Saving: A Doctor’s Struggle to Help His Children

Shane Neilson

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Why do we fall ill? How do we get better? 

When his two-year-old develops epilepsy, Shane Neilson, a doctor, struggles to obtain timely medical care for his son. Saving shares his family’s journey through the medical system, and also Shane’s own personal journey as a father who feels powerless when faced with his child’s illness. It entwines these stories with Shane’s personal history of mental illness as a child and his professional experience with disability. 

By exploring  the theme of family, Shane Neilson manages to show that, over time, it is possible to not only escape the wreckage of the past, but to celebrate living with disability in the present.

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“Shane Neilson is a brilliant writer and his work deserves to be better known. There hasn’t been such a poignant and harrowing memoir of fatherhood in Canada since Ian Brown’s The Boy in The Moon.” – Karen Connelly, author of The Change Room

Shane Neilson

Shane Neilson

SHANE NEILSON is a writer and a family physician. His previous books include Meniscus, Gunmetal Blue, and Complete Physical, which was shortlisted for the Trillium Poetry Award, and the short story collection Will. Neilson has published essays and reviews in many Canadian literary magazines and newspapers. He lives in Guelph, Ontario.

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“The words arise from the pages as only Shane can deliver them, with few pauses, without apology, and with swerving yet direct, clean prose that is simultaneously compassionate, funny, sad, and fierce.” — Diane R. Wiener, Wordgathering

 

“Neilson plays with the conventions of a memoir, blurring the distinction between imagined and real events amid ornate poetry and witty, sometimes darkly humorous references.” — E. Scherzinger, Literary Review of Canada 

 

49th Shelf Nonfiction You Need to Know – Featuring Saving

 

“Once you accept the rhythms of Neilson’s telling, it is a hell of a story.” – Chris Smith, Winnipeg Free Press

 

Dr. Shane Neilson interviewed by Jamie Tennant on GET LIT.

 

“Candidly engaging, emotionally poignant, impressively informative, and ultimately inspiring, “Saving: A Doctor’s Struggle to Help His Children” is an extraordinary memoir and one that will be of extraordinary interest to anyone facing the often daunting task of securing appropriate and adequate health care for their own families.” – Midwest Book Review

 

“Neilson was diagnosed as being on the autism spectrum in 2021. ‘This crystallized many of the previous experiences in my life,’ he says. ‘With this lens providing an explanation for so much, I began to push back against the stigma and ableism that prevented me from even having the vocabulary to identify and describe my experience.’” – An interview with Shane Neilson by Margaret Anne Fehr at Prairie Books Now