When We're Stars - eBook

WHEN WE'RE STARS

A True Story of Stroke, Survival, and What Waits on the Other Side

At 10:04am, Fred Thompson looked down at the Fitbit on his wrist and knew, in an instant, that something was terribly wrong.

What followed was a fight for survival — and the beginning of a journey that would take him somewhere far stranger than a hospital ward. In the depths of crisis, Fred experienced things that changed what he believes happens when we die. In the months that followed, he found his mind rewiring itself in ways he still doesn't fully understand.

When We're Stars is a raw and honest account of surviving a stroke — but it is also the story of a depression Fred carried quietly for years before, and never spoke about until now. It is a story about fear, about family, and about the strange grace that can follow catastrophe.

Told with unflinching honesty and unexpected moments of hope and humour, this is a memoir for anyone who has faced their own mortality — or loved someone who has.

Proceeds from this book support the Stroke Foundation.