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Five Minutes of Amazing (Hardcover)
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Five Minutes of Amazing (Hardcover)
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List price R588
Loot Price R528
Discovery Miles 5 280
You Save R60 (10%)
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This story poses a profound question - do we accept the hand that
fate deals us, or do we battle to make the most of the life we have
and help others in the process? Chris Graham, just 38 years old but
already facing the advanced stages of Alzheimer's disease, has
emphatically chosen the latter. Having lived through a troubled
childhood, Chris joined the British Army at a young age and found
that the life of a soldier provided him with a much-needed sense of
stability. However, his world was turned upside down when, at just
34 years of age, he was diagnosed with a form of early onset
dementia. This brutal disease had already claimed the life of his
father at 42, along with several other members of his family, and
tragically had already confined his brother to a nursing home at
the age of 43. In his brother's life, Chris could see a terrifying
window into his own near future. Chris, though, is an extraordinary
human being. Having been handed nothing less than a death sentence,
he decided overnight to stand up to this horrendous disease and do
something to leave his mark before it was too late. And so it was
that last year, Chris embarked on an awareness-raising 16,000-mile
solo cycle around North America, armed only with his bike, a sense
of humour, and some good old-fashioned British grit. Leaving his
ever-supportive wife Vicky and baby son Dexter at home, he took on
huge challenges - for instance, the fear that the ability to
discern left from right might leave him at any point while
navigating an entire continent - and made it home in time for
Christmas, determined to spending however long he has left pouring
his love and attention into his family life. Five Minutes of
Amazing is both the story of Chris' epic journey and of his fight
against the disease increasingly being recognised as the defining
disease of our generation. Inspiring and heart-rending in equal
measure, it's as important as it is moving, and it will touch
everyone who reads it.
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