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I'm Alive: Courage, Hope, and a Miracle
The personal account of a promising high school hockey player who survived brain surgery and months of rehabilitation, infections, and temporary paralysis
An aspiring hockey star at Minnesota’s elite Hill-Murray School, 15-year-old Duke Pieper faced a brain surgery with a five percent survival rate. In I’m Courage, Hope, and a Miracle , Duke recounts his personal and courageous war against the brain lesion that threatened his life and his fearless battle to restore normalcy to his life. Battling through months of paralysis, multiple surgeries, massive nerve damage, and more, Duke had to relearn how to breathe, swallow, walk, talk, and live again. This inspiring young man shares how his strength and adaptation to his disabilities inspired him to build a platform to assist others who have succumbed to monumental loss. I’m Alive is a heartwarming, wonderful acclaim to a young man who never gave up, and who has become an iconic inspiration to all who know him.
An aspiring hockey star at Minnesota’s elite Hill-Murray School, 15-year-old Duke Pieper faced a brain surgery with a five percent survival rate. In I’m Courage, Hope, and a Miracle , Duke recounts his personal and courageous war against the brain lesion that threatened his life and his fearless battle to restore normalcy to his life. Battling through months of paralysis, multiple surgeries, massive nerve damage, and more, Duke had to relearn how to breathe, swallow, walk, talk, and live again. This inspiring young man shares how his strength and adaptation to his disabilities inspired him to build a platform to assist others who have succumbed to monumental loss. I’m Alive is a heartwarming, wonderful acclaim to a young man who never gave up, and who has become an iconic inspiration to all who know him.
240 pages, Paperback
First published October 15, 2015
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October 26, 2015
Amazing read! Impossible to put down!
January 10, 2018
this book is one of my favorite books it is so amazing and it just hits you right in the heart to rea how this boy never gives up. And he shows a ton of courage.
December 12, 2023
Sobering story, amazing that he sat down to write this book. I wish him all of the best moving forward.
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