108 Days: A True Story

A Fight for Life in Memorial Hermann Hospital-Texas Medical Center

By: Lisa Lindell

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

"This book is really riveting and I found myself grimacing, denying, experiencing shock and awe, nodding and finally understanding so much about her saga and attempts to protect her dying husband from one medical error after another. If you want a good read, pick up 108 Days." - Toni Brayer, MD.

A patient’s true story. One woman’s 108-day fight inside Memorial Hermann Hospital — Texas Medical Center.
When an explosive electrical accident leaves Curtis with severe burns covering 35% of his body, his wife Lisa takes up position at his bedside and refuses to leave. What she witnesses over the next 108 days — missed diagnoses, hospital acquired infections, dropped orders, and a system that called every failure a complication — will cost both of them everything.
Lisa documented everything. She had to. Someone had to.
Read the story. Draw your own conclusions.

AI sucks

The story was very interesting. Another area of a medical center you don’t hear about. Battles of love, will, laws…. A little bit of everything for 108 days.
I’m exhausted.

Brutally honesy

Love and a persistent wife conquer all, unbelievably Curtis survived this horrific ordeal. I just shook my head every time something else bad happened... again. The way they were treated is disgusting.

Atrocious care

The story initially struck me as a distressed wife and mother navigating a tragic injury to her husband. The AI narration caused me to have my finger on the delete button more than once- so annoying- mispronounced words, emphasis on the wrong syllable, weird pauses in the middle of a sentence UGH!! However, the story kept me coming back and I’m glad I suffered through the awful narration because the story was gripping, enraging, enthralling and raw. The feeling of “I know he’s going to die” and then “I just know he’s going to live” is so human and relatable to anyone who has dealt with a life threatening illness or injury. The incompetence of the doctors and staff at the hospital would be unbelievable except her attention to detail, backs her take on events. I definitely felt her pain and frustration and feeling of the admins just pacifying her concerns but doing nothing to help. The gaslighting by Drs and Nurses that “they never said that, or the wife misunderstood” was infuriating. The fact that no one seemed to talk to each other and no one seemed to understand the plan of care for a gravely ill man makes me sick.
I would listen to her sequel 108 decisions, but sadly it has the same AI narration and I just can’t do it again.

Loyalty and Courage

I do not like AI narration. it does not flow naturally. Please give us human narrators!

Wow unbelievable, amazing resilience, a vast amount of knowledge

First thank you! This is a must read book for everyone. I see this same frustration across professional fields. These are people we should be able to trust in our most desperate times of need, Yet, ... prepare yourself, it's not easy and heart wrenching