LEADER 00000nam 2200277 i 4500 005 20180302070922.0 008 180108s2017 nyua 000 0aeng d 020 9780999439418 020 9780999439401 040 INap|beng|drda|erda|dUtOrBLW 092 796.522092|bBES 100 1 Besecker, Rob,|eauthor. 245 10 Everest strong :|breaching new heights with chronic illness : an inspriational memoir /|cRob Besecker, foreword by Steven M. Derks. 264 1 New York :|bForever Strong Publishing ,|c2017 300 265 pages ;|billustrations ;|c23 cm. 336 text|2rdacontent 337 unmediated|2rdamedia 338 volume|2rdacarrier 520 From the time Rob Besecker was a little boy, he was strong. The youngest child in a dysfunctional family, he threw himself into sports at an early age--and found he excelled at them. Athletics became his world, and by his junior year, his mailbox was stuffed with scholarship offers from university football programs from across the US. And then his body started to unravel--and everything changed. First, Rob fractured his back, ending his college football career before it could even begin. Next, at twenty-six, he began to experience life-threatening heart issues. By twenty-nine, he had to be implanted with a defibrillator/pacemaker device. Then, when he began to experience aches and fatigue that even his faulty heart couldn't account for, he discovered he had rare form of muscular dystrophy. With each new health challenge, Rob was devastated--but not defeated. He had always been strong, and he refused to let his ailing body limit his existence. So he set out to see what he could do--and as he neared forty, he set his sights on the challenge of a lifetime: hiking to the base camp of Mount Everest, the tallest mountain in the world. 600 10 Besecker, Rob. 650 0 Mountaineering|zEverest, Mount (China and Nepal) 650 0 Muscular dystrophy|xPatients. 655 7 Autobiographies.|2lcgft 700 1 Derks, Steven M.,|eauthor of foreword.
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