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Leaving La-La Land: Escape to Reality (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781038342058)
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xRob is working on renovating his condo when his life is turned upside down. One fateful day, his contractor hears him collapse from the other room. When Rob awakens in the hospital, little does he know, his life-and brain-have changed forever . . . .
Leaving La-La Land is the astounding memoir of a man afflicted by a rare brain condition known as encephalopathy. Over the course of his three-month hospital stay, doctors speculate all kinds of hypotheses for what Rob might be dealing with, which shows itself through both psychological and physical symptoms, putting him through a barrage of tests. Meanwhile Rob, who has lost his sense of who or where or when he is, and his abilities to accomplish even the most basic bodily functions, finds himself afloat on a sea of encephalopathic dreams that try desperately to make sense of his new reality.
Through these remembered dreams, in which he believes himself to be part of a secretive muay thai tournament or the head of a family and husband to a resentful wife in Japan, Rob's hospital experience is half-revealed to him, while medical staff's scrupulous note-taking helps fill in the blanks.
Against all expectations, Rob will eventually find himself able to partially recover from his encephalopathy, regaining a life of relative independence, though he will never be the same. Imaginatively told, at times harrowing, and always profoundly illuminating, Leaving La-La Land is a story of survival and perseverance in the face of incredible odds.
Author: Robert K. Bosscha
ISBN-10: 1038342058
ISBN-13: 9781038342058
Publisher: FriesenPress
Language: English
Published: 07/11/2025
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.69d
Leaving La-La Land is the astounding memoir of a man afflicted by a rare brain condition known as encephalopathy. Over the course of his three-month hospital stay, doctors speculate all kinds of hypotheses for what Rob might be dealing with, which shows itself through both psychological and physical symptoms, putting him through a barrage of tests. Meanwhile Rob, who has lost his sense of who or where or when he is, and his abilities to accomplish even the most basic bodily functions, finds himself afloat on a sea of encephalopathic dreams that try desperately to make sense of his new reality.
Through these remembered dreams, in which he believes himself to be part of a secretive muay thai tournament or the head of a family and husband to a resentful wife in Japan, Rob's hospital experience is half-revealed to him, while medical staff's scrupulous note-taking helps fill in the blanks.
Against all expectations, Rob will eventually find himself able to partially recover from his encephalopathy, regaining a life of relative independence, though he will never be the same. Imaginatively told, at times harrowing, and always profoundly illuminating, Leaving La-La Land is a story of survival and perseverance in the face of incredible odds.
Author: Robert K. Bosscha
ISBN-10: 1038342058
ISBN-13: 9781038342058
Publisher: FriesenPress
Language: English
Published: 07/11/2025
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.69d
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