"Health." . . "BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Personal Memoirs." . . . . "Guillain-Barre Syndrome history." . . "Guillain-Barré Syndrome United States Biography." . . "Guillain-Barré syndrome Patients." . . . . . "Zwei Arten von Verfall : Roman" . "Student Collection" . "Electronic books"@en . . . . . "Traces the author's struggles with a mysterious illness she contracted at the age of twenty-one, a nine-year journey during which she lost weeks of her life during each recurrence and endured painful cycles of addiction, depression, and treatments." . . . . "\"At age twenty-one, just starting to comprehend the usual puzzles of adulthood, Sarah Manguso was faced with yet another: a wildly unpredictable disease that appeared without warning. It tore through her twenties, vanishing and then returning, often paralyzing her for weeks at a time. The experience left Manguso first to expect nothing from her life, and then, furiously, to expect everything. In wry and unsentimental prose, Manguso recounts her nine-year struggle with this enigmatic affliction and its treatments, from emergency blood cleansings and collapsed veins to addiction and depression, to perhaps the unkindest cut of all for a writer - the trite metaphors that accompany prolonged illness.\"--Provided by publisher."@en . . "The two kinds of decay"@en . "Biography"@en . . "\"At twenty-one, just starting to comprehend the usual puzzles of adulthood, Sarah Manguso was faced with yet another: a wildly unpredictable autoimmune disease that appeared suddenly and tore through her twenties, paralyzing her for weeks at a time, programming her first to expect nothing from life, and then, furiously, to expect everything ... Manguso recounts her struggle: blood cleansings, collapsed veins, multiple chest catheters, depression ... and worst of all for a writer, the trite metaphors that accompany prolonged illness.\"--Back cover."@en . . . . "Biography" . "The two kinds of decay" . . . . "The two kinds of decay : [a memoir]"@en . "Erlebnisbericht" . . . . . . . . "Guillain-Barré-Syndrom." . .