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Author:
Crisp, Claire, author.
Title:
Waking Mathilda : a memoir of childhood narcolepsy / Claire Crisp.
Publisher:
Palace Gate Press,
Copyright Date:
2017
Description:
xvii, 273 pages ; 21 cm
Subject:
Mothers of children with disabilities--Biography.
Narcolepsy--Diagnosis.
Narcolepsy--Treatment.
Sleep disorders in children.
Memoir.
Contents:
Bristol Children's Hospital -- New Forest -- Mathilda -- Breathing -- Princeton -- Batch no. A81CA149A -- Good Friday, bad Friday -- Collapse -- Catch her when she falls -- "What's common is common" -- Unraveling -- Psychiatric threat -- Diagnosis -- Never a normal tomorrow -- Xyrem -- The wind of freedom blows -- The city of dreaming spires -- H1N1 vaccine -- Mother's guilt -- Hope -- The City of Angels -- Dream.
Summary:
After receiving an H1N1 flu vaccine, three-year-old Mathilda begins showing signs of a neurological disorder, including insomnia, problems with speech, loss of bladder control, and falling asleep during the day. Frustrated at a lack of a concrete diagnosis and treatment, the Crisp family moves from London to Los Angeles where Mathilda's childhood narcolepsy is properly identified and treated.
ISBN:
0998694029
9780998694023
OCLC:
(OCoLC)982062177
Locations:
GHPD771 -- Grimes Public Library (Grimes)

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