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  • Walk It Off

  • The true and hilarious story of how I learned to stand, walk, pee, run, and have sex again after a nightmarish diagnosis turned my awesome life upside down
  • By: Ruth Marshall
  • Narrated by: Ruth Marshall
  • Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
  • 2.3 out of 5 stars (3 ratings)

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Walk It Off

By: Ruth Marshall
Narrated by: Ruth Marshall
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Publisher's summary

Furiously Happy meets Elaine Lui in this truly original - and surprisingly hilarious - memoir about one woman’s journey to learn how to walk after a debilitating diagnosis turned her life upside down.

Learn How to Walk (Again) To-Do List:

  • Step 1: Stand,
  • Step 2: Step,
  • Step 3: Pee (Yes!),
  • Step 4: Walk with walker,
  • Step 5: Walk with sticks,
  • Step 6: Walk without props Recreational interlude for sex Step,
  • 7: RUN!

Ruth Marshall - power-mom, wife, actor, and daughter - was in great health, until one day, her feet started to tingle. As the feeling travelled up her legs, Ruth visited doctors and specialists for tests, but no one could figure out the cause of her symptoms. Was she imagining those pesky tingles? And then came a new numbness spreading up her legs. Was this menopause coming way ahead of schedule? She tried to brush it off, even as she tripped over curbs and bumbled into people. Clumsiness is charming, right?

But when Ruth suddenly couldn’t feel her legs at all, she knew something was terribly wrong. Her fears were confirmed by an MRI revealing a rare tumor - a meningioma - that had been quietly growing on her spine for over a decade. Within days, surgery was scheduled, and after the intense eight-hour ordeal, Ruth woke up to find her legs and feet had forgotten how to do... well, everything. The question that burned in her mind was, "Will I ever walk again?"

©2018 Ruth Marshall (P)2019 Heraclon Publishing Canada
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Book was boring and extremely tedious. Everyone that has gone through surgery goes through the same thing. Nothing new or surprising. Perhaps because I broke my femur in 4 places (and then cracked the screw), was 20% weight bearing for 5 months, then had shoulder replacement, followed by fusion surgery on my back all within 3 years, I am less than sympathetic.

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