Andrew Butters, Avery Butters, Jodi Wilks-Butters

Bent But Not Broken: One Family's Scoliosis Journey (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Bent But Not Broken is a heartfelt journey of a girl and her family as they navigate the healthcare system from diagnosis to surgery and beyond. Follow them as they use their own words in blog posts and through an emotional and gripping narrative that puts you right by their side. All the ups, downs, challenges, and successes of the experience changed their lives and taught them that compassion and love build strong communities, even stronger families, and that true strength comes from the most unlikely sources. For the Butters family, the punch that knocked the wind out of them was a diagnosis of severe idiopathic scoliosis for their eleven-year-old daughter Avery. The only viable treatment option was spinal fusion surgery. It was a terrifying prospect to stare down. Frustrated with the lack of information on what the family would actually experience, Avery's mother, Jodi, started a family blog. It was there that Avery, Jodi, and Andrew would share their thoughts and experiences about the journey in real-time. Jodi was determined that if there were other families searching for this information her family would be able to provide it. When it was all said and done and the blog came to its rightful conclusion, the writer in Andrew felt that since the blog was so successful at spreading the message then surely there were other ways to help spread the word and share lessons that even applied beyond Avery's scoliosis.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Potato Chip Math Creations
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781778132216
• Artikelnr.: 64137995

Autorenporträt

Andrew Butters is a writer and creator, and a married father of two living in New Brunswick, Canada. He'll tell you that his first published work was Losing Vern as part of the Orange Karen: A Tribute to a Warrior anthology. In reality, it was a 500-word anecdote about the time he lit himself on fire. That story was included in the third installment of the Darwin Awards books. His humorous memoir of misfortune, Near Death By A Thousand Cuts, features the uncensored version.

Not all his distinctions are as dubious as appearing in a Darwin Awards book. He participated in a trick on stage with Penn & Teller and appeared on the Super Dave Osborne Show. How about scoring a game-winning goal at Maple Leaf Gardens and "selling" music to filmmaker Kevin Smith? Then, there were his three seconds of non-speaking airtime in a TV commercial. And don't forget when he appeared as a fighting, unhoused man in a hip-hop video.

With several books in print, Andrew has demonstrated talents across multiple genres, including heartwarming and hilarious nonfiction, dystopian soft sci-fi, and a mind-bending psychological thriller.

Andrew writes, creates, eats snacks, blogs, toils over his next novel, creates videos, enjoys golf, science, EQUALITY, the Oxford comma, and sometimes lets his love of attention override common sense. You can find evidence of this pretty much anywhere you can find Andrew.