Dr Awdish’s telling of this story is tense, powerful and gripping, and her writing style is often nothing short of beautiful – evocative and emotional. Somehow, against gargantuan odds, she not only survived, but came out of this ordeal neurologically intact, and is now back working as a medic and educator. She very sadly lost her baby, required multiple major operations and went on to accumulate a royal flush of every imaginable medical complication, from septic shock to stroke. A mass in her liver ruptured during pregnancy, a vanishingly rare event, and her entire blood volume leaked into her abdomen. I n two thousand and something (we’re never given an idea of dates in the book, meaning we’re always slightly disoriented in time, as if we’re drifting in and out of a coma in intensive care), Dr Rana Awdish was admitted to the Detroit hospital she worked in and came pretty much as close as is possible to death.
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