![]() She traveled, tried water skiing, sailing, and also scuba diving. He made her do things she thought she cannot do. Will, on the other hand, gave her freedom. She made him appreciate people’s good intentions. She made him look forward to waking up each morning. She changed Will’s perception about life. ![]() This was just the beginning of the most wonderful six months of their lives. She and her boss didn’t get along at first but when she began to treat him like a normal person (not like some invalid) and addresses his being an arse to his face, they slowly clicked together. The carer, a woman of character, unemployed, has a boyfriend who is far more enthusiastic about his change of career plans than her, a family who depends on her, and has a quirky fashion sense. With her mother’s desperation to change his mind, she hired a carer and offered her a high compensation to make Will change his mind. His family were in denial and they want him to think it over. Additionally, they provide assisted suicide for people provided that they are of sound judgment and submit to an in-depth medical report prepared by a psychiatrist that establishes the patient’s condition, as required by Swiss courts. Then he requests for the unthinkable – that his family take him to Dignitas.ĭignitas is a Swiss assisted dying group that helps those with terminal illness and severe physical and mental illnesses to die assisted by qualified doctors and nurses. He can’t be the same person he was 2 years ago. Will, on the other hand, will forever be trapped in his wheel chair and will always be dependent on someone else’s help. He decided to live with Will and sacrifice his chance to live with the woman he loves. Will’s girlfriend, Alicia, is going to marry Rupert, his best friend. Everyone else was beginning to move on but not his family. So, it is not uncommon to have a quadriplegic with fully functional arms, only having their fingers not working.įAST FORWARD (TWO YEARS LATER). Quadriplegia is defined in many ways C1-C4 usually affects arm movement more so than a C5-C7 injury however all quadriplegics have or have had some kind of finger dysfunction. The injury, known as a lesion, causes victims to lose partial or total function of all four limbs, meaning the arms and the legs. Quadriplegia is caused by damage to the brain or the spinal cord at a high level C1 – C7 – in particular, spinal cord injuries secondary to an injury to the cervical spine. The loss is usually sensory and motor, which means both sensation and control are lost. Quadriplegia is paralysis caused by illness or injury to a human that results in the partial or total loss of use of all their limbs and torso Paraplegia is similar but does not affect the arms. He was just an innocent pedestrian when a motorist skidded towards him leaving him crippled and turning him into a quadriplegic. This was before the accident that almost took his life. I assure you this is a brilliant book and don’t let the book cover discourage you from reading this. The blurb of the book was enough for me to give it a try plus it has positive reviews. ![]() It was in my recommended shelf in Goodreads. But then, it wasn’t the book cover that got me into this. As you can see, the cover of Me Before You doesn’t speak volumes about the book. ![]() I got excited when I see a good book cover. THE COVER. As book readers say, “Do not judge a book by its cover.” Well, honestly, sometimes it’s the book cover that attracts my attention. And neither of them knows they’re going to change the other for all time. What Will doesn’t know is that Lou is about to burst into his world in a riot of colour. He knows everything feels very small and rather joyless now and he knows exactly how he’s going to put a stop to that. Will Traynor knows his motorcycle accident took away his desire to live. What Lou doesn’t know is she’s about to lose her job or that knowing what’s coming is what keeps her sane. She knows she likes working in The Buttered Bun tea shop and she knows she might not love her boyfriend Patrick. She knows how many footsteps there are between the bus stop and home. ![]()
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