000			03074nam a22003738i 4500
999			_c114214 _d114214
001			zzv350 b1614991
003			DLC
005			20190729124830.0
008			180131s2018 nyu 000 0beng
010			_a2017059572
020			_a9780062428738 (pbk.)
020			_a006242873X (pbk.)
040			_aDLC _beng _erda _cDLC
050			_aRC155.5 _b.K43 2018
100	1		_aKhakpour, Porochista,
245	1	0	_aSick : _ba memoir / _cPorochista Khakpour.
250			_aFirst edition.
263			_a1806.
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bHarper Perennial, _c[2018]
300			_apages cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent.
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia.
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier.
520			_a"In the tradition of Brain on Fire and Darkness Visible, an honest, beautifully rendered memoir of chronic illness, misdiagnosis, addiction, and the myth of full recovery that details author Porochista Khakpour's struggles with late-stage Lyme disease. For as long as writer Porochista Khakpour can remember, she has been sick. For most of that time, she didn't know why. All of her trips to the ER and her daily anguish, pain, and lethargy only ever resulted in one question: How could any one person be thissick? Several drug addictions, three major hospitalizations, and over $100,000 later, she finally had a diagnosis: late-stage Lyme disease. Sick is Khakpour's arduous, emotional journey--as a woman, a writer, and a lifelong sufferer of undiagnosed healthproblems--through the chronic illness that perpetually left her a victim of anxiety, living a life stymied by an unknown condition. Divided by settings, Khakpour guides the reader through her illness by way of the locations that changed her course--New York, LA, New Mexico, and Germany--as she meditates on both the physical and psychological impacts of uncertainty, and the eventual challenge of accepting the diagnosis she had searched for over the course of her adult life. With candor and grace, she examines her subsequent struggles with mental illness, her addiction to the benzodiazepines prescribed by her psychiatrists, and her ever-deteriorating physical health. A story about survival, pain, and transformation, Sick is a candid, illuminating narrativeof hope and uncertainty, boldly examining the deep impact of illness on one woman's life."-- _cProvided by publisher.
520			_a"An honest, beautifully rendered memoir of chronic illness, misdiagnosis, addiction, and the myth of full recovery that details author Porochista Khakpour struggles with late-stage Lyme disease"-- _cProvided by publisher.
600	1	0	_aKhakpour, Porochista, _xHealth.
650		0	_aLyme disease _xPatients _vBiography.
650		0	_aChronically ill _vBiography.
650		7	_aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Medical. _2bisacsh.
650		7	_aHEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases / General. _2bisacsh.
776	0	8	_iOnline version:
776	0	8	_aKhakpour, Porochista, author. _tSick _bFirst edition. _dNew York, NY : Harper Perennial, [2018] _z9780062428721 _w(DLC) 2018006002.
942			_2lcc