Binding: Hardcover
Description: This "compulsively readable memoir. brings to light an issue that has been too long ignored. An immensely important book" (Emily Oster New York Times bestselling author of Expecting Better and Cribsheet). A story of a mother's fierce love for her exceptional child and her courageous journey to break the silence about a hidden risk to pregnant women: "both a beautiful family story and an urgent call to action A moving potentially life - altering book" (Robert Kolker author of #1 New York Times bestseller Hidden Valley Road). After a seemingly uneventful pregnancy Megan Nix's second daughter Anna was born very small and profoundly deaf. Megan and her husband Luke learned that Anna could have lifelong delays due to an infection from a virus they had never heard of: cytomegalovirus or CMV which Megan had unwittingly contracted from her toddler during pregnancy. Megan was electrified by this knowledge. She had been warned while pregnant about the risks of saunas sushi and unpasteurized cheese a lack of folic acid and an excess of kitty litter. She knew to fear a slew of genetic syndromes she could do little to prevent. But she had not been told that CMV is contagious in the saliva of one out of three toddlers spread through a kiss a shared cup a bite of unfinished toast. She had not been told that the stakes were high that congenital CMV causes more birth defects and childhood disabilities including blindness deafness cerebral palsy epilepsy and autism than any infectious disease. Or that some of these disabilities are evident at birth but others appear suddenly at age two or three and are never traced back to congenital CMV. Remedies for Sorrow unfolds across the dramatic landscape of Sitka Alaska where Luke makes his living as a salmon fisherman. There Megan struggles to meet Anna's needs and dives deeper into the mystery of why no one not her Obgyn not her toddler's pediatrician had mentioned CMV despite the staggering cost of this silence to families and children like Anna. From this rugged and beautiful place comes a memoir about the boundless capacity of mothers the extraordinary child that is Anna and the lifesaving power of truth.
Title: Remedies For Sorrow
Author(s): Nix Megan
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Barcode: 9780385548595
Language: English
Publication Date: 4/18/2023