Second Lives
Ralph B. Lilly MD
One man’s journey from doctor to patient to healer. Second Lives is a first-hand account of neurologist Ralph Lilly’s recovery from a traumatic brain injury and how the lessons of his recovery enabled him to help others with their own recoveries.
“Discharged from a hospital just means you’re not dead.” These words of Ralph B. Lilly, M.D., describe his early struggle to recover from a traumatic brain injury. Lilly was a forty-four-year-old practicing neurologist sitting on his motorcycle at a red light when a drunk driver rear-ended him in 1980. In the ICU, after regaining consciousness and being told what happened, he asked, “What’s a hospital? What’s a motorcycle?” This tragic experience transformed his life and his approach to his neurology practice: doctors treat those with brain injury; but loved ones heal them.
Second Lives: The Journey of Brain Injury Survivors and Their Healers is written by Dr. Lilly and Diane F. Kramer. After his death in 2021, Kramer completed the book with the assistance of Lilly’s wife, Joyce Stamp Lilly. This memoir weaves together Ralph Lilly’s experience with a collage of stories about his patients and their healers. After his recovery, Lilly retrained in the emerging field of behavioral neurology, which focuses on behavior, memory, cognition, and emotion after brain injury.
Duration - 6h 21m.
Author - Ralph B. Lilly MD.
Narrator - Loren C. Steffy.
Published Date - Sunday, 28 January 2024.
Copyright - © 2023 Joyce Stamp Lilly and Diane F. Kramer ©.
Location:
United States
Networks:
Ralph B. Lilly MD
Loren C. Steffy
Stoney Creek Publishing Group
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Description:
One man’s journey from doctor to patient to healer. Second Lives is a first-hand account of neurologist Ralph Lilly’s recovery from a traumatic brain injury and how the lessons of his recovery enabled him to help others with their own recoveries. “Discharged from a hospital just means you’re not dead.” These words of Ralph B. Lilly, M.D., describe his early struggle to recover from a traumatic brain injury. Lilly was a forty-four-year-old practicing neurologist sitting on his motorcycle at a red light when a drunk driver rear-ended him in 1980. In the ICU, after regaining consciousness and being told what happened, he asked, “What’s a hospital? What’s a motorcycle?” This tragic experience transformed his life and his approach to his neurology practice: doctors treat those with brain injury; but loved ones heal them. Second Lives: The Journey of Brain Injury Survivors and Their Healers is written by Dr. Lilly and Diane F. Kramer. After his death in 2021, Kramer completed the book with the assistance of Lilly’s wife, Joyce Stamp Lilly. This memoir weaves together Ralph Lilly’s experience with a collage of stories about his patients and their healers. After his recovery, Lilly retrained in the emerging field of behavioral neurology, which focuses on behavior, memory, cognition, and emotion after brain injury. Duration - 6h 21m. Author - Ralph B. Lilly MD. Narrator - Loren C. Steffy. Published Date - Sunday, 28 January 2024. Copyright - © 2023 Joyce Stamp Lilly and Diane F. Kramer ©.
Language:
English
Opening Credits
Duration:00:00:22
Foreword by Dr. John Cassidy
Duration:00:08:02
Part One: Coming Back to Life
Duration:00:01:19
Chapter 1: Shattered
Duration:00:13:57
Chapter 2: Fortuity
Duration:00:08:25
Chapter 3: Rehab Pilgrimmage
Duration:00:14:48
Chapter 4: Floating Alone: Naomi Spence
Duration:00:19:29
Chapter 5: California Dreamin'
Duration:00:13:09
Chapter 6: Feet on the Ground
Duration:00:14:30
Chapter 7: Landing in Texas
Duration:00:14:11
Part Two: Healers and Survivors
Duration:00:00:47
Chapter 8: The Historical Case of Phineas Gage
Duration:00:07:18
Chapter 9: Family of Healers: Donna and Levi Coppedge
Duration:00:22:58
Chapter 10: Hardheaded Healer: Peggy and Bobby Bourque
Duration:00:14:05
Chapter 11: Long Haul: Cindy and Bruce Moeykens
Duration:00:18:21
Chapter 12: Forever Changed: Jennifer and Russell Moya
Duration:00:21:43
Chapter 13: Grateful Healer: Pat and Farris Wilburn
Duration:00:16:24
Part Three: In Their Own Words
Duration:00:00:15
Chapter 14: I Never Set Out To Be a Healer: as told by Joyce Stamp Lilly
Duration:00:22:26
Chapter 15: Rekindled Spirit: as told by Linda Geffin
Duration:00:31:40
Chapter 16: Fairy Tale to Nightmare: as told by Marybeth Corliss
Duration:00:33:35
Chapter 17: Benched for Life: as told by Cathy Frietsch
Duration:00:22:51
Part Four: Full Circle
Duration:00:00:23
Chapter 18: Reflections
Duration:00:12:50
Chapter 19: Squared Away
Duration:00:13:02
Afterword by Joyce Stamp Lilly
Duration:00:21:11
Co-Author's Note
Duration:00:12:23
Ending Credits
Duration:00:00:43