Counting Bones: Anatomy of Love Lost and Found - Softcover

Penno, Ellen Anderson

 
9781774390924: Counting Bones: Anatomy of Love Lost and Found
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1774390922 ISBN 13: 9781774390924
Verlag: NeWest Press, 2024

Inhaltsangabe

When she was twenty-four years old, Ellen Anderson Penno lost her partner in a climbing accident while they were ascending Mount Baker in Washington’s Cascade Range. The avalanche hid his body in a crevasse just weeks before Anderson Penno was slated to begin medical school, and she soon found herself torn between deferring her studies for a year, or starting right away with a full course load.


Rather than succumbing to grief and risk never beginning her medical education at all, she plunged deep into her studies, surrounded by death on all sides, struggling to maintain her way through her turbulent emotions and a rigorous med school schedule.


In this stirring and often mordantly funny new memoir, Ellen Anderson Penno structures a story of mourning, loss, despair and love through the lens of the classic medical text Gray’s Anatomy, showing readers what becomes of those who must rebuild their lives after tragedy strikes.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Ellen Anderson Penno is a writer and full-time medical doctor, earning an MD and MS from the University of Minnesota, with rotating surgical internship at Hennepin County Hospital, Minneapolis, and ophthalmology residency at the Mayo Clinic. She has earned a Graduate Certificate in Creative Writing from Humber College and completed her Graduate Certificate in Narrative Medicine from Columbia University. She immigrated to Calgary, Alberta in 1997 where she continues to live with her adult daughters and dog pal Ed.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS




PROLOGUE




PART I: THE SKELETON



the bones of the story


I: 1. The Ribs: the rib speaks of love and healing


I: 2. The Hand: thankful for touch and strength


I: 3. The Foot: step, rest, step, rest, repeat, repeat, repeat




PART II: THE BLOOD



a little blood goes a long way


II: 1. The Heart: breaking, bleeding, beating


II: 2. Surface Marking: evidence of buried truth


II: 3. The Cavity: falling through nothing




PART III: EMBRYOLOGY



origins of a finished product


III: 1. Rudiments: starting from scratch


III: 2. Chronological Tables: strict schedules wait for no one


III: 3. Maturation: "the child is the father of the man" - Wordsworth




PART IV: MUSCLES AND FASCIE



heavy lifting


IV: 1. Dissection: unburied truth


IV: 2. Deep Fascia: but for fascia we would crumble to bits


IV: 3. Actions: you can run (and run) but cannot hide




PART V: THE NERVOUS SYSTEM



flight, flee, freeze, or frenzy


V: 1. The Hemispheres: which is smarter, head or heart?


V: 2. Cerebellum: balancing is easy until it's not


V: 3. The Sympathetic Nerve: put on your own oxygen mask before helping others




PART VI: ORGANS OF VOICE AND RESPIRATION



you cannot speak if you do not breathe


VI: 1. The Larynx: a finite number of words to speak?


VI: 2. False Vocal Cords: things are not always what they seem


VI: 3. True Vocal Cords: when you find truth, you find strength




PART VII: ORGANS OF SPECIAL SENSE



the eyes of the soul give the clearest vision


VII: 1. True Skin: it's what's underneath that counts


VII: 2. The Labyrinth: equilibrium is a superpower


VII: 3 The Eyes: the problem of hindsight




EPILOGUE

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Verlag
NeWest Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2024
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1774390922
ISBN 13 
9781774390924
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
265
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