![]() ![]() ![]() As she and her family navigated an increasingly complicated web of doctors and specialists, Greenberg taught herself to fight her own battles–against a medical system ill-equipped to handle patients with chronic pain, and against the emotional pitfalls of a newly restricted life. Greenberg realized that she had been living for years on borrowed time. ![]() Then, one morning, this blissful façade shattered–the pain in her neck returned in the most vicious way. Years later, she seemed to have it all: a loving husband, two wonderful children, a peaceful home, and a richly satisfying job as a tenured poetry professor. When her broken neck healed–or so everyone thought–her recovery was hailed as a medical miracle and she returned to normal life. In the tradition of William Styron’s tour de force Darkness Visible, The Body Broken is a gorgeously told and intensely moving account of one woman’s extraordinary odyssey into a life of chronic pain–and of the unyielding resilience of the human spirit.Īt age nineteen, Lynne Greenberg narrowly survived a devastating car crash. ![]()
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