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A Guide To Open Water Lifesaving: Lessons On Love, Care, And Survival: A Memoir
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A Spirited, Wise, Often Hilarious, Profoundly Moving Story Of One WomanS Efforts To Survive Caregiving, Trauma, Love, And The Systems Seemingly Set Up To Fail Us.Only If You Are A Very Able Swimmer Trained In OpenWater Rescue Should You Approach Drowning Victims . . . Reach With A Rope Or Branch, Rowout And Offer The Drowning Person An Oar. Do Not Get In The Water.But Also:No One Survives The Wilderness Alone.One Night, Virginia Eubanks Received The Kind Of News We All Fear. Her Beloved Partner Had Been Attacked, Brutally Beaten Just Steps From Their House. In The Weeks, Then Months And Years That Followed, They Faced A Cascade Of Setbacks: Police Disinterest, Suspended Health Insurance, Inadequate Medical Care, Lost Income, Lost Friends, Endless Paperwork, And A Serious Case Of PostTraumatic Stress Disorder. Then, A Second Case. In Her Time Tending To Him, Eubanks Had Developed What Is Known As Collateral Ptsd, Common Among Caregivers But Rarely Discussed.A Reporter And An Activist, Eubanks Turned To Reliable Sources To Figure Out How To Heal: Scientists, Therapists, Trauma Theorists, Social Movements. But It WasnT Until She Happened On An Old Lifesaving Manual That She Found Practical Advice That Actually Helped. Inspired By These Lessons, She Signed Up For A Series Of Classes: Kayak Selfrescue, Winter Survival 101, Map And Compass, Bushwhacking, Wilderness First Aid, Lifeguarding. In A Memoir As Disarmingly Funny As It Is Quietly Wise, Eubanks Draws Lessons In Kinship From These Experiences, Her Research, And Interviews With Everyone From Neuroscientists To Forest Rangers. The Result Is A Genuinely Moving, Hopeful, Darkly Funny Story Of Two People Caught In Their Own Kind Of Wilderness, Trying Not Just To Survive But To Truly Care For Each Other. Built From Cataclysmic Loss And Tenacious Love, A Guide To Open Water Lifesaving Challenges Readers To Reconsider The Networks Of Care That Sustain Our Lives, Reminding Us That No One Survives The Wilderness Alone.
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