Up the Down Escalator: Medicine, Motherhood, and Multiple Sclerosis

By Lisa Doggett

Book Overview

A memoir of triumph in the face of a terrifying diagnosis, Up the Down Escalator recounts Dr. Lisa Doggett's startling shift from doctor to patient, as she learns to live with multiple sclerosis while running a clinic for uninsured patients in central Austin.



Facing the prospect of a career-ending disability as she adjusts to life with multiple sclerosis, Dr. Lisa Doggett is forced to deal with a new level of uncertainty and vulnerability, and the everyday fear that something new will go wrong. Taking off her white coat--becoming a patient herself--she confronts unimaginable fears, copes with her limitations, and sidesteps her skepticism of alternative medicine to seek help from unlikely sources.



MS pushes Doggett--a perfectionist at heart--to embrace self-compassion. As a patient, she learns to advocate for herself to ensure on-time medication deliveries and satisfactory treatment plans; to navigate chronic dizziness, relapses, and parenting frustrations; and to push her physical limits as a runner to go farther than ever before.



This hopeful and uplifting book will encourage those living with chronic disease, and those supporting them, to power forward with courage and grace.

• Format: MP3 CD
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0CVKQPBRH
• ISBN13: 9798212921022
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: HighBridge Audio