By Brian Shaughnessy
Review & Description
What if someone walked into surgery and awoke quadriplegic -- never having been warned of this risk? What if someone not only survived but also endured the horrors of this disability with hope and humor? What if that someone traveled, worked, entertained, returned to school, earned a masters degree, a law degree and got married? What if someone wrote a funny and tearful book about it? Someone did. That book is The Squeaky Wheel -- an Unauthorized Autobiography and is the first book to honestly and humorously deal with acquiring a major disability and the profound loss and injustices that accompany paralysis. This book focuses on the author's accomplishments without straining to pat him on the back. This memoir does not back away from the details of degradation, urine, ignorance and indifference from the unknowing.What if someone walked into surgery and awoke quadriplegic -- never having been warned of this risk? What if someone not only survived but also endured the horrors of this disability with hope and humor? What if that someone traveled, worked, entertained, returned to school, earned a masters degree, a law degree and got married? What if someone wrote a funny and tearful book about it? Someone did. That book is The Squeaky Wheel -- an Unauthorized Autobiography and is the first book to honestly and humorously deal with acquiring a major disability and the profound loss and injustices that accompany paralysis. This book focuses on the author's accomplishments without straining to pat him on the back. This memoir does not back away from the details of degradation, urine, ignorance and indifference from the unknowing. Read more
