A lifetime of healthcare misadventures, told backwards: Read A Twinkle at the End: Rewinding My Life Through America’s Healthcare Maze now, before the author rewinds completely.
Most memoirs start with childhood and end with death. Author Alan O’Hashi does the opposite: He begins as an old guy on the verge of collapsing in the kitchen. He then works his way backward through Medicare mix-ups, acupuncture torture, and raisin-based arthritis remedies. Finally, Alan fades out as a zygote. Think about cradle-to-grave coverage in reverse.
The story begins with his healthcare in a Boulder, Colorado, senior cohousing community. Read about his acupuncture torture sessions. Discover the drunken raisin arthritis cure that nearly got him evicted from my condo for being too healthy and young.
Along the way, he recounts medical misadventures from my working life. These include a small-town hospital merger. There was also an emergency CPR rescue. From there, it’s a rewind through college scrapes, high school drama, and adolescent sex-ed horrors. There are also grade-school struggles with bad eyesight and worse teeth. Eventually, he vanishes as nothing more than a twinkle in his parents’ eyes.
Of course, there’s a paradox at the heart of all this. Healthcare providers want to keep us alive and well. To survive themselves, they depend on us being just sick enough to keep coming back. Cures don’t pay the bills, chronic conditions do.
According to Social Security, I’ve got about 10.4 years left on my warranty. Given my track record, He hopes to outlive the actuary. If you want to find out how his story unwinds before he does, grab the book now. Don’t wait until he’s a twinkle. There will be no book signings after that.
Order from Ingram iPage, ISBN: 9798218163495, Retail Price $17.99 USD.
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