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 | | ‘Anything but Frank’: A Stroke Survivor’s Resilient Recovery | | On April 28, 2020, Kenneth Kerns was working from home in his role as the senior director of research safety and occupational health at the University of Arizona. A Zoom meeting was scheduled for that morning; prior to the online gathering he took a bathroom break.
When he failed to emerge at the meeting’s start, his wife Karri knocked on the bathroom door. Kerns didn’t respond but his wife heard sounds from inside the bathroom that sounded like snoring. She tried to open the door but was unable to push it in.
Kerns had suffered a hemorrhagic stroke and collapsed on the bathroom floor, with his body weight jammed against the door. What happened next is the subject of Kerns’s deeply moving memoir, “Anything but Frank: A Journey of Healing, Patience, and Rediscovery.”
Kerns acknowledges this section of his book is based on recollections by his wife, that is, the section recounting his collapse and how he was rescued by firefighters and paramedics who removed the bathroom door with a crowbar. He lost consciousness during the stroke and remained unconscious for the next 10 days when he was in a medical coma after undergoing brain surgery.
The book’s title is based on a curious incident that transpired after he emerged from the coma. The male nurse assigned to remove his breathing tube kept calling him “Frank.” He was unable to speak and still woozy from his return to consciousness. Kerns began to experience anxiety over being called Frank, first questioning if he was able to remember his name, and then wondering in horror if he had died and was immediately reincarnated as another person named Frank.
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