Rusty's Story Book

After a two-decade career as a registered nurse, Carol Gino established herself as a writer of exceptional sensitivity and uncompromising honesty with her national bestseller, The Nurse's Story. In that book and now in Rusty's Story, she displays her extraordinary gift for reaching out to others and touching the common chord of humanity in all of us.

Barbara Russell - "Rusty" - was a normal if poor teenager until her freshman year of high school, when she had an epileptic seizure at a football game. From then on, misdiagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia as well as toxicity from over medication led to nightmarish periods in a state mental institution. Even after she began living with Carol, a nurse, who joined her fight for more humane treatment, nothing improved. With persistence and patience they were able to......well, let's not give away the ending, we can tell you it will be a book you will not want to put down. Enjoy!

It won the Epilepsy Foundation National Book Award