Rise and Shine: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Journey from Near Death to Full Recovery (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781595800510)

"When I was thirty-five, my wife and I were both reported dead by the first paramedics to arrive at the scene of a seventy-five-mile-an-hour hit-and-run. My wife Marcy died instantly that day. With brain damage from a massive stroke and my body broken, I wasn't expected to survive either."

So begins Rise and Shine, the dramatic story of Simon Lewis and his remarkable recovery from a horrific car accident. Told through the eyes of someone who has "lived through it" and successfully overcome the hurdles of the health insurance maze, Rise and Shine is a first-person account of unexpected tragedy and life-affirming courage, with lessons both medical and spiritual.

Rise and Shine shows how much patients can achieve, beyond the limited horizons of insurance-based diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation, to attain maximum regeneration and rebuild their lives. An inspiring story about what it means to return to life after a near-death experience, Rise and Shine is, essentially, an exploration of the nature of consciousness itself, and an impassioned tale about survival and recovery.

Author: Simon Lewis
ISBN-10: 1595800514
ISBN-13: 9781595800510
Publisher: Santa Monica Press
Language: English
Published: 05/01/2010
Pages: 360
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.36lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.60w x 1.25d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 08/09/2010