I Am a Runner by Maria Papalia-Meier & Pamela Ackerson - Book Tour + Giveaway
I am a Runner:
The Memoirs of a Sepsis Survivor
by Maria Papalia-Meier & Pamela Ackerson
Genre:
Inspirational Memoir
Inspirational Memoir
“You’ll never be able to run again.”
From running half marathons to being the sickest person in the hospital,
Maria Papalia-Meier fought the river of death, and won.
Maria Papalia-Meier fought the river of death, and won.
Life changing moments, amputations, and negative thoughts refused to keep
her down. With her rock-hard stubbornness, positive self-empowerment
and persistence, she grabbed hope and unflinching faith to face the
life handed to her. Her story offers an honest, tough-love approach
to defeating pre-determined opinions, and self-imposed limitations.
She refused to give up or give in.
her down. With her rock-hard stubbornness, positive self-empowerment
and persistence, she grabbed hope and unflinching faith to face the
life handed to her. Her story offers an honest, tough-love approach
to defeating pre-determined opinions, and self-imposed limitations.
She refused to give up or give in.
Maria Papalia-Meier is a runner. She has awoken stronger…better.
This is her story.
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Excerpt
I am a Runner, the
Memoirs of a Sepsis Survivor
by Maria
Papalia-Meier
What I have told,
and will continue to tell people…Never give up. Willpower, from the mind and
heart, is the whole shebang. It’s what’s been and what will be.
I went from being
the sickest person to running a half-marathon. I turned my back on the Angel of
Death. It wasn’t my time. I have fought the reaper, and fought the river of
death. I accepted the compelling and intimidating challenges that kept
pummeling me in the face.
I merely punched
back.
People are the
most complex living beings in our world. I was one of those people who always
exaggerated how bad I felt.
Never again. I
know and understand too much. Like an inexperienced boxer in the ring, I was
struck down and knocked out. But I wouldn’t let the beast keep me down. I
refused to succumb to my own wallowing tears of woe.
I was no longer
the same person I was before my surgeries. I wasn’t about to obsess over the
negative. Reality was a kicker.
I was being realistic.
Toes don’t grow
back.
I’ve accepted what
has happened. I didn’t want to, but honestly, was there another option? I came
to terms with what I had to do, and had every intention of controlling what I
could in my life.
Here are the
brutal facts:
I was in
excruciating pain, with what seemed like never-ending twists of random
setbacks. The beast tried to break me, make me bend in places I never thought
I’d go. I refused to die. I wouldn’t give in to the weakness of surrender.
I was repulsed by
my feebleness.
I shook my fist at
my mortality.
I was angry.
I was terrified.
I was happy to be
alive.
I was loved.
Because of all of
those and many more, because of who I was, it only made me stronger. It
fastened and deepened the conviction of survival in my heart.
I almost lost my
life. It would’ve been a pretty hefty price to pay for a neglected strep
infection.
Who knew such a
minor thing could become so fatal?
Maria Papalia-Meier
is a fighter. She may have been KO'd, and down for the count, but she
proved them wrong. I am a Runner is about surviving sepsis, a coma, and amputation.
Maria has a BBA with an emphasis in Human Resources, and has worked for Fed-Ex for
twenty years. As an athlete she has many accomplishments. Before her
battle with the river of death she'd competed and ran in multiple
5K’s. She was told she'd never run again. She proved the naysayers
wrong. Her athletic accomplishments include running in a 5K, and a 1/2 Marathon.
proved them wrong. I am a Runner is about surviving sepsis, a coma, and amputation.
Maria has a BBA with an emphasis in Human Resources, and has worked for Fed-Ex for
twenty years. As an athlete she has many accomplishments. Before her
battle with the river of death she'd competed and ran in multiple
5K’s. She was told she'd never run again. She proved the naysayers
wrong. Her athletic accomplishments include running in a 5K, and a 1/2 Marathon.
Wife, mother, author, and time traveling adventurer. Born and raised in
Newport, RI where history is a way of life, Pamela Ackerson
now lives on the Space Coast of Florida, a hop, skip, and jump from
Orlando, where imagination and fantasy abounds. With the love of
reading, she graduated to writing non-fiction, historical fiction,
time travel, and children's preschool/first reader books.
Newport, RI where history is a way of life, Pamela Ackerson
now lives on the Space Coast of Florida, a hop, skip, and jump from
Orlando, where imagination and fantasy abounds. With the love of
reading, she graduated to writing non-fiction, historical fiction,
time travel, and children's preschool/first reader books.
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1 Comments
This is such an inspiration. I'm glad she's talking about her story.
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