Tomorrow or No Tomorrow

By YoonOk Kim

Do you know what people do when they are very depressed and have NO hope?
This narrative nonfiction tells a story of my near-death from the subarachnoid brain hemorrhage and my despair after experiencing critical setbacks.
This story is to tell how I regain HOPE from the depression during healing!

• Language: English
• Publisher: YoonOk Kim
• Release date: Apr 13, 2011
• ISBN: 9781458020918

YoonOk Kim

YoonOk had her near-death from the brain aneurysm rupture. After more than one month of hospitalization in the ICU, she came home with many setbacks. When she felt she had NO hope and NO life, her backyard welcomed her to start new life~~~a new chapter. By working in the soil, planting seeds, and connecting to mother earth, she asked herself, "Who am I?". With her feet and her two hands, like roots, connecting with the warmth of the mother soil, she dug up the soil to plant the seeds of love and healing. In the same way she dug up in her garden, she dug up the story of her mother and her grandmother while the history of her birth land, Korea, lingers in the background. Dig up untold stories through her grandma's eyes~~~through the mother soil. She now realizes that her family story is a part of history--not separate from it. This was how she started writing her stories through the dark emotions and despair. This is to understand the art of healing and our roots. Through the rootedness from the plants, she now feels the soil. Her stories are from her heart and her soul through the mother earth~~~the soil.

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Tomorrow or No Tomorrow

By

YoonOk Kim, Ph.D.

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Copyright © 2011 by YoonOk Kim, Ph.D.

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Do you know what people do when they are very depressed and have NO hope?

On February 23, 2007 I woke up in the critical care unit (CCU) at Albany Medical Center I’d had a brain aneurysm rupture or a subarachnoid brain hemorrhage. After more than one month of hospitalization in both the CCU and the intensive care unit (ICU), I came home, but I was very weak. I could not walk properly, and I could not sit or stand for more than one hour. I was still overly sensitive to environmental stimuli: I could not tolerate too much physical motion directly around me, too many voices holding a conversation with me at the same time, or too much talking on my part. These symptoms had gradually gotten worse if it was hot, humid, or high altitude conditions.

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