Rebecca Fogg notes that there are innumerable responses to recovery, and she wisely avoids turning this story into a “how-to-survive-a-trauma” manual.  This is no misery memoir, one that concentrates on the vulnerability and suffering of the survivor.  She does describe the intense pain of the injury, however, in the objective, almost detached manner required of a scientist.  She has a relationship with her hand as an object of concentrated study.