01720cam a2200337 4500 646538953 TxAuBib 20230209120000.0 190630s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781982107918 hardcover 198210791X hardcover (OCoLC)1105949894 TxAuBib Lindsey, Ruthie, 1979- There I am : The Journey From Hopelessness To Healing / Ruthie Lindsey. First Gallery books hardcover edition. New York : Gallery Books, 2020. viii, 278 pages : Hardcover ; 22 cm. "A memoir."--Jacket. At seventeen years old, Lindsey is hit by an ambulance near her home in rural Louisiana. Given a five percent chance of survival and one percent chance of walking again, she defied the odds and left the hospital on her own two feet a month later after a spinal fusion surgery. But a few years later Lindsey began to experience debilitating pain. She became bedridden, dependent on narcotic painkillers, and hopeless. An X-ray revealed the wire used to fuse her spine piercing her brain stem. Here Lindsey shows how true optimism helped her remake her life, starting the process of healing-- of coming home to her body. -- adapted from jacket. 20230209. Lindsey, Ruthie, 1979- Chronic pain Patients United States Biography. Chronic pain. Pain Treatment. Positive psychology. OPTIMISM. SELF-ACTUALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY.) CONDUCT OF LIFE. Health.