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Title: Kasey to the Rescue

Subtitle: The Remarkable Story of a Monkey and a Miracle

Author: Ellen Rogers

Narrator: Joyce Bean

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-17-10

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

A single mother of five, Ellen Rogers has endured her fair share of tragedy, having lost both her first husband and stepdaughter to cancer. But nothing could have prepared Rogers for the June 2005 car accident that left her son Ned - now 25 years old - a quadriplegic with a brain injury. The road to Ned's recovery was long and discouraging, but when Helping Hands: Monkey Helpers for the Disabled stepped in to provide him with a service animal to help him cope with his disabilities, things turned around. Kasey - an adorable, mischievous, fun-loving capuchin monkey - helped Ned and his family to see the world in a new way.

In this extraordinary memoir, Rogers paints a vivid portrait of a large and loving family and the challenges that they face together. She shares the low points (the phone call that changed her son's life), the high points (the monkey play that led to Ned's increased mobility), and the strangely in-between (bathing Kasey in the kitchen sink) with equal parts heart and humor. The story of an ordinary family thrust into extraordinary circumstances, this inspiring book proves that old adage: where there's life, there's hope.

Members Reviews:

Heartwarming, Funny, Sad, Tragic, Uplifting and Wonderful!

Ellen's first book, Kasey to the Rescue: The Remarkable Story of a Monkey and a Miracle, is one of the most inspiring and wonderful family memoirs ever written...and then some. Ellen openly and candidly allows us to be immersed in her family's 5 year journey that is life after yet another tragedy rocks her amazing family. She grabs us on page 1 retelling of the moment she received a life-altering phone call from a hospital in Arizona informing her that her 22 year old son, Ned, has been badly injured in a car crash and is likely to not survive the next several hours. Your stomach drops, as do your tears, right from the get-go. She brings us with her through the heartache of helplessly watching a loved one fight for every breath, work through fevers, infections, surgeries, months of hospital and rehab stays and finally the frightening reality of having to take her broken boy home to start the rest of his life as he now knows it - as a brain damaged quadriplegic. Along the way, the family is uplifted not only by Ned's will to live, but his incredible and unpredictable recovery as he regains the ability to communicate, move his hands and feet, and shows us that his mind is completely up to the challenge of getting his body back in the game. Her tales of her large and complicated family, including a trio of "barkie" dogs only become funnier and more interesting as they add a service monkey to the mix. The service monkey, Kasey, is the highlight of the story and becomes the friend that Ned needed to propel his recovery to new levels. Kasey is truly remarkable, as she figures out how to connect with Ned in ways that modern medicine and all the human interaction and care in the world could not. Their journey and their bond is one that could not be told any better than it is in this must read to believe book.

A lesson in humility and courage

This is a real story that grabs the readers' real emotions.

I am Ellen Rogers's niece. We are the same exact age. This book has given me a whole new perspective about my family, my own life, and that of Ned and Kasey's life.