Résultats pour "Schmidt" dans Professionnels et universitaires

The powerful and moving memoir by a scientist and mother of three of how she learned to live again after a sudden severe infection caused her to die but then revive with 'locked-in syndrome' - able only to blink an eye. At the age of 38, Rikke Schmidt Kjærgaard, a Danish scientist, wife and mother of three, is struck down by an acute bout of bacterial meningitis. She awakes from a coma in intensive care to find herself completely paralysed, unable to show she is conscious except by blinking her eye.

At the age of 38, Danish scientist Rikke Schmidt Kjærgaard is struck down by an acute bout of bacterial meningitis. Weeks later, she wakes from a coma in intensive care to find herself “locked in,” unable to show she is conscious except by blinking her eyes. Despite a mere 5 percent chance of survival, she makes a miraculous recovery and returns to the world - painfully learning how to breathe, move, eat, and speak again, even resume her work as a scientist.

Frederikke Antonie Schmidt har sat sig for at inspirere kvinder til at stå stærkt – i sko. Som hun siger: ’Man kan måle min egen usikkerhed på højden af mine hæle. Jo højere hæle desto mere usikker.’ Hun har derfor udviklet sko med hæle, som man faktisk kan holde ud at gå i. Her er historien om kvinden bag Roccamore, som insisterer på at bære lyserødt, at larme, og at gøre tingene på sin egen måde. En indsigtsfuld og morsom beretning om livet som kvindelig iværksætter.