The Long Road Back to Boston: Running Marathons With Leukemia【電子書籍】[ Phillip Fields Ph.D ]

＜p＞In December 2006, Dr. Phillip Fields completed the First Light Marathon in Mobile, AL in preparation for the 2008 Boston Marathon. He was fifty-nine years old. This would be his third qualification. One week later, he was gasping for air as he attempted to complete a three-mile run. The next six months he underwent numerous medical test. All were negative except one. He had an elevated white blood cell count. In January 2008, he was sitting in an oncologist's office at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX waiting for a second opinion. The news was not good. The oncologist told him that he had leukemia with a five-to-seven year life expectancy. The worse news was to give up running for fear of hemorrhaging from a ruptured spleen. You see, running is his passion, his "why". He initially followed the oncologist's advice, but then decided that if he only had five-to-seven year to live, he was going to spend that time doing what he lovesーrunning marathons. Consequently, in February 2．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る