After a cornea operation temporarily restored her sigh, Vivian Chong raced against time to draw her graphic memoir. Sketching at a feverish pace, she recorded all the memories of her harrowing story while she could still see the page. When Chongs vision faded away completely, she enlisted another graphic memoirist, Georgia Webber (Dumb: Living without a Voice), and the two women collaborated to create this poignant work of graphic medicine. "In late 2004, Vivian Chong's life was changed forever when a rare skin disease, TEN (Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis), left her with scar tissue that would eventually blind her. As she was losing her sight, she put down as many drawings on paper as she could to document the experience. In Dancing After TEN, Chong teams up with cartoonist Georgia Webber -- whose graphic autobiography, Dumb, chronicled her own disability -- to trace her journey out of the darkness and into the spotlight. Chong now expresses her art through singing, stand-up, drumming, running, and dancing. This graphic novel is an inspirational tale and a powerful work of graphic medicine."-- cover page 4.
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