Why do we fall ill? How do we get better? When his two-year-old son develops epilepsy, Shane Neilson and his wife, Janet, struggle to obtain timely care for him while at the same time navigating their young daughter's diagnosis of childhood depression. His family's journey through a sometimes inadequate and often uncaring medical system is informed by Shane's personal history of bipolar disorder and his professional experience with disability as a practicing physician. With poetic language and imagery, Shane illustrates his personal experience of "madness" and describes his struggles with neurodivergence from the point of view of both patient and practitioner. In this poignant memoir about fatherhood, illness, and family, Shane Neilson shows that it is possible to not only escape the wreckage of the past, but to celebrate living with disability in the present.
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