The Journey of Brain-Injury Survivors and Their Healers<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n By Ralph B. Lilly, MD & Diane F. Kramer, with Joyce Stamp Lilly<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Narrated by Loren C. Steffy & Joyce Stamp Lilly<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Audiobook \/ Biography \/ Medical Professionals \/ Neuroscience <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Publisher: Stoney Creek Publishing<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Listening Length: 6 hours and 21 minutes<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Publication Date: February 28, 2024<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Now Available<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n in Audiobook Format!<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n SYNOPSIS<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \u201cDischarged from a hospital just means you\u2019re not dead.\u201d These words of Ralph B. Lilly, M.D., describe his early struggle to recover from a traumatic brain injury. Lilly was a forty-four-year-old practicing neurologist sitting on his motorcycle at a red light when a drunk driver rear-ended him in 1980. In the ICU, after regaining consciousness and being told what happened, he asked, \u201cWhat\u2019s a hospital? What\u2019s a motorcycle?\u201d This tragic experience transformed his life and his approach to his neurology practice: doctors treat those with brain injury; but loved ones heal them.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Second Lives: The Journey of Brain Injury Survivors and Their Healers<\/span><\/span><\/i> is written by Dr. Lilly and Diane F. Kramer. After his death in 2021, Kramer completed the book with the assistance of Lilly\u2019s wife Joyce Stamp Lilly. This memoir weaves together Ralph Lilly\u2019s experience with a collage of stories about his patients and their healers. After his recovery, Lilly retrained in the emerging field of behavioral neurology, which focuses on behavior, memory, cognition, and emotion after brain injury.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n His clinical skills and expert witness testimony were sought by physicians, survivors, families, and attorneys to secure the best \u201csecond life\u201d for survivors. His many patients marveled at his uniquely compassionate approach: \u201cWhat doctor gives you his cell number and says call any time?\u201d Lilly\u2019s pioneering career spanned forty years from Brown University\u2019s Butler Psychiatric Hospital in Rhode Island to Nexus Health System and private practice in Houston, Texas. He treated ER and hospital inpatients whose loved ones were in acute quandary, as well as outpatients who\u2019d long given up finding a doctor who knew how to help. Lilly\u2019s memoir is full of heart, not science, and will provide insight to general readers, family, and friends of patients with brain injury, as well as those who treat them.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n His narration is unintentionally poignant, often punctuated by wry humor. He generously incorporates the words of his patients and their families in telling their stories. Their gratitude for his care is profound. As one former patient said, \u201cWithout Dr. Lilly, I\u2019d be dead or in jail.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n CLICK TO PURCHASE:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Amazon<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/a> | <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span>Audible<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/a> | <\/span><\/span><\/span>Stoney Creek Publishing<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Add to Goodreads<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n ABOUT THE AUTHORS<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span> A neurologist for over half a century, Ralph B. Lilly, MD<\/b> had a passion for learning and teaching. A traumatic brain injury in 1980 shifted his focus from general neurology to behavioral neurology, the study of how brain injury affects behavior. After completing a fellowship in neurobehavior at the University of California, Los Angeles, he served as a clinical assistant professor with the Brown University Program in Medicine in Providence, Rhode Island, consulting with psychiatrists looking for possible neurological causes for their patients\u2019 psychiatric symptoms. In Texas, he worked joined what is now Nexus Health Systems and became a clinical assistant professor at The University of Texas in Houston. Lilly focused his life\u2019s work on treating brain-injury survivors and counseling their families, who were victims in their own right. He saw these \u201chealers\u201d as instrumental in guiding the injured loved one to a \u201cnew life.\u201d He practiced in Arizona, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Texas, and wherever he was called to help. Before his death in 2021, Lilly lived in Washington, Texas, with his wife, Joyce, three dogs, six cats, and two horses. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Diane F. Kramer<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/b> retired from the counseling and psychology departments of Austin Community College in 2008 and began writing personal essays, family histories, and fiction. As a volunteer with the Brenham Animal Shelter, she wrote a weekly column on animal welfare for The Brenham Banner Press. Her writing has also appeared in Alamo Bay Press anthologies and blogs Peace through Pie and Drash Pit. She currently writes website copy and press releases for Brenham Lifetime Learning and the Read of Washington County<\/i>. 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