Kate Says: "Reading Is Fun!"

Susannah Cahalan was only twenty four years old when she woke up alone in a hospital room, unable to move or speak, and had no memory of how she got there. From this point, she relies on hospital reports, her journal, her father's journal, and other people's memories (who were close to her) during this time, to reconstruct her journey through her 'brain being on fire' and 'her month of madness.'

Luckily for her, she gets an official diagnosis of 'anti-NMDA autoimmune encephalitis' and gets the proper treatment from a wonderful doctor that eventually brings her back to a 'normal' state.

However, even she acknowledges in this book, that there are others out there with this disease that don't ever get a proper diagnosis, so she's one of the lucky ones. I tend to agree and am grateful that she wrote this book to raise awareness, so others might not have to suffer so long in silence.