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Up and Running

Now available in trade paperback the gripping story of a young boy's battle with a life-threatening illness and how a community fought to save him.

While out with his family the night of July 3 1997 6-year-old Andrew Bateson feels suddenly feverish. By the next morning he has developed red marks on his torso. Although they do not know it Andrew has bacterial meningitis--one of the fastest moving of all infections comparable to Ebola in the speed of its impact upon the body. After being rushed to the children's hospital Andrew soon develops all the signs of catastrophic septic shock and over the next three weeks as he lies in a coma the hospital fights an often minute-by-minute battle to keep him alive. Guided by a remarkable team of doctors the staff ultimately defeats the disease but with a cost: Andrew loses both his legs below the knees and there are questions whether he'll ever have use of his hands.

But UP AND RUNNING is a story about comebacks: It's about a family that at first loses faith--sometimes angrily so--then uses faith to "will" their child to live; about parents who toward the story's end return from an unraveling marriage to a solid one which they consecrate by having a new baby in midlife; and about a boy who wakes from a coma without legs and learns to live a normal life.

Throughout this is an engrossing tale told cinematically drawing the reader in from the first paragraph with a simple voice that is all the more dramatic for its understated tone.

  • Classification : Biography & Memoir
  • Pub Date : JAN 1, 2007
  • Imprint : Hodder Paperbacks
  • Page Extent : 304
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9781931722506
  • Price : INR 999
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