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Title: 20 Years and Still Coping and Prevailing Author: Thomas Bayuk Publisher: J & T Corp Form: Paperback Illustrated: --- Number of Pages: 118 ISBN: 0-9717614-1-8 Price: $19.95 + $3.50 (Shipping) = $23.45 Click Order Form to Order

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     Nearly twenty years ago, Thomas Bayuk was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. "I was not what one would have considered to be a humble man," he writes. "I had always been loud, proud, boisterous and extroverted."

     One day, though, on his way to work out at the gym, Bayuk was changed forever. Coping and Prevailing is his moving story of fear, anger, denial, and frustration but more importantly, it is his story of rising above these obstacles and learning to accept the diagnosis of MS.

     With an authentic blend of honesty, humor, wisdom, pathos, and a deep faith in God, Bayuk leads you on a journey of victorious self‑discovery. From the shock of diagnosis to the grace of acceptance, he invites you to see MS as a marathon, a challenge, as an opportunity to learn, to accept, and to overcome.

     “When playing poker, you have to play the hand you are dealt,” he writes. “The same is true of life. The real champions are the ones that win with mediocre hands. You can do this, you can beat this, but you have to make the choice to do so.”

EXCERPT:

     “The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses. It is won behind the lines, in the gym and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.”

– Muhammad Ali

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