Novelist and poet Judy Goldman's inspiring account of the mishap that
left her husband paralyzed, how it tested their marriage, and their
struggle to regain their "normal" life.
When Judy Goldman's husband of almost four decades has a routine spinal
injection to alleviate back pain, he is instantly paralyzed from the
waist down--a phenomenon no doctor can explain or undo. She's forced to
take over, navigating the byzantine medical world they suddenly find
themselves in. Her husband is forced to give in. This is the starting
point for Together, which looks at the changes every couple faces--the
slow, ordinary ones brought about by time and the sudden, dramatic ones
that take us by surprise. Identities shift; roles switch. How do we
adjust? How do we let go of the if-onlys? Together is a deeply honest
story about the life we dream of and the life we make--an elegant and
empathetic meditation on what happens to love, over time and all at
once.