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The Next 15 Minutes: Strength From the Top of the Mountain
by
Kim Kircher (Goodreads Author)
Kim Kircher's husband's illness wasn't something she could blow up as she had done countless times on the ski slopes during avalanche control. Instead, Kim faced the biggest double black diamond ski run of her life as she listened to the doctors put her husband on the transplant list while he fought bile duct cancer.
The Next 15 Minutes is Kim's high octane story of how she...more
The Next 15 Minutes is Kim's high octane story of how she...more
Paperback, 260 pages
Published
October 18th 2011
by Behler Publications
(first published September 1st 2011)
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Kim Kircher's life has always been a bit of a balancing act. As a member of the ski patrol, she always has to balance her own safety with her ability to keep other people alive and well. On top of this, Kim has diabetes, so keeping her activity and blood sugars balanced is sometimes very difficult. Kim managed to keep things running fairly smoothly until her husband John's health began to decline. He had a liver disease, and this soon put him in a critical state. John desperately needed a liver...more
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Kircher provides us with a beautiful memoir of her life, experiences, and the strength she used to get through it. Kircher’s story begins when the news of her husband’s liver condition called primary schlerosing cholangitis. So what is a devoted wife to do, but do whatever she can to save her husband, first by listening to his doctors and putting him on the donor’s list. Then she took her experiences and life among the ski slopes to survive and fight back. Kircher shows that we can take our own...more
Kim Kircher deftly draws parallels between her adventurous life as a ski-patroller and the year she spent navigating her husband's life-threatening liver cancer. She dealt with the long year of peril as they sought a liver donor by taking it in the same 15-minute increments that she used when dealing with life-threatening emergencies in the high country.
At Crystal Mountain ski resort, Kim was the queen of kick-ass: from throwing live bombs in an effort to start controlled avalanches, to rescuin...more
At Crystal Mountain ski resort, Kim was the queen of kick-ass: from throwing live bombs in an effort to start controlled avalanches, to rescuin...more
Kim Kircher is tough by definition. As a ski patroller, she had been in a lot of really tough situations before. She did things like set explosions to protect the slopes from avalanches. She helped people who were hurt without batting an eye. Through it all, she had her husband by her side as he also spent a lot of time managing and maintaining the slopes. Their world comes crumbling down when John is diagnosed with cancer.
Cancer is a horribly scary world. With as tough as Kim and John are, they...more
Cancer is a horribly scary world. With as tough as Kim and John are, they...more
I did not think I would like this book, having won it in a giveaway. It meshed two topics, being in a ski patrol and surviving liver cancer and a transplant, neither of which I had much of an interest in doing or reading about. But Kircher writes well, and her theme of living through the next 15 minutes resonated with me. She had a ski story that meshed with every up and down in her husband's medical journey, and she showed how a person can learn lessons in one part of their life to apply to oth...more
My book is now available in stores. The Next 15 Minutes: Strength from the Top of the Mountain tells how I used my life on the slopes as a ski patroller to help me get through my husband's scary diagnosis. With a Foreward by Professional Skier Ingrid Backstrom and full of fast paced action, my memoir gives a rare glimpse into the ski industry. Rate it and let me know what you think.
Moving memoir out of Washington State, my home state. A story about marriage, love and sickness ... and skiing! The author Kim Kircher writes about her life as ski patroller as well as caregiver to her husband as he battles liver cancer and they wait for an organ donor. Insightful & uplifting.
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Kim Kircher has logged over 600 hours of explosives control, earning not only her avalanche blaster's card, but also a heli-blaster endorsement, allowing her to fly over the slopes in a helicopter and drop bombs from the open cockpit, while uttering the fabulously thrilling words "bombs away" into the mic. Her articles have appeared in Powder Online Magazine, Ski Patrol Magazine and The Ski Journa...more
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