'Dipped Into Oblivion' is the gripping, beautifully written story of what happened to Sacha Bonsor when she suffered a life-threatening brain haemorrhage at the age of only 20.
At the age of 20, Sacha Bonsor was due to take her first-year exams at university. She felt strange and assumed she was starting a bout of gastric flu. In fact, she was experiencing a life-threatening brain haemorrhage.
Fortunately she recovered, slowly regaining her strength, sight and balance. Yet her neurologist explained she was very likely to have another "bleed" which, this time, could leave her seriously disabled, or dead. This might happen the following year, or in fifty years' time. No one could be sure . . . It felt like having a time bomb ticking inside her head . . .
There was one scrap of hope. Four eminent neurosurgeons had the skill to operate, but they might make her condition worse. Only she could decide - to do nothing, or ask one of them for help . . . In the end she opted for surgery - with all the immense risks that might entail - knowing she could only blame herself if all went wrong.
A compulsive read, this extraordinary book is Sacha Bonsor's courageous story of facing death, and finding life . . . how she felt when her world first collapsed in pain and isolation, and the insights she gained after having been "dipped into oblivion". It acts as reminder that the world of the ill is only a footstep away from us all and illustrates the liberation that accompanies the pain involved in making decisions of a life-changing nature.
