Julia Fox Garrison refused to listen to the professionals she called Dr.
Don\'t Leave Me This Way is the funny, inspiring, profoundly moving true story of a woman\'s fight for her life and dignity--and her determined quest to awaken an entrenched, unfeeling medical community to the fact that there\'s always a human being inside every patient..
But after many, many months of hospitalization and rehab--with the help of family, friends, and her own indomitable spirit--Julia not only got into a wheelchair, but she got Back out.
Neuro, who promised her he would "treat your mind as well as your body." Julia figured if she could somehow manage to get herself into a wheelchair, at least she\'d always find parking.
Instead she heeded the advice of kind, gifted Dr.
Panic, who--after she suffered a massive, debilitating stroke at age thirty-seven--told her she\'d probably die, or to Nurse Doom, who ignored her emergency call button.
Jerk and Dr.
Julia Fox Garrison refused to listen to the professionals she called Dr