Haloman: A Memoir of Survival Against All Medical Odds, Goodfried, Alan (Createspace, 2011)

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Haloman: A Memoir of Survival Against All Medical Odds, Goodfried, Alan (Createspace, 2011) “Haloman: A Memoir of Survival Against All Medical Odds,” is Alan Goodfried’s story of waking up in hospital after eight days of being in a medically induced coma. He neither has memory of falling and breaking his neck nor of the risky and life threatening neck surgery that followed. No stranger to medical adversity, his discovery of what’s happened to him is the beginning of his struggle – against all medical odds – to insure that his life isn’t shattered by this traumatic injury.