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Searching for the Open Door:
A Woman's Struggle for Survival After a Traumatic Brain Injury
(A true Traumatic Brain Injury rehabilitation story)

Searching for the Open Door: A Woman's Struggle for Survival after a Traumatic Brain Injury is an inspirational journey from medical malpractice to financial rehabilitation, physical rehabilitation and spiritual rehabilitation.  The reader quickly learns that the author's traumatic brain injury resulted from medical malpractice and that her medical malpractice trial was instrumental in her financial rehabilitation.  However, financial rehabilitation did not come first as it was predicated on the author's physical and spiritual rehabilitation. 

 

            Searching for the Open Door: A Woman's Struggle for Survival After a Traumatic Brain Injury is primarily about the author's physical rehabilitation and spiritual rehabilitation. Throughout this inspirational book, the reader is taken on a spiritual journey, learning how inner strength and the will to survive can overcome the most dire of medical conditions, and with the help of extensive, physical rehabilitation, defy doctors' and medical experts' predictions. How this ordeal culminates in the author's spiritual rehabilitation is a prevailing theme throughout the book. It is through the discovery of God's role in shaping her life that she is able to accept the loss of previous dreams and plans. Her spiritual rehabilitation encompasses a process of learning to find a new sense of purpose for living, which although unexpected and, in a sense, undesired, nevertheless becomes something greater than what could ever have been imagined.

            Searching for the Open Door: A Woman's Struggle for Survival After a Traumatic Brain Injury demonstrates how the support and compassion of family and friends is at the core of successful physical rehabilitation. The support of friends combined with her parents’ relentless determination to ensure their daughter got the physical rehabilitation she needed ultimately proved instrumental in the author's complete rehabilitation. 

 

            Rabbi Harold Kushner in his book of similar title wrote, "bad things happen to good people all the time." This story is compelling not just because of the extent of the traumatic brain injury that the author sustained and the extent of recovery she achieved through physical rehabilitation.  It is compelling because of the spiritual rehabilitation the author achieved, which ultimately enabled her to deal with both her physical limitations and the loss of her dreams and goals as a result of her traumatic brain injury. It is a story that fosters hope and a reason to motivate toward something potentially new, different and exciting.