{"product_id":"i-hear-u-michael-paul-patrick-9798244505689","title":"I Hear U: A Memoir of Recovery and Reckoning","description":"\u003cp\u003eSurviving the ICU is not the end of the story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn I Hear U, Michael Paul Patrick continues his unflinching memoir of life after catastrophic illness, picking up where survival left off-not in triumph, but in aftermath. If I See U was about being watched, restrained, and kept alive, I Hear U is about what happens when the world resumes and no one is listening.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter near-death and prolonged critical illness, Patrick returns to his life as a trial attorney, husband, and father, only to discover that survival has quietly dismantled everything he once relied on-his body, his confidence, his career, and his sense of self. Lingering trauma, Post-Intensive Care Syndrome (PICS), and institutional disbelief follow him far beyond the hospital walls, into courtrooms, conference rooms, insurance examinations, and his own home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not a recovery story in the conventional sense.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI Hear U is a reckoning-with systems that demand proof of suffering long after survival, with a profession built on endurance he can no longer sustain, with a marriage reshaped by shared trauma, and with the isolating realization that the most lasting damage of critical illness is often invisible.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough deeply intimate scenes with his wife and children, harrowing encounters with insurers and medical gatekeepers, and the quiet erosion of an identity forged over a lifetime, Patrick traces the slow loss of the person he used to be. Along the way, he finds something unexpected: community. Survivor support groups, fellow patients, caregivers, and advocates who speak a language he didn't know existed-one that finally names what he and his family have been living with since discharge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI Hear U gives voice to the millions of ICU survivors and loved ones navigating life after survival, often without guidance, recognition, or resources. It is a memoir about listening-to a changed body, to fractured relationships, to others walking the same unseen path-and about learning that being heard can be its own form of survival.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is Book II of The Life After Trilogy, a three-part memoir series exploring what comes after near-death: survival, witness, and ultimately, acceptance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers of literary memoir, medical narratives, and anyone who has lived through trauma that did not end when the crisis passed, I Hear U offers recognition, honesty, and the radical permission to be changed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Paul Patrick\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798244505689\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/24\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 234\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.49d","brand":"Michael Paul Patrick","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48154335281407,"sku":"9798244505689","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_caa92a68-bee4-496a-bd14-d258f5fedede.jpg?v=1770789467","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/i-hear-u-michael-paul-patrick-9798244505689","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}