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Rusty's Story

4/5 ( ratings)

After a two-decade career as a registered nurse, Carol Gino established herself as a writer of exceptional sensitivity and uncompromising honesty with her national bestseller, The Nurse s Story. In that book and now in Rusty s Story, she displays her extraordinary gift for reaching out to others and touching the common chord of humanity in all of us.

Barbara Russell - Rusty - was a normal if poor teenager until her freshman year of high school, when she had an epileptic seizure at a football game. From then on, misdiagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia as well as toxicity from over medication led to nightmarish periods in a state mental institution. Even after she began living with Carol, a nurse, who joined her fight for more humane treatment, nothing improved. With persistence and patience they were able to......well, let s not give away the ending, we can tell you it will be a book you will not want to put down. Enjoy!
It won the Epilepsy Foundation National Book Award

Language: English

Pages: 342

Format: Mass Market Paperback

Publisher: Bantam

Release: December 01, 1985

ISBN: 0553253514

ISBN 13: 9780553253511

Rusty's Story

4/5 ( ratings)

After a two-decade career as a registered nurse, Carol Gino established herself as a writer of exceptional sensitivity and uncompromising honesty with her national bestseller, The Nurse s Story. In that book and now in Rusty s Story, she displays her extraordinary gift for reaching out to others and touching the common chord of humanity in all of us.

Barbara Russell - Rusty - was a normal if poor teenager until her freshman year of high school, when she had an epileptic seizure at a football game. From then on, misdiagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia as well as toxicity from over medication led to nightmarish periods in a state mental institution. Even after she began living with Carol, a nurse, who joined her fight for more humane treatment, nothing improved. With persistence and patience they were able to......well, let s not give away the ending, we can tell you it will be a book you will not want to put down. Enjoy!
It won the Epilepsy Foundation National Book Award

Language: English

Pages: 342

Format: Mass Market Paperback

Publisher: Bantam

Release: December 01, 1985

ISBN: 0553253514

ISBN 13: 9780553253511

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