Fighting Fate Audiobook Libro.fm

Pursued by the beast of motor neurone disease groundbreaking scientist Justin Yerbury wrote this extraordinary memoir entirely with eye movements It is the sharpest possible lens on the value of life and hope
Justin Yerbury made a promise to his mother while she was dying of motor neurone disease MND that he would do everything he could to find a cure MND had already taken several members of Justins family and he learned that they carried a rare genetic form of the disease that gave them a fiftyfifty chance of inheritance
Desperate to help his loved ones Justin went to university to study science eventually becoming a professor of molecular biology at the University of Wollongong and one of the worlds leading experts on MND While in New York delivering a lecture on his groundbreaking research Justin felt his thumb stop working the beast that had lurked so long in the shadows had caught up with him
Now 99 per cent paralysed and able to move only his eyeballs Justin refuses to yield With eyetracking software he has written his extraordinary memoir to shine light on this terrible disease and to show that even in the bleakest of moments there is always a reason to keep fighting