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Flying without Wings
- Personal Reflections on Loss, Disability, and Healing
- Narrated by: Eric G. Dove
- Length: 4 hrs and 34 mins
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Flying without Wings
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Publisher's Summary
At twenty-four, Arnold Beisser was a recent medical school graduate and a nationally ranked tennis player. But overnight a devastating bout of polio left him permanently paralyzed from the neck down and dependent on an iron lung to draw his next breath. Polio robbed Arnold Beisser of his strength, his athletic ability, and almost his life. Yet he discovered in this unthinkable trap not only the expected sadness and despair, but wonder, delight, and the pleasure of everyday living.
This is the wise, deeply moving, and warmly humorous account of Arnold Beisser’s search for a new life and meaning as he comes to terms with his disability and then transcends it … to practice psychiatry, to fall in love, truly to soar without wings. His spirit and determination to fight for happiness will inspire any listener faced with unbearable loss. Dr. Beisser shows us why the contrast between winner and loser, athlete and cripple, is in our minds much more than in our bodies. And he shares with us the experiences that taught him life’s greatest truth: nothing can keep you from love, laughter, meaningful work, or enlightenment—except yourself.