Still Standing
Description
This book was not meant to be written.
It began on an ordinary morning and unfolded into nine months of paralysis, silence, and machines. Rubina Khan - a nursing officer - became a patient. Within weeks, she could not move, speak, or breathe without help.
Diagnosed with Guillain-Barré Syndrome, a rare neurological condition, she entered a world where survival was measured in breath, in numbers, in moments that could turn without warning.
What followed was not just a medical journey, but a deeply human one - marked by fear, by faith, by moments of breaking, and by the quiet, relentless love of those who refused to let her go.
Still Standing is a memoir of survival in its truest form. Not the kind that looks strong from the outside, but the kind that happens in hospital rooms, in whispered prayers, in borrowed hope, and in the fragile space between giving up and holding on.
This is a story for anyone who has ever faced the edge of their own endurance - and for those who stayed beside them when they did.