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There were darker nights. Phantom limb pain arrived like an echo of something too fierce to be simply memorialized. He could reach for a cup he no longer had and feel the phantom weight. Sometimes he would wake nodding with the image of the canyon’s tight walls pressing in. He treated these experiences like storms—weather to be borne. He met with therapists who taught him to use cognitive techniques to mitigate pain; he took medications when needed. He met other amputees and found in their stories a pragmatic tenderness: people who understood the daily recalculations of intimacy, of balance, of identity. index of 127 hours
: A simplified reading version for students is also hosted at the Internet Archive Critical Indexes ★★★★½ (4
The original memoir follows a chronological and thematic progression of the 127-hour ordeal: Chapter One: The most beautiful place on Earth Chapter Two: The accident Chapter Three: Three plans Chapter Four: Night and day Chapter Five: A sad message Chapter Six: Waiting Chapter Seven: 'Where’s Aron?' Chapter Eight: The raven Chapter Nine: 'It’s his truck' Chapter Ten: Escape Chapter Eleven: 127 Hours Epilogue Timeline of Events (Index of Experience) Sometimes he would wake nodding with the image