Strangers assume my girlfriend is my nurse
INITIAL_TITLE_SRCH:
Strangers assume my girlfriend is my nurse
AUTHOR:
Burcaw, Shane.
ISBN:
9781626727700
EDITION:
First edition.
PUBLICATION_INFO:
New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2019.
PHYSICAL_DESC:
197 p. : ill. ; 22 cm
CONTENTS:
Introduction -- Eighth-grade pee fiasco -- Ron -- Locked out -- Road rage and rag dolls -- Strangers assume my girlfriend is my nurse -- Buffalo -- Reddit -- Laughing at our nightmare -- Jerika -- Beaufort -- Rant -- Deadly ducks and cheese curds -- The elevator -- San Francisco -- Hannah and Shane take Manhattan -- Adaption -- Your complete guide to Shane's sex life -- Another bathroom story -- Coughing -- If I could walk -- Spinraza -- StankTour -- The move.
ABSTRACT:
"With his signature acerbic wit and hilarious voice, twenty-something author, blogger, and entrepreneur Shane Burcaw is back with an essay collection about living a full life in a body that many people perceive as a tragedy. From anecdotes about first introductions where people patted him on the head instead of shaking his hand, to stories of passersby mistaking his able-bodied girlfriend for a nurse, Shane tackles awkward situations and assumptions with humor and grace. On the surface, these essays are about day-to-day life as a wheelchair user with a degenerative disease, but they are actually about family, love, and coming of age."-- Amazon.
PERSONAL_SUBJECT:
SUBJECT:
| Spinal muscular atrophy -- Patients -- United States -- Biography. |
| People with disabilities -- United States. |
| Burcaw, Shane -- Health. |
BIBSUMMARY:
"With his signature acerbic wit and hilarious voice, twenty-something author, blogger, and entrepreneur Shane Burcaw is back with an essay collection about living a full life in a body that many people perceive as a tragedy. From anecdotes about first introductions where people patted him on the head instead of shaking his hand, to stories of passersby mistaking his able-bodied girlfriend for a nurse, Shane tackles awkward situations and assumptions with humor and grace. On the surface, these essays are about day-to-day life as a wheelchair user with a degenerative disease, but they are actually about family, love, and coming of age."--