From NFL player Steve Gleason, a powerful, inspiring memoir of love, heartbreak, resilience, family, and remarkable triumph in the face of ALS 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.
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..
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.
Gleason lost all muscle function, he now uses Stephen Hawking-like technology to communicate, and breathes with the help of a ventilator.
Then came his heartbreaking diagnosis.
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.
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.
As Steve says, he is now ten years past his expiration date.
He was thirty-three years old.
Doctors gave him three years to live.
From NFL player Steve Gleason, a powerful, inspiring memoir of love, heartbreak, resilience, family, and remarkable triumph in the face of ALS 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
