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02602atm a2200493 a 4500 001 BA379A9EE1E711E1B953AEC46AFF544E 003 SILO 005 20230211010336 007 ta 008 081117s2007 nyua 000 0 eng 010 $a 2007003092 020 $a 1400063353 (alk. paper) 020 $a 9781400063352 (alk. paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)80917348 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d SILO $d BAKER $d BTCTA $d WIQ $d VP@ $d NPL $d YDXCP $d BUR $d ULC $d IW8 $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a HV1792.M39 $b K87 2007 082 00 $a B $a B $2 22 100 1 $a Kurson, Robert 245 1 $a Crashing through : $b a true story of risk, adventure, and the man who dared to see / $c Robert Kurson. 250 $a 1st ed. 260 $a New York : $b Random House, $c c2007. 300 $a 306 p. : $b ill. ; $c 24 cm. 520 $a Writer Kurson tells the true story of one man's heroic odyssey from blindness into sight. Blinded at age three, Mike May defied expectations by breaking world records in downhill speed skiing, joining the CIA, and becoming a successful inventor, entrepreneur, and family man. He had never yearned for vision. Then, in 1999, a chance encounter: a revolutionary stem cell transplant surgery could restore May's vision. He began to contemplate an astonishing new world. Would music still sound the same? Would sex be different? Would he still be Mike May? The procedure was filled with risks. Even if it worked, fewer than twenty cases were known worldwide in which a person gained vision after a lifetime of blindness, and each of them suffered desperate consequences. There were countless reasons for May to pass. He could think of only a single reason to go forward: he knew it would change his life.--From publisher description. 521 1 $a Adult 650 0 $a Blind $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Eye $x Patients $x Patients $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Blind $x Rehabilitation $z United States $v Case studies. 700 1 $a May, Mike, $d 1953- 941 $a 12 952 $l GEPG771 $d 20210722015537.0 952 $l NUPD663 $d 20201013114446.0 952 $l NPPA983 $d 20201013105456.0 952 $l DJPD353 $d 20201013021452.0 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20200528034722.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20190702013242.0 952 $l MXPG943 $d 20180720033558.0 952 $l LEPI975 $d 20180202015415.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20160202033356.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20151001013206.0 952 $l MEPA423 $d 20150121012225.0 952 $l RZPE145 $d 20140619020030.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=BA379A9EE1E711E1B953AEC46AFF544E 994 $a C0 $b IW8Initiate Another SILO Locator Search