Locked In The Will to Survive and the Resolve to Live Victoria Arlen 9781501174629,1501174622

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1501174622
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1501174629
• Author:  Victoria Arlen (Author), Valentin Chmerkovskiy (Foreword)

ESPN personality and Paralympics champion Victoria Arlen shares her courageous and miraculous story of recovery after falling into a mysterious vegetative state at age eleven and how she broke free, overcoming the odds and never giving up hope, eventually living a full and inspiring life.

When Victoria Arlen was eleven years old, she contracted two rare diseases simultaneously and fell into a mysterious vegetative state. For two years her mind was dark, but in the third year, her mind broke free, and she was able to think clearly and to hear and feel everything—but no one knew.

When she was fifteen years old, against all odds and medical predictions, she was finally able to communicate through eye blinks, and she gradually regained her ability to speak and eat and move her upper body, but she faced the devastating reality of paralysis from the waist down because of damage to her spine. However, Victoria didn’t lose her strength or steadfast determination, and two years later, she won a gold medal for swimming at the London 2012 Paralympics.

In Locked In, Victoria shares her never-before-published story—the pain, the struggle, the fight to live and thrive, and most importantly, the faith that carried her through. Her journey was not easy, but by believing in God’s healing power and forgiveness, she is living proof that, despite seemingly insurmountable odds and challenges, the will to survive and resolve to live can be a force stronger than our worst deterrents.

Not many people get a second chance at life like Victoria has, and she made a promise to God that she would make every moment count.

Table of contents:

1 How Did I Get Here?: January 2009 1

2 It’s All In Your Head: April to July 2006 9

3 Hell: Early August 2006 21

4 Darkness: Late August 2006 to December 2008 39

5 Breaking Free: January 2009 45

6 Awake … and Back To Hell: September 2009 to November 2009 57

7 Blink of Hope: November 2009 to August 2010 73

8 The Spotlight of Success: August 2010 to September 2011 89

9 From Breaking Records To Near Defeat: June 2012 to September 2012 115

10 Splash!: September 2012 to June 2013 133

11 This Could Have Been Avoided: June 2013 147

12 Exhilaration And Defeat On The World Stage: August 2013 to September 2013 155

13 My Almost-Quarter-Life Crisis: September 2013 to April 2015 167

14 DA NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA (ESPN): March 2014 to December 2015 181

15 Back On My Feet-Literally: November 2015 to March 2016 197

16 The Promise 215

17 Victory Dance: September 18, 2017 229

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