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Battle for Grace - A Memoir of Pain, Redemption and Impossible Love (Paperback)
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Battle for Grace - A Memoir of Pain, Redemption and Impossible Love (Paperback)
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Loot Price R377
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Battle for Grace is about a seven-year-old girl who sees Funny Girl
and has a dream. To act, to dance and to sing. It's also about how
she becomes a woman whose life is virtually destroyed by a
crippling mystery illness and how she fights the institutions that
failed her. A woman who has lived an almost impossible love story
that began before her illness. Somehow she and the man who is her
reason for living, her caregiver and her partner in life have
managed to stick together for more than thirty difficult years.
Battle for Grace tells how she reinvents herself and turns tragedy
into triumph for millions of women worldwide. At the same time, she
transforms her life into something more beautiful and meaningful
than her original dreams of stardom. Ballerina Cynthia Toussaint's
promising career ended abruptly when a rehearsal injury that caused
excruciating pain remained undiagnosed for thirteen years. This
left her bedridden for a decade, unable to speak for five of those
years and often reduced to uncontrolled violence. Throughout all of
this, Toussaint's claims of pain were discounted by her HMO as
being all in her head-a frequent occurrence with women and their
doctors. Many people with her illness-sometimes called the Suicide
Disease-take their lives instead of contending with the pain.
Toussaint's story is about her refusal to be a victim. She not only
fought to survive, she has taken on the role of activist and
aggressively challenges the HMOs and pharmaceutical companies that
put profit ahead of patient care. Wheelchair bound, she founded a
nonprofit and entered the political arena as an advocate for women
in pain. Toussaint's memoir takes the reader on the roller coaster
life of a woman who sees every no as a future yes. Despite pain,
setbacks, abuse and betrayal, she holds her ground, finding in the
process the spotlight she'd always coveted. And a deeper meaning in
life than she ever expected.
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