When I attended the most recent local Acoustic Neuroma support group meeting in Washington State last winter, someone had a copy of a newly printed memoir of a post-surgical story. The author wasn’t whining, just telling his story.
I decided to self-publish my story. It was, thankfully, the one I needed to hear when I was diagnosed that I could not find.
It’s based for the most part on my own personal journal entries that I kept after my diagnosis. I hope that the support and hope and encouragement I received from other AN survivors could be “paid forward.”
My plan is to bring copies of “A Whole New Normal” with me to the AN Symposium in LA in August 2013, and give it to newly diagnosed attendees. (and sell it to the doctors…)
They’ll be available for sale through the www.villagebooks.com website, and on this website starting in August. (this Website is still under construction.)
Any profits from the sale of the book will be donated equally to the Acoustic Neuroma Associations of the US and Canada, the two organizations that I received information, support and encouragement from.
For the time being, if you are a Facebook user, you can “like” the Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/AWholeNewNormal)