Iron Heart: The True Story of Survival and Comeback - Inspirational Memoir for Overcoming Adversity | Perfect for Book Clubs, Motivational Gifts & Personal Growth Journeys
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On the way home from swim practice, eighteen-year-old athlete 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 his acclaimed memoir.
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If you are looking for a great Christmas present for important friends and family in your life I recommend "Iron Heart"!!This inspiring story on Brian Boyle will certainly motivate them and encourage them to get a move on in their lives and accomplish anything they set out to do - 'anything is possible' - will become something they can believe after reading this moving account. 'Anything is possible' is also the motto of the Ironman Kona Triathlon and that is what he accomplished. What is extraordinary is that Brian should not have survived a horrific car crash. He simply shouldn't have made it, but he did. He had amazing support from his family and physicians and therapists. And he had an amazing inner drive. He recovered and set out on a challenge to accomplish the ultimate endeavor in sport and he became an Ironman!I first read "Iron Heart" in January of 2011. I had done one triathlon in September 2010 and was pondering my New Year's Resolutions. I was questioning whether there was another, a second, triathlon in my future. So shopping on Amazon I was looking for inspiring sports stories, motivators and topics on Triathlon. This book kept coming up as a suggested title after I would do searches, so I ordered it and waited for its arrival in the mail.Throughout his book I found myself crying and smiling at the same time. As a mother I cried at the awfulness of the accident and what had happened to his body. There was no way that he should have recovered. I smiled because he did. But he did more. His journey was not easy, but he never stopped. His story never ceased to amaze me. I had to share this wonderful book. I lent my copy to my girlfriend (who now does triathlons with me) and she too found herself inspired. When she returned my copy, I read it again. His story reminds me that I can do whatever I set out to do, that 'anything is possible', and I met and exceeded my own goals I set last January.This wonderful book should be required reading for collegiate physical education majors, nursing majors and personal coaches. I personally am going to re-read it for the third time this month as we move into the New Year. His story will help me set my mind for my goals for 2012. His story is a spark that bursts through to successful triumph. His story will show you by example that indeed 'ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE'.
