Summary

Life, in Spite of Me

Extraordinary Hope After a Fatal Choice
Sam_I_Am
At 17, Kristen Anderson, having suffered the death of friends and a rape, attempted to commit suicide. She laid down on the railroad tracks, 33 freight-cars passed over her, it was too foggy to life flight her out, and she had lost 8 pints of blood, when loss of 5 is enough to kill. She was meant to be alive. In this book, her autobiography, she tells of the force she felt holding her down on the tracks so she wasn't sucked up into the train.She tells of her recovery, of waking up to realize her legs were gone, of challenges with some doctors who didn't believe she could recover and of adjusting to a new life in the freedom of faith. Founder of "Reaching You Ministries," her Web site is http://www.reachingyouministries.com/ .