After the Cheering Stops: An NFL Wife's Story of Concussions, Loss, and the Faith That Saw Her Through [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

Feasel, Cyndy; Yorkey, Mike

Verlag: Nelson Books, an imprint of Thomas Nelson, Nashville, Tennessee, 2016

Beschreibung

As new condition dark brown boards with gold spine lettering contained in an as new condition photographic dust jacket. Includes Praise for After the Cheering Stops; Dedication; A Note to the Reader from Cyndy Feasel; Afterword by Daniel G. Amen, M.D.; Acknowledgments; Source Material; About the Authors; and Invite Cyndy Feasel To Speak at Your Church or Community Event. Illustrated with a section of black-and-white photographic plates. "If I'd only known that what I loved the most would end up killing me and taking away everything I loved, I would have never done it." - Grant Feasel, ten-year veteran of the National Football League. "Grant Feasel spent a decade as a lineman in the NFL, playing 117 games as a center and long snapper, mostly for the Seattle Seahawks. The skull-battering, jaw-shaking collisions he absorbed during those years changed him forever, destroying his marriage and fracturing his family. Grant died on July 15, 2012, at the age of fifty-two, the victim of alcohol abuse and a degenerative brain disease known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE. When Grant retired from the NFL, Cyndy Feasel watched the man she loved become a different person and stood powerless as alcohol and painkillers became Grant's medications for the trauma he experienced on the football field. Helmet-to-helmet collisions and the resulting concussions opend the door to CTE and transformed Grant from a sunny and loving man into a dark shadow of his former self. In this raw and emotional memoir, Cyndy describes in painful and excruciating detail what can happen to an NFL player and his family when the stadium empties and the lights go down. A tale of destruction wrought by a game millions love and a powerful warning for football moms everywhere, After the Cheering Stops is also the story of the hard-won hope found in God's presence when everything else falls apart." - from the inner front jacket flap. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 005080

Bibliografische Details

Titel: After the Cheering Stops: An NFL Wife's ...

Verlag: Nelson Books, an imprint of Thomas Nelson, Nashville, Tennessee

Erscheinungsdatum: 2016

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: As New

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New

Auflage: 1st Edition