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Title: Catastrophe of Coma: A Way Back by Edward Alan Freeman ISBN: 0-911378-93-6 Publisher: Sheridan Medical Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1989 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.50

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: A supportive, constructive, nurturing how-to-deal book
Comment: The author assumes right off that if you are reading this book, you have suffered an enormous tragedy in your life and he sets right out to help you deal with it. He explains medical terminology and hospital politics in a non-threatening and very practical way. He tells you what you CAN do and what you CAN'T do. And he gives you very constructive instructions about how to do the things that you can do. It is a nurturing AND realistic book that makes the process much more concrete and while it can't take the pain away, it does a wonderful job of lifting all the burden from your shoulders.

Rating: 5
Summary: Professional and personal reviews give thumbs up for book
Comment: Professional and personal opinions of this book give the "thumbs up" as a practical reference for rehabilitation.

Mr Neil Brooks, Wellcome Neuroscience Group, University of Glasgow wrote this book has obviously been draughted for families of brain injury.

"It is a clearly written book with some excellent illustrations. It is a book which gives hope," Mr Brooks wrote in his review for the journal Brain Injury, 1989, Vol 3, No 1. "I would recommend this book to any family member of a brain-injured person, as well as those who are interested in the practice of coma stimulation," he concluded.

Dr Keith Andrews, Director of Medical and Research Services, Royal Hospital & Home, London reviewed Dr Freeman's book for the Autumn edition of Clinical Rehabilitation, 1989.

Dr Andrews wrote the book was extremely good and mused many hospitals will soon be under pressure, unable to live up to the proposals for rehabilitation which Dr Freeman addresses in his book.

Dr Clarke, Director of the British Life Insurance Trust for Health Education, London, wrote with praise and a practical proposal for the book in 1988. "It is a really excellent book. We are a registered charity ... and we have been raising money to distribute free of charge Coma Stimulation Kits to hospitals that request them. Dr Clarke proposed the inclusion of Dr Freeman's book in the kits.

Finally, a personal review from Ms Jeanette Moss, Director, The New South Wales Council for Intellectual Disability, Australia. She wrote: "I have spent many hours reading your book and then going back and rereading whole chapters."

Ms Moss further explained her opinion of the book, from her own experiences of brain injury. "The empathy I feel and the memories I will continue to hold close, come from that thread of 'close touching' which flows through every chapter. Not always the physical 'touching'; but the 'touching' from someone who cares and understands; a someone who understands how a family feels, who walks with them through their despair and confusion, through the inadequate crumbs of medical advice, through their frustrations at the coninuing lack of information; how to understand what is happening now, what to do next, what to aim for and look for in the future.

"I so wish your book had been around twenty five years ago when I was a confused and struggling young parent with a son whose intellect was impaired, lacking any of the supports which a parent looks to the medical and rehabilitative services to provide. If that 'close touching' of constructive and informed concern had been around then, what a difference it would have made to one family's future.

"For all families who have a loved one suffering brain injury, your words are a lifeline. For all families with a loved member of the family faced with other disabilities, what you have written can only be encouraging ... your book is a reinforcement of what love and encouragement can achieve."

"Many families continue to struggle with the reluctance or inability of the various professions to provide us with the information we need, given to us in an understandable and deliberate and compassionate way. I hope and trust your book will fall into the hands of every famnily and friend of aa person who is brain injured, and into the wider readership of families of people who are intellectually or physically disabled."