William S Sutherland

At mid-life, Bill Sutherland was in his prime - happily married with two wonderful daughters, working for a great company thriving at his job, and an ex-jock who ran to keep fit. One day out for his usual run he mysteriously fell down-over and over again. His life changed forever. Athletic since childhood, he excelled at all sports and attended the University of Minnesota on a baseball scholarship, rare for a Canadian in the late sixties. He remained active right up to his illness running five...See more

At mid-life, Bill Sutherland was in his prime - happily married with two wonderful daughters, working for a great company thriving at his job, and an ex-jock who ran to keep fit. One day out for his usual run he mysteriously fell down-over and over again. His life changed forever. Athletic since childhood, he excelled at all sports and attended the University of Minnesota on a baseball scholarship, rare for a Canadian in the late sixties. He remained active right up to his illness running five marathons and countless 10K and 10-mile road races. A diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis, the first of many, stopped all that. He had lost his identity, and with it, his source of strength. His life was crumbling and pushed by guilt and fear, he found himself on the brink of suicide. It was there he started to push back. He went searching for hard to find answers and forged the difficult lessons of acceptance his way. It's your choice to use his answers as they are, modify them to make them work for you, or keep searching for yours. It matters not what you choose. What matters is that it work for you. This is Bill Sutherland's first book. See less