{"product_id":"crash-carolyn-roy-bornstein-9780762780457","title":"Crash: A Mother, a Son, and the Journey from Grief to Gratitude","description":"\u003cp\u003eAfter 25 years of caring for children, first as a nurse, then as a pediatrician, Carolyn Roy-Bornstein finds herself on the other side of the stretcher when her 17-year-old son Neil is hit by a teenage drunk driver while walking his girlfriend Trista home after a study date. Trista did not survive her injuries. Neil carries his with him to this day. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Gratitude for her son's survival ultimately gives way to grief. While initially told Neil's only injury was a broken leg, Roy-Bornstein quickly finds herself riding in the front seat of an ambulance transporting her son to the ICU at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston; his brain is bleeding. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Roy-Bornstein is now not the patient's doctor or nurse but his mom. The world she so easily navigates in a white uniform or a white coat now must be traversed, understood, and dealt with from the perspective of a parent. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e There are many dividing lines in this story. The line that divides this family's life in two: the events that occurred before the crash and those that came tumbling and faltering in its wake. The line that separates grief from gratitude: gratitude that her son is alive and as whole as he is; grief for his loss of memory and changed personality and for having his whole world shattered in an instant. The line that separates the world Roy-Bornstein knew so well as a doctor from the new one she must now navigate as the parent of a trauma victim. \u003cbr\u003e In these pages she explores all of these boundaries: between then and now, grief and gratitude, before and after, us and them. Her many years as a \"medical insider\" bring her story authenticity and detail, while her newcomer status as the parent of a trauma victim add poignancy and warmth in this first memoir. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Carolyn Roy-Bornstein\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0762780452\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780762780457\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Skirt!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/18\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.73lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.68h x 5.77w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/28\/2012 pg. 82\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2012 pg. 22","brand":"Carolyn Roy-Bornstein","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46526205493503,"sku":"9780762780457","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e898be36-0106-4c7d-b315-ebef754b33d7.jpg?v=1737555496","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/crash-carolyn-roy-bornstein-9780762780457","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}