Getting Over Jordyn

About this book

Dr. Bubba walked into that trauma room in "machine mode" -- pure left brain, no emotions, no name on the chart. It was the only way he knew how to survive a career spent staring down the worst moments of other people's lives.For decades, he was a good ER doctor. Then one day, a little girl he couldn't save broke something in him that thirty years of practiced detachment couldn't fix. What followed was a slow unraveling -- addiction, a lawsuit, the loss of everything he thought defined him -- and an unlikely path back to himself through the Talbott Recovery Center, the Twelve Steps, and a lot of hard, honest conversations with God.Getting Over Jordyn is one physician's unflinching account of what it costs to carry other people's trauma for a living, and what it takes to finally put it down. Structured in the classic AA storytelling format -- what I was like, what happened, what I'm like now -- this memoir moves between gut-punch honesty, dark humor, and hard-won spiritual insight, addressed in part as open letters to "the Bus Driver" (Dr. Bubba's name for God) and to the readers he hopes might find their own story somewhere inside his.This is not a polished redemption arc. It's a real one -- messy, funny, and true.For anyone who has ever needed to hear their own story told by someone else, and finally feel forgiven.