Summary of Frank Bruni's The Beauty of Dusk

Everest Media

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 I went to bed believing I was in control of my life, but I woke up realizing how little I actually was in control of anything. I went to bed with more grievances than I could count, but I woke up with more gratitude than I could measure.
#2 I was a boomer, born in the last qualifying year of 1946 to 1964, and thus the inheritor of a brand of overconfidence and defiance that doesn’t make adequate allowances for the wages of aging and inevitability of affliction.
#3 I had one relatively harmless carcinoma surgically excised from my back ten years earlier, and another erased from my nose by a chemotherapy cream. I had no problems with my eyesight.
#4 When you travel down the road of a complicated, unusual or serious illness, you learn that your ache for answers isn't necessarily everyone else's. While your situation is front and center for you, it is likely back burner for your white-coated saviors, who juggle scores of equally pressing cases and clients.

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 28 mars 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669368373
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Frank Bruni's The Beauty of Dusk
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3 Insights from Chapter 4 Insights from Chapter 5 Insights from Chapter 6 Insights from Chapter 7 Insights from Chapter 8 Insights from Chapter 9 Insights from Chapter 10 Insights from Chapter 11 Insights from Chapter 12 Insights from Chapter 13 Insights from Chapter 14
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I went to bed believing I was in control of my life, but I woke up realizing how little I actually was in control of anything. I went to bed with more grievances than I could count, but I woke up with more gratitude than I could measure.

#2

I was a boomer, born in the last qualifying year of 1946 to 1964, and thus the inheritor of a brand of overconfidence and defiance that doesn’t make adequate allowances for the wages of aging and inevitability of affliction.

#3

I had one relatively harmless carcinoma surgically excised from my back ten years earlier, and another erased from my nose by a chemotherapy cream. I had no problems with my eyesight.

#4

When you travel down the road of a complicated, unusual or serious illness, you learn that your ache for answers isn't necessarily everyone else's. While your situation is front and center for you, it is likely back burner for your white-coated saviors, who juggle scores of equally pressing cases and clients.

#5

I had a stroke, and it was the most frightening and exciting thing that had ever happened to me. I was excited and scared at the same time.

#6

I had a sudden drop in blood pressure, which caused one of my optic nerves to be deprived of blood, ravaging it. There was a chance that I would go blind in my other eye.

#7

There was a trial of a drug to repair some of the optic-nerve damage done by my type of stroke, and it was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration. I wanted in, but there were several reasons why I wouldn’t be able to participate.

#8

The trial wasn’t for pessimists or cowards, and I was both. I was sure that it would rain on the days when I most wanted sunshine, and I was braced for a desired romantic partner’s immediate or eventual rejection.

#9

I took the subway from West Seventy-Second Street and Broadway to East Fourteenth Street and Third Avenue. I walked a long, chilly block to the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai. I searched in vain for a check-in desk. I cursed the labyrinthine layout of the hospital. I was summoned to a colorless examining room.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

The verb see is omnipresent and extremely flexible. It is used to refer to the visual processing of objects, but it is also used to refer to the mental processing of reality.

#2

The loss of eyes is the ultimate horror, and for many people, it’s unthinkable. But I took in the idea that my vision was at risk in a manner different than I would have if it had been my ability to hear, touch, taste or smell that was threatened.

#3

I began to appreciate the people in my life more. I realized that we know too little about the people in our lives, because we only inspect them superficially and ask easy and polite questions.

#4

The conventional wisdom is that 40 percent of people who have a stroke experience some sort of healing of the optic nerve, but that is not always the case. Most people who go blind saw reasonably well at birth and as children, and they typically get a notice before their vision starts to deteriorate.

#5

NAION can strike at any age, but it is most common in people over the age of fifty. It can affect peripheral vision, making it harder for people with it to see objects above or below them or to the side.