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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Gleason, Steve, 1977- author.     Subjects     Gleason, Steve, 1977-     Gleason, Steve, 1977- -- Health.     Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.     Football players -- United States -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Gleason, Steve, 1977- author.       by title:      A life impossible : ...         MARC Display

A life impossible : living with ALS : finding peace and wisdom within a fragile existence / Steve Gleason, with Jeff Duncan. by Gleason, Steve, 1977- author. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2024. Subjects Gleason, Steve, 1977-   Gleason, Steve, 1977- -- Health.   Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.   Football players -- United States -- Biography. ISBN:  9780593536810 (hardcover) : 0593536819 (hardcover) : Description:  288 pages ; 25 cm Edition:  First edition. Requests:  1 Summary:  "In 2011, three years after leaving the NFL, Steve Gleason was diagnosed with ALS, a terminal disease that takes away the ability to move, talk, and breathe. Doctors gave him three years to live. He was thirty-three years old. As Steve says, he is now ten years past his expiration date. His memoir is the chronicle of a remarkable life, one filled with optimism and joy, despite the trauma and pain and despair he has experienced. Writing using eye-tracking technology, Gleason covers his pre-ALS life through the highs and lows of his NFL career with the New Orleans Saints, where he made one of the most memorable plays in Saints history, leading to a victory in the first post-Katrina home game, uplifting the city, making him a hero, and reflected in a nine-foot bronze statue outside the Superdome. Then came his heartbreaking diagnosis. Gleason lost all muscle function, he now uses Stephen Hawking-like technology to communicate, and breathes with the help of a ventilator. This book captures Gleason and his wife Michel's unmatched resilience as they reinvent their lives, refuse to succumb to despair, and face his disease realistically and existentially. This unsparing portrait argues that a person's true strength does not reside solely in one's body but also in the ability to face unfathomable adversity and still be able to love and treasure life"-- Provided by publisher.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Adult New Books 616.839 Gleason G in Processing Add Copy to MyList Kalihi-Palama Public Library Adult Nonfiction 616.839 Gleason Gl Checked In Add Copy to MyList Lihue Public Library Acquisitions --- On Order   in Processing Add Copy to MyList Salt Lake-Moanalua Public Library Acquisitions --- On Order   in Processing Add Copy to MyList Waikiki-Kapahulu Public Library Acquisitions --- On Order   in Processing Add Copy to MyList

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