Into the Blue: A Father's Flight and a Daughter's Return
by Susan Edsall
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The Chicago Sun Times praises "Into the Blue is Susan Edsall's fascinating chronicle of the fight to get her father back into his beloved Big Sky...an engagingly readable testament to an everyday courage....Salted with hilarious memories of Edsall family life, peppered with touching reminiscences of flight with her father, Edsall] mixes the positive with the painful until it's not only palatable but also poignant."Three years ago, Susan Edsall's father, a rebuilder and pilot of antique show more airplanes, suffered a devastating stroke that left him unable to read, write, speak, tell time, understand the alphabet---or fly. The doctors told Susan the best her family could hope for was that he would learn to play checkers. Susan knew if her dad couldn't fly, he'd just as soon not breathe, so she chose another path. Battling the pessimistic conclusion of the experts---and her own looming fears---she and her sister, Sharon, aka the Blister Sisters, decided to take matters into their own hands. With no medical training but double doses of determination, they bushwhacked their own rehab program and got their father back behind the controls of his beloved open-cockpit biplane and into the air.Susan Edsall's Into the Blue is a powerful family memoir about two feisty sisters from Montana who bring their father back to life---and discover themselves in the process. Inspiring, gritty, and often hilarious, it's also the story of anyone who has ever fought back from a dire prognosis to pursue a cherished dream. show lessTags
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This was easily the best book I've read in a long time. The story kept me captivated, and I laughed and cried with her as Susan told her story. She does a great job telling of the struggle when her dad has a stroke. She also mixes it with stories from her childhood, and through it you begin to relate to her family and you see the growth she and her sister go through as they walk with their parents through this struggle. I also found it amazing that there was so little help for people who go through strokes, at least in her neck of the woods, although her husband reiterated that in his research, and they lived across the country from her parents. Pretty appalling, really. But the story wasn't centered around the care or lack thereof by show more the medical profession. It was about the walk she and her sister took with her dad. Great, great book.Thank you for it! show less
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Susan Edsall took her first airplane flight with her dad when she was four years old. A pilot herself, she lives with her husband in Vershire, Vermont, and still flies regularly with her father in Montana.
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- Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir
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- 362.196 — Society, Government, and Culture Social problems and social services Social Welfare People with physical illnesses Services to people with specific conditions Diseases
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- RC388.5 .E324 — Medicine Internal medicine Internal medicine Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry Neurology. Diseases of the nervous system
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