ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dr. Daniel Herlihy
Dr. Daniel Herlihy's specialty is traumatic brain injuries and maintaining brain health. While being a patient himself, Dr. Herlihy understands the difficulties of navigating the medical system, which is why he offers services as a Patient Coach and Advocate.Dr. Herlihy graduated from the University of Dallas in Irving, Texas, with a pre-medical undergraduate degree.Following this, he moved to Denton, TX to study Graduate Microbiology. During this time his interest was the biome of the human gut and how it influences behavior in the same way an overgrowth of E. Coli can affect a human's health. This area of study is now central in general health therapies and the new field of fecal transplants.Dr. Herlihy went to Fort Worth to study at the prestigious Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine. After graduation, he did an internship at Tri-City Hospital and began his family practice in Mesquite.
The primary patient focus was Physical Medicine techniques in the reduction of pain and Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine.Years later, after a car accident left him disabled, he reconfigured his interest to study brain health strokes and traumatic brain injury and other brain diseases like Alzheimer's. He has been involved in multiple clinical trials on brain health at the Center for Brain Health and Future Search, both in Dallas.Dr. Herlihy is a born teacher. He mentored medical students from TCOM and resident doctors at Tri-City Hospital. Moreover, he continues to inform with public lectures concerning Brain Health and how to prevent Alzheimer's disease.
ABOUT THE CO-AUTHOR
Chewy
Chewy, the co-author, and Dr. Herlihy's best friend, is a proud, literate, and alpha, 21-pound, very hairy Cairn terrier.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Chewy: A Doctor's Tail
In today's world, medical procedures can be cookie-cutter. Doctors' prescriptions are based on generic diseases, not the individual patient. Singular treatments are what I hope to encourage. Trained dogs do this by molding themselves to their owners, providing help in ways that are quite wonderful. My hope for the reader is to understand the outstanding support a service dog can give.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Normal From Afar
Despite having two years of graduate-level study in microbiology, a medical degree, and practice in family medicine, it took me ten years to write this book.It started as a prescription from my neurologist to aid my traumatic brain injury. My car flew off an elevated highway with devastating consequences.I sustained four surgeries and chronic pain, but worse: A diagnosis of dementia (92% disabled both physically and mentally) and going into Alzheimer's disease. In brief, this book recounts the hero's journey of a man and his dog (both heroes) falling as far as possible and then struggling back to be neurotypical.
