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  <title><![CDATA[Curveball: When Life Throws You a Brain Tumor]]></title>
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  <default_description>Life seemed idyllic for thirty-two-year-old Liz Holzemer. Wife of Major League Baseball pitcher Mark Holzemer, Liz was enjoying a successful career as a journalist when an MRI revealed a baseball-size brain tumor she soon found out was called meningioma.   Told with clarity and unwavering humor, this book is an inspirational and informative account of one woman's battle for her life. It shows how she emerged from this frightening diagnosis and two brain surgeries retaining her remarkable spirit of survival and renewed sense of purpose and hope.   With practical information about meningioma and brain surgery, Curveball is a manual for people who face life-altering challenges and is also proof that one need not fight such battles alone.</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[I learned so much about what's &quot;normal&quot; after brain surgery.  I think this book would be helpful to anyone who's dealing with a brain tumor, either personally or as a caregiver.  It's hopeful...]]></body>
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