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Title: Dings

Author: Lance Fogan

Narrator: Rebecca Roberts

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-17-15

Publisher: Lance Fogan Author Services

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Dings tells the story of a family's dramatic clinical and emotional journey as they try to understand why their third-grader is failing school. They assume that his problems stem from anxiety and stress because Dad is serving in the US military in Iraq. The child's blackouts are finally identified by a neurologist's evaluation, and the cause is epilepsy! The parents are devastated. Will Conner ever be able to live a normal life?

Members Reviews:

Exciting, informative

Dings, by Dr. Lance Fogan, is an exciting medical mystery story, and one which many parents have lived. As the solution to the mystery becomes clearer, Dr. Fogan describes, lucidly the process of neurological diagnosis. A child is having difficulties in school; his father is away, serving in Iraq. His teachers, even the school psychologist, reasonably but wrongly assume that the child's anxiety about his father is what is interfering with his school performance. In addition to being an expert teacher about neurological disease, and the structure and function of the brain, Dr. Fogan is a caring, empathic writer with much compassionate insight into the emotional struggles of both the child and his parents. I enormously enjoyed this book and strongly recommend it to parents, teachers, and doctors. Sheldon Wolf, MD

A Must Read!!!

I enjoyed 'Dings' very much! As a teacher I know that there are many students that I know little or nothing about. After reading this book I realize I need to be more aware of students personal lives and what handicaps they may have. Though I haven't personally dealt with students/family with epilepsy, I can still relate to the situations that arose from the disease and the compassion necessary to deal with it. I highly recommend this book to everyone. You will take from it the importance of understanding why people react the way they do, whether it's disease or environmentally driven.

A Place on your Bookshelf

I just finished reading DINGS (it's a quick and easy read) and wanted to waste no time in letting you know how thoroughly I enjoyed it. I would love to think of it as becoming a staple in the library of anyone who has a family member or close friend with epilepsy; on the bookshelf of every elementary and secondary school teacher; on the must-read list of anyone in medical school, to provide a Dr. O'Rourke as a role model for the physician they hope to become. And it should also be on the bucket list of all those retired and near-retirement physicians who have started to get burned out and forgotten how they used to read their patients' perceptions and concerns so well that they could empathize with them, and shed a tear with them as they introduced them to new directions in their journey through life.

Thank you very much Dr. Fogan, for caring so much for your patients and their loved ones that you took the time to write this little gem. Somehow, I think you see Dr. O'Rourke looking back at you every time you look in the mirror.

Ira Hinden, M.D.

Great Read!

I just finished reading "Dings" and thoroughly enjoyed it. Well written with great descriptions, it kept me interested from the very beginning. Best of all I learned some things about epilepsy I never knew.