Blindsided: Lifting a Life Above Illness: A Reluctant Memoir, (Paperback)

from hemlokgang

This was a moving and depressing account of one man's life with Multiple Sclerosis, and how it has challenged him to grow as a person, and the ways the illness has impacted his family. Cohen is eloquent, and tells the tale of his life. He loves life and has been creative and determined in keeping...

from thom001

Even a cursory examination of online reviews of Richard Cohen's Blindsided: Lifting a Life Above Illness reveals a widespread conception that the author has a "bad attitude," that he is "angry" and "negative" about the medical challenges posed by his multiple sclerosis and his bouts with colon ca...

from TimBazzett

A very moving memoir of a man who has lived with MS since the age of 25. Cohen is 60 now and still "coping" - a term and a life strategy which gets much ink here. In a discussion of this book with a friend who had already read it, he characterized it as a kind of literate good-news-bad-news-joke....

from TimBazzett

A very moving memoir of a man who has lived with MS since the age of 25. Cohen is 60 now and still "coping" - a term and a life strategy which gets much ink here. In a discussion of this book with a friend who had already read it, he characterized it as a kind of literate good-news-bad-news-joke....

from bobbieharv

When will I learn not to read books by journalists, even ones who get MS and then colon cancer? Typical sentence: "Our relationship was exciting, our mutual attraction warming as rapidly as the dunes leading down to the sea in the August sun."