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" Reverberations of a stroke : "
Karl Gustafson.
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BL
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861019
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Gustafson, Karl E.
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Reverberations of a stroke : : a memoir /\ Karl Gustafson.
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Cham, Switzerland :: Springer Nature,, [2019]
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, ©2019
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1 online resource
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3030128628
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: 9783030128623
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303012861X
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9783030128616
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Includes bibliographical references.
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| Contents
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Intro; Foreword by Simo Puntanen: Eight Months Before a Second Life ... ; Foreword by Jillian Lloyd: Going to See Karl; Acknowledgements; Contents; 1 The End; 2 Twilight and Dawn; 3 Going Home; 4 The Brain; 5 Gamma Knife; 6 Perchance to Dream; 7 Endless Fatigue; 8 One-Year Anniversary; 9 New Reality; 10 An Early Rise; 11 A Trip to the High Country; 12 Time and Space; 13 Neanderthal Days; Logic and Reason; Experience and Intuition; Imagination and Hibernation; Sun and Soul; 14 Gratitude; He Who Kept Writing Away; She Who Cared About Many; To Whom Do We Give Thanks?; 15 Two-Year Anniversary
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In the early morning hours of Feb. 1, 2016, Karl Gustafson became instinctively aware that something catastrophic was happening inside him. A severe headache that had persisted for days had taken a sudden turn for the worse, and a clear inner voice ordered him to obtain immediate help. With determined effort, he tapped out the digits "9-1-1" on his phone-bringing an ambulance to his door quickly and saving his life. Emergency Room doctors would soon learn that Professor Gustafson, a renowned American mathematician, had suffered a deep brain hemorrhage, and that the situation was dire. By the time his condition was diagnosed, blood had pooled into all four ventricles of Gustafson's brain and he was comatose. Against all odds and surprising everyone, the author emerged from a near-death state to go on to what he calls his "Second Life". This is the story of his miraculous journey of recovery, an inspirational tale of grit and determination, in his own words.
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Gustafson, Karl E.
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Computer scientists-- United States, Biography.
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Mathematicians-- United States, Biography.
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BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Science Technology.
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Computer scientists.
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Mathematicians.
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MATHEMATICS-- Essays.
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MATHEMATICS-- Pre-Calculus.
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MATHEMATICS-- Reference.
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United States.
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510.92
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QA29.G87
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