Professor Cromer Learns to Read by Janet M. Cromer

Lee Woodruff, coauthor of In an Instant: a Family’s Journey of Love and Healing, and author of Perfectly Imperfect

Cromer takes us beyond the injury and into the recovery, which, while painstaking, never fails to help us understand the beauty and the grace in little things and to cherish what we do have. I found myself eager to turn each page, cheering on the little accomplishments and grieving with her at the very complicated loss and grief that accompanies this devastating life change. Janet Cromer has captured so elegantly and emotionally the ups and downs and roller coaster ride of experiencing a brain injury in her book Professor Cromer Learns to Read. The universality of their situation transcends ages and diseases to salute The couple's process of graciously and grudgingly accepting the roles of chronically ill person and caregiver will resonate with many families. Alan shares his eloquent tour of the shattered and healing universe inside his brain. In a memoir brimming with information, Janet explores the mysteries and miracles of their new world from her perspective as Alan's wife, Interpreter of the World, and rehab partner. So began a seven year journey of intensive rehabilitation, combined with shaping a new identity, marriage, and life.Ībove all, 'Professor Cromer Learns to Read' is a love story about a marriage that transforms and triumphs, but is never defeated by catastrophic illness. In a flash, the successful physics professor became a brain injury survivor struggling to relearn everything he once knew. When a harrowing heart attack and cardiac arrest robbed Alan's brain of vital oxygen, he lost his abilities to read, write, walk, talk, think, and remember.

Professor Cromer Learns to Read by Janet M. Cromer