Fighting fate [electronic resource]
Justin Yerbury2023
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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 Justin's family, and he learned that they
carried a rare genetic form of the disease that gave them a fifty-fifty 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 world's 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 eye-tracking 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 ...
Main title:
Fighting fate [electronic resource] / Justin Yerbury
Author:
Justin Yerbury, Author
Imprint:
South Melbourne, Vic. : Affirm Press, 2023
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (1 online resource)
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781922930781
Language:
English
BRN:
436448
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