Tethered
By (Author) Tracy Anne Ong
Penguin Random House SEA
Penguin Books
5th November 2024
Singapore
General
Non Fiction
Biography: science, technology and medicine
Paperback
256
Width 136mm, Height 215mm, Spine 19mm
290g
Frolics from a stroke. Tracy was at the start of her law career and at the cusp of life when she got a debilitating brainstem stroke that affected her breathing, swallowing, speech, eyesight, and severely weakened her left and paralysed her right. She found herself effectively a thinking statue at the age of 35. This is an account of her journey to recovery. As her brain is reset, she finds, so is her life. Like a growing child, she learns the most basic things anew, and more insightfully, the second time around. She sees the world in a different dimension this time - as wheelchair-bound. She discovers what faith means when it is all that is left. In amusing and heart-wrenching anecdotes, she finds that there is a life to be had, even in the cracks.
A. Ong is an Intellectual Property lawyer in the Philippines. She holds a Juris Doctor from the University of the Philippines and a Masters of Laws with Certificates of Specialization in Business Law and Law and Technology from the University of California, Berkeley. She has worked in SyCipLaw and a start-up before opening her online independent bookstore, Blithe Books. She has taught intellectual property and special commercial laws in the University of Cebu.