Escaping Quicksand - Building a Productive Life While Living with Multiple Sclerosis

by David Horan

Overview

With an honesty that often startles and always engages, author David Horan provides an emotionally complex and compelling account of what it means to live with Progressive Multiple Sclerosis. His wonderful storytelling skills, honed during a twenty year career as a salesman, make his personal tale a riveting read for anyone interested in what it means to live with chronic pain and physical decline.

David's wife, Mary Horan, adds the Partner Perspective, which lends Escaping Quicksand the endearing tone of a witty, well-told love story.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013513990
Publisher:	Shop my Web, Inc.
Publication date:	11/01/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	14 MB
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About the Author

y the time he was 45, David Horan had the wife of his dreams, two lovely daughters, the job he always wanted, and, a disease working through his system so quietly that he never heard its voice inside of him until it brought him to his knees one day while he walked the beach in Rhode Island. When he sought professional advice to find out more about the negative force that caused him to lose his balance and muscle control, the doctors told him it must be stress. But each day he grabbed at the hand railings on his exercise machine to keep himself from falling, he knew it had to be something deeper, something much more debilitating. The medical community works on averages and David Horan did not fit the profile-- young adult, mostly female--- for what ailed him: Progressive Multiple Sclerosis.

Escaping Quicksand explores David's quest to face down his Progressive MS, which takes muscle control from him each day no matter what treatment or exercise routine he follows. He offers heartfelt advice on how to keep a positive spirit in the face of such a relentless "enemy" and a detailed accounting of his own experiences with a range of treatments, both traditional and holistic. Through it all he finds a way to remain a positive contributor to his family and his community. His book is a testament to his life philosophy: Make Hope a Habit.