Added: Aug 30, 2011
From: AtGoogleTalks
Duration: 50:21
"Just Don't Fall: How I Grew Up, Conquered Illness, and Made It Down the Mountain" by josh Sundquist Sundquist was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer as a nine-year-old and soon thereafter lost his leg to the disease. His dad was an aspiring minister and his mother a very conservative Christian who home-schooled her children. This first-person memoir relates his and his family's struggle with the disease and his evolution into a young man who competed successfully in the 2006 Paralympics in Turin, Italy. Readers expecting an inspirational tale of faith, family, and determination in overcoming a devastating illness will not be disappointed. What will delight readers even more is the unexpected literary skill and absurdist humor employed by Sundquist to recount his journey. Particularly telling are his memories of the years when he was diagnosed and the period immediately after the amputation; his child's-eye view of the proceedings is both heart-wrenching and laugh-out-loud funny. It's those Sedaris-like observations—substituted for the overwrought seriousness that fuels many inspirational first-person accounts of adversity overcome—that make this a very special book.
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Rating: 5.0' max='5' min='1' numRaters='41' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#overall ( ratings) Views: 4909 Comments: 9
LilLauraTv Says:
Aug 31, 2011 - Amazing story and I sure hope I get to buy Josh's book. ;)
justinlui7 Says:
Oct 26, 2011 - I was half expecting the Amputee Rap to end the video
htimsww1 Says:
Nov 2, 2011 - Josh may I ask , Did i see you on the us mens amputee national team with the Haitian team ?
AmiiiYepp Says:
Jan 12, 2012 - Such an inspiration! :')
NotInABoxJohanna Says:
Jan 27, 2012 - Haha, lol, omg, the golf story xD
DriftingJohnny Says:
Mar 30, 2012 - 1mt1mt
pufixas Says:
Apr 19, 2012 - He will not reply to you... Because this is not his channel.
. . . . . . . because these video appear directly from youtube.com which we cannot control it.)
moother888 Says:
Aug 31, 2011 - cool story bro