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Look Up for Yes
Author: Julia Tavalaro, Richard Tayson
More than thirty years ago, Julia Tavalaro woke up from a coma to find herself almost completely paralyzed by two strokes that had also left her unable to speak. Suddenly, just thirty-two years old, she was a prisoner in her own body and a victim of the ignorant and cruel treatment of hospital workers who neither noticed nor cared that the "vege...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781568361710
ISBN-10: 1568361718
Publication Date: 4/1997
Pages: 240
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Publisher: Kodansha America
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
Members Wishing: 0
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jazzysmom avatar reviewed Look Up for Yes on + 907 more book reviews
This book is so touching, I honestly could not go to sleep a couple nights thinking about Julia after I finished the book. The story is so unbelieveable. If I had been her i'd of probably never made it in the places she was. God was with her every day. She was treated so badly and her family never told her what had happened to her. She could hear everything everyone said for years and years and no one bothered to ask her if she could hear, until many years later when a wonderful O.T. tec came to help her. Her family mostly left her and her husband acted like he didn't know who she was.Julia is a beautiful person and i dearly loved her story. One of the best i've read in quite awhile.
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Thirty years ago Julia Tavalaro had a stroke that left her dead to the outside world, but inside her, life was burning more fiercely than anyone knew. This is the story of that life and her remarkable journey. - from the cover

Finally someone realized that although she couldn't speak and could only move her eyes, Julia was conscious, and a new life began for her. This book contains her story and even poetry, "written" by her.


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