A Life Impossible
Author: Gleason, Steve
ISBN: 9780593863299
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 30 Apr 2024
Pages: 464
Format: Paperback / softback
b>From NFL player Steve Gleason, a powerful, inspiring memoir of love, heartbreak, resilience, family, and remarkable triumph in the face of ALSbr>br>"Gleason is a symbol of resilience, hope and optimism." -i>The New York Times . "/i>Steve Gleason has changed the world." -Roger Goodell, NFL Commissioner . "An extraordinary book...i>A Life Impossible/i> will change the way people cope, think, and live." -Mike Lupica, co-author with James Patterson ofi> 12 Months to Live/i>/b>br>br>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.br>br>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.br>br>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.
ISBN: 9780593863299
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 30 Apr 2024
Pages: 464
Format: Paperback / softback
b>From NFL player Steve Gleason, a powerful, inspiring memoir of love, heartbreak, resilience, family, and remarkable triumph in the face of ALSbr>br>"Gleason is a symbol of resilience, hope and optimism." -i>The New York Times . "/i>Steve Gleason has changed the world." -Roger Goodell, NFL Commissioner . "An extraordinary book...i>A Life Impossible/i> will change the way people cope, think, and live." -Mike Lupica, co-author with James Patterson ofi> 12 Months to Live/i>/b>br>br>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.br>br>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.br>br>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.
