{"product_id":"fighting-fate-1","title":"Fighting Fate","description":"\u003cp style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cu data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #212b36;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #212b36;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eJustin 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\"\u003eMND 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\"\u003eDesperate 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\"\u003eWhile 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\"\u003eNow 99 per cent paralysed and able to move only his eyeballs, Justin refuses to yield.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\"\u003eWith 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 a reason to keep fighting.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Justin Yerbury","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43185901699241,"sku":"9781922930347","price":9.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0424\/9518\/0962\/files\/fighting-fate_1_3bd7fec3-d9f4-4f4f-84cc-28c1a20e71da.webp?v=1692149398","url":"https:\/\/roseyravelstonbooks.com.au\/products\/fighting-fate-1","provider":"RoseyRavelston Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}