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The True Story Of How I Came Back From The Dead
Skyhorse Publishing
October 2009
On Sale: October 1, 2009
256 pages
ISBN: 1602397716
EAN: 9781602397712
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
“Not since Lance Armstrong has an American athlete been so
celebrated for dodging death and competing
again.”—Washington Post It was a horrific car crash. On the
way home from swim practice, eighteen-year old Brian Boyle’s
future changed in an instant when a dump truck plowed into
his Camaro. He was airlifted to a shock-trauma hospital. He
had lost sixty percent of his blood, his heart had moved
across his chest, and his organs and pelvis were pulverized.
He was placed in a medically-induced coma. When Brian
finally emerged from the coma two months later, he had no
memory of the accident. He could see and hear, but not move
or talk. Unable to communicate to his doctors, nurses, or
frantic parents, he heard words like “vegetable” and
“nursing home.” If he lived, doctors predicted he might not
be able to walk again, and certainly not swim. Then,
miraculously, Brian clawed his way back to the living. First
blinking his eyelids, then squeezing a hand, then smiling,
he gradually emerged from his locked-in state. The former
swimmer and bodybuilder had lost one hundred pounds. Iron
Heart is the first-person account of his ordeal and his
miraculous comeback. With enormous fortitude he learned to
walk, then run, and eventually, to swim. With his dream of
competing in the Ironman Triathlon spurring him on, Brian
defied all odds, and three-and-a-half years after his
accident, crossed the finish line in Kona, Hawaii. Brian’s
inspiring journey from coma to Kona is brought to life in
this memoir. 24 color illustrations.
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