Saigon Siren

<p><span style=color: rgba(32 33 36 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>When a near-fatal stroke gate-crashes his family holiday in Vietnam Antonio must fight to stay alive. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(32 33 36 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>At the surprisingly young age of thirty-eight he thought he had lost everything. As he lay completely paralysed in an intensive care unit trapped in a foreign country with his distraught young family by his side his life completely turned upside down. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(32 33 36 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>After a harrowing rescue flight home to Melbourne Antonio realises his journey has only just begun. Challenged by his inability to sit stand walk or even talk he must confront the emotional anguish the highs and lows and the heartache and pain that accompany the gruelling rehabilitation process as he adjusts to his new normal. </span></p><p><br></p><p><em style=color: rgba(32 33 36 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Saigon Siren </em><span style=color: rgba(32 33 36 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>is an alarmingly honest and refreshingly humorous account of Antonio's ongoing battle with the dirty stroke demon Vaughn as he came to call it. He details his meandering road to recovery with endearing intimacy and amusing anecdotes-</span><em style=color: rgba(32 33 36 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>the kinds of stories you never hear. </em><span style=color: rgba(32 33 36 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Unfolding into a delicate and uplifting quest for self-discovery Antonio shares the healing power of creativity love and peace as he stumbles through the seemingly countless obstacles his new disability presents. </span></p><p><br></p>