2000, ISBN: 1577332415

Her Longest Marathon: A Runner's Race to Survive Life can change suddenly. A life-long athlete and runner, Joyce Lance, was out doing her morning run in preparation for an upcoming 20-m… Más…

Her Longest Marathon: A Runner's Race to Survive Life can change suddenly. A life-long athlete and runner, Joyce Lance, was out doing her morning run in preparation for an upcoming 20-mile marathon, and nearly lost her life after suddenly being hit by a car at 50 mph October 6, 2000, Joyce Lance, a fifty-two-year-old Houstonian, a transplant from the stark heartlands of Minnesota, raised on a pig farm and a survivor of past adversity, was about to face her greatest personal obstacle. At five am, only four miles into her twenty-mile training run, Joyce was hit, head-on, by a speeding car, sending her to the hard, wet, morning pavement, broken, bleeding, and barely alive. So begins her new passage into survival--and an arduous recovery fueled by love, support, and spirit. Her Longest Marathon is an investigational tale written by a medical doctor using hospital charts, police records, interviews, and letters to compose this account of a remarkable woman, assumed dead by an EMS fireman who thought she would make a good organ donor. Rich with inspiration, this book reveals the special courage of an extraoridinary personal reccovery, from the gory accident, to a trauma center's hours of resuscitation, numerous surgeries, and on to months of physical and mental rehabilitation as seen through the eyes of a son, family, friends, doctors, nurses, and the resiliently disciplined and unwavering faith of Joyce herself. Full of the complexity of human drama, Her Longest Marathon i biographies,biographies,individual sports,medical,memoirs,professionals and academics,running and jogging,specific groups,sports and outdoors,women Sports & Outdoors, Blue Dolphin Publishing, Incorporated<

ISBN: 1577332415

Hardcover, [EAN: 9781577332411], Blue Dolphin Publishing, Blue Dolphin Publishing, Book, [PU: Blue Dolphin Publishing], Blue Dolphin Publishing, 268083, Women, 67, Biography, 1025612, Sub… Más…

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