Warrior: The Life and Lessons of a Man Who Beat Cancer for 57 Years - Softcover

Green, Brent

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0692366296 ISBN 13: 9780692366295

Publisher: Brent Green & Associates, Inc., 2018

Synopsis

When Luke endures cancer at age eight, he toughens up and battles a shape-shifting adversary for fifty-seven years. To fight back, he letters in track and football in high school; joins the Marines to become a battle-hardened lance corporal; achieves dual PhD degrees in exercise physiology and sports psychology; and cofounds the nation's first cardiac rehabilitation center. In tandem with his remarkable academic and career achievements, Luke demonstrates superhuman resilience through extreme athletic feats. His dangerous pursuits validate the life-sustaining power of a wellness mindset and positive risk-taking. With Jody, his equally courageous lover at his side, he leaps nine stories from a bridge into the Missouri River with nine feet of water depth; scuba dives underwater nonstop for over forty hours; free-falls over one mile during his first skydive; swims 375 miles from Kansas City to St. Louis in the Missouri River while fighting hypothermia; and scales the tallest skyscraper in Denver to support medical research. During these severe tests of willpower, he confronts four cancer recurrences with the courage and resolve of a health warrior able to do what it takes to survive. Luke’s severe trials of strength and resolve also reveal wellness lessons that can inspire and inform readers facing significant health challenges.

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From the Back Cover:

A warrior who fought for life
 
Perhaps a teacher cared enough about you to sound an alarm. Or a caring friend. Or maybe a medical professional urged you to drop a bad habit and live healthier. And then you changed.
 
For Brent Green that life-change agent was Mark Crooks, a doctoral student in exercise physiology. After just one run with him through a city park, Brent cast off a seven-year cigarette habit and reoriented his thinking to wellness.
 
In honor of Mark--who succumbed to cancer in 2010 after battling for 57 years with five occurrences--Brent wrote Warrior. This inspiring biographical novel celebrates a wellness mindset and shares life lessons bestowed by his friend.
 
"If you're going to meet your destiny in control, rather than be controlled by it, then you must commit to becoming a warrior."
 
After Luke, Warrior's protagonist, endures disfiguring cancer at age eight, he toughens up and battles the malevolent disease for the rest of his life. Extreme fitness feats and positive risk-taking become his core survival strategies.
 
He achieves PhD degrees in exercise physiology and sports psychology; cofounds one of the nation's first cardiac rehabilitation centers; and, as a scientist cum daredevil, demonstrates superhuman resilience with extreme feats--calling attention to the restorative power of positive risk taking.
 
With a steadfast lover at his side, his herculean exploits include jumping nine stories from a bridge into a river; scuba diving underwater nonstop for over forty hours; freefalling one mile during his first skydive; swimming 375 miles from Kansas City to St. Louis in the Missouri River while fighting hypothermia; and scaling the tallest skyscraper in Denver to support cancer research.
 
Warrior gives readers a survivor's guide to a more resilient future, especially those battling chronic diseases and aging. Within the pages of this biographical novel are lessons for anyone who is growing old and wants to fight back.  Lastly,Warrior presents an uplifting testimonial to the benefits of hospice care at the end of life.

About the Author:

Brent Green is an internationally recognized marketing communication strategist, creative director, business writer, speaker, trainer, social commentator, and consultant focusing on the intersection of aging and generational sociology. Author of two business books, including Marketing to Leading Edge Baby Boomers, he has received over fifty awards for creative and writing excellence. He has also published Noble Chaos, a historical novel about the tumultuous late sixties from the perspective of college students. WARRIOR, his sixth book, explores how those who are aging past 50, 60, and 70 can take greater control of their health and experience a more vigorous and engaged life, no matter what challenges may appear.

About this edition

• Publisher: Brent Green & Associates, Inc.
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0692366296
• ISBN 13: 9780692366295
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200