Go Back and Be Happy: A Devastating Brain Injury Left Julie at the Gates of Heaven ...An Oldmobile, driven by a teenager, crushed Julie's little sports car and left her in a coma, with anextremely severe brain stem injury. She finds herself at heaven's door, where she meets her two grandmothers. She steps eagerly forward, but her grandmothers tell her to return to her body. "I don't belong here yet. It isn't my time." After a month she wakes to find herself trapped in a paralysed body. An athlete, she finds the helplessness almost unbearable, but is sustained by her memory of heaven. Julie describes her painful but remarkable recovery - she ran a 5k race just five years later, and in 2007 completed a triathlon. Her spiritual journey to a rich and satisfying faith helps her to find true happiness, which she now shares with thousands. |
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Contents
Foreword | 11 |
10 May 1993 at 655 pm | 13 |
A Change in Lifes Direction | 17 |
Visiting Heaven | 20 |
Waking Up from a Coma | 25 |
Squeezing Toothpaste | 31 |
A New Reality | 48 |
A Taste of Grace | 57 |
Contemplating Suicide | 100 |
Sessions with a Nun | 115 |
Difficult Conversations | 121 |
Running Across the Finish Line | 127 |
The Pursuit of Happiness | 136 |
The Voice of My Heart | 143 |
A US Olympic Swim Coach | 148 |
A Dream Quest | 154 |
Preparing to Go Home | 71 |
Life as an Adult Child | 77 |
A Sense of Normalcy | 86 |
Meeting Dr Shea | 91 |
Ready to Live on My Own | 96 |
Saying Goodbye to My Past | 159 |
Finishing the Race | 162 |
Am I Happy? | 165 |
Resources | 181 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Go Back and Be Happy: A Devastating Brain Injury Left Julie at the Gates of Heaven ... |
| Author | Julie Papievis |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Monarch Books, 2008 |
| ISBN | 1854248715, 9781854248718 |
| Length | 190 pages |
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