through the cab ride home, and into breakfast the next day): ‘I’m at an orgy! I’m at an orgy!’”to have a severe stutter?

"Just the ticket for the '90s."SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLEIf you're too young for a nursing home yet too old to be a rock star, if your marriage is as exciting as scraping grass off the lawnmower blades, then this hilarious book by Pulitzer-Prize-winning columnist and author is for you. Put on your protective eyewear and take a probing look inside your increasingly Spam-like body at: The Midlife (Yawn) Marriage; Wise Financial Planning for Irresponsible Scum Such as Yourself; Sex...

This eBook contains the "extras", bonus material, and deleted scenes from David W. Powell's original memoir My Tour in Hell: A Marine's Battle with Combat Trauma. In this new posthumous edition, we get an intimate look at David's life in previously undocumented stages:Growing up in Pasadena, CaliforniaDraft NoticeBoot campFrom Camp Pendleton to Da NangHighlights of his life from 2007 to 2011Join us with a final salute to David W. Pow...

I thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity to share the lighter side of airport and aviation employees. The vast majority of people I encountered at the airport [from all classes and careers], enjoyed humor. Additionally, I found that the average person can recognize the difference between fact and fiction, truth and lies and more importantly, humor versus sarcasm. As I mentioned earlier, humor has been determined to be a stress reducer, and often, a means of increasing morale. Remember, I refer...

"In the Arms of a Stranger" is Dale J Bingham's touching and moving account of his career as a paramedic. From his early years as a medic in Southern California, to his work as a Tulsa, Oklahoma paramedic, he gives an inside look at the rewards, the trials, and the heartaches that emergency workers face everyday. In between, he writes of his own struggles with a difficult career and of tragically losing his own mother to the very part of life he worked so hard to conquer. "In ...

M*A*S*H meets Scrubs in a sharply observant, darkly funny, and totally unique debut memoir from physical therapist Adele Levine.In her six years at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Adele Levine rehabilitated soldiers admitted in worse and worse shape. As body armor and advanced trauma care helped save the lives—if not the limbs—of American soldiers fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq, Walter Reed quickly became the world leader in amputee rehabilitat...

A former City of Milwaukee firefighter, the author writes his memoir with candor, depth, spice and emotional insight. He lays out the tumultuous events that led him as a youth into the profession, and the wealth of eye-opening experiences along the way. He plumbs the character of the firefighters and paramedics who answer the call for rescue--but also the character of those who make the call, the rescuer and the rescued.The author keeps the reader close with vivid details of fighti...

This stirring autobiography is about a young man who was drafted in the 1960's and sent to Vietnam. It follows his simple beginnings, in Maine, to Vietnam where the rest of his life was changed due to PTSD. The impact PTSD has made on his Family over 40 years and continues even to this day. This book is heart breaking and an awakening to what wars can do to our men and women in the service of our country. This book will encourage young Americans coming home from war to seek help for PTSD i...

ANDREW WAS 88 AND LIVING ON BORROWED TIME.I WAS AN OUT OF WORK CHEF WILLING TO TRY ANYTHING ONCE, BUT A CAREGIVER? SOMEHOW BEING A MAID, NURSE AND GERIATRIC BABYSITTER WASN'T MY IDEA OF RESPECTABLE. FOR THE NEXT YEAR I WOULD LEARN ABOUT CARING FOR SOMEONE WHO COULDN'T, AN ALZHEIMERS/ PARKINSON VICTIM. I WOULD LEARN TO RESPECT ANDREW WHO WAS LOOSING EVERYTHING THAT MADE HIM NORMAL IN SOCIETY, HIS DIGNITY AS I WIPED HIS BUTT, HIS PRIDE AS I DRIED HIS BACK FROM SHOWERING,...

My name is Phil Dorman and I would like to share some knowledge with you. I have Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Dissociative Disorders (DD). These disorders caused through sadistic child abuse, childhood trauma, normal stress, trauma due to combat actions, and overworking for thirty years, have plagued me for over nine years.I'm not a doctor or in the medical professional, you might say I'm writing from on the inside. Without a formal degree in pain, trauma, stress, and ...

On January 3, 1987, teenager Vaughn Ripley receives what seems to be a death sentence. A lifelong hemophiliac, he has been infused with tainted blood and is found to be HIV+. In this memoir, Ripley not only recounts his life living with severe physical ailments, but also details his fight to live. Survivor follows him as he receives his fateful news and examines how this single piece of information pushes the innocent boy headlong into a hard life of drugs and alcohol. After sever...