National Rehabilitation Awareness Week

Meet Rosemary Rawlins, author
Learning by Accident

Join us for a book reading/signing and reception to celebrate National Rehabilitation Awareness Week and the release of Rosemary’s inspirational memoir. 

This is the heading of the flyer HealthSouth is advertising for my first major public event with the book, and it's heady stuff for me. Hugh and his parents will attend the HealthSouth event with me this coming Wednesday as I give my first talk and read from my book for the first time to a public audience. The place and reason for this talk could not be more important to me. HealthSouth is the hospital I chose for Hugh 33 days after he was discharged from the hospital, having travelled through the ICU, the med/surge floor, and the acute brain injury ward within a month's time. He had progressed, but he was still seriously ill, extremely impaired and barely able to perform activities of daily living with prompting. 

Well planned, well-delivered, continuing rehabilitation is an absolute necessity after a brain injury. The doctor, nurses, therapists and social worker we met at HealthSouth contributed daily to Hugh's recovery, a recovery that not only helped him heal, but helped him reclaim his life.

So if you have ever visited a rehab center or hospital, take a moment this week to acknowledge and appreciate the life-changing therapist in your own story--the person or persons who, with compassion,  knowledge, and a bit of athletic grit, helped you dig deep into the well of your own strength so you could return to your life in better health.

Please join me this week, if you can, and don't forget to register by phone:

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

3:30pm-6pm
Formal presentation begins at 4:15pm

HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital of Virginia
5700 Fitzhugh Ave Richmond, VA 23226

Books will be available for purchase at the event
RSVP to Tonya Ferguson at 804-673-4503; tonya.ferguson@healthsouth.com