Download Smiling Again: Coming Back to Life and Faith After Brain Surgery AudioBook Free

"AFTER I woke up...I quickly became aware that gliding through brain surgery recovery was not the top plan. Pain, paralysis, and single-sided deafness loomed ahead." Sally Stap was in the midst of a busy and successful 25-time career in information technology, juggling the usual concerns about job, daughters, and life, when the unthinkable occurred: She was identified as having an acoustic neuroma, a harmless but large brain tumor. Written with a poignant mixture of honesty, dry humor, faith, and inquisitiveness, Smiling Again is a story of the persistence of life and beauty in spite of pain. Sally recounts the distress of diagnosis, an extended and painful recovery from invasive brain surgery, her eventual old age due to disability, and in the end contentment and approval of a fresh life trip. For caregivers and survivors, Sally stocks sensible lessons and tips that will help you find your own signposts of faith along a treacherous but in the end exhilarating trip, including:

• Be positive, but don't discount possible final results just because they don't really sound fun.
• Allow you to ultimately grieve because there is a fresh you.
• A love of life will provide you with a better personality than aggravation.

Whether you are a brain tumor survivor or are facing another experience that has brought you to the finish of yourself, Sally's experience demonstrates even though the most severe happens, God exists and noticeable in sometimes sudden ways. The near future you might not exactly be exactly like the old you, but it may lead you in new and satisfying directions.