The Tincture of Time: A Memoir of (Medical) Uncertainty
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| Rating | : | 4.99 (792 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B06Y49JVZJ |
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| Number of Pages | : | 182 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-02-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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If Jimmy Kimmel's monologue on his son's heart problem touched you, read this book. Just as I was nearing the end of this book, Jimmy Kimmel revealed the problems his son had at birth with a congenital heart defect. While Jimmy was forced to tell his story in a 5 minute TV segment, Elizabeth Silver gives us a whole book to present the story of her child's illness and her perspective. It is a touching story with fascinating story with interesting historical and scientific interludes that add to its appeal. Well worth the time to read.. ""At times, I have to walk out of the room to cry."" according to booklover10. Elizabeth Silver and her husband, Amir, were alarmed when their six-week old daughter, Abby, started vomiting and seizing. They took her to Children's Hospital in Los Angeles, and at first, the tests came back negative. However, a scan eventually revealed that Abby had bleeding in her brain. Silver describes her panic, guilt (although she had done nothing wrong), and fear that her baby's ability to function would be compromised. In addition, she and Amir endured a leng. Thoughtful but wanders A ‘tincture of time’ is what is necessary for many, if not most, ailments to resolve one way or another. You give a patient antibiotics, and wait to for them to act. You cut a person open, and wait for them to knit back together. Or you wait, and the patient dies. Some ailments take longer to resolve than others. When Elizabeth Silver’s six week old daughter Abby starts having seizures, despite hundreds of ultrasounds, MRIs, and blood panels, in the e
The result is a brilliant blend of personal narrative and cultural analysis, at once a poignant snapshot of a parent's struggle and a wise meditation on the reality of uncertainty, in and out of medicine, and the hard-won truth that time is often its only cure.. It's a year of unending tests, doctors' opinions, sleepless nights, and, above all, uncertainty. As Silver explores what it means to cope with uncertainty as a patient and parent, she looks beyond her own story for comfort, probing literature and religion, examining the practice of medicine throughout history, and reporting the experiences of doctors, patients, and fellow caretakers. The Tincture of Time is Silver's gorgeous and haunting chronicle of Abby's first year. When her six-week-old daughter, Abby, was rushed to the neonatal intensive care unit with sudden seizures, and scans revealed a serious brain bleed, her relationship to medicine began to change. Silver felt an unquestioned faith in medicine. The mysterious circumstances of Abby's hospitalizati