More Than Mountains - The Todd Huston Story

by Todd Huston

"Help me! Stop! Help me!" I screamed, swallowing and choking on lake water... Behind me, I could hear a gurgling noise as the engine grew increasingly louder. I felt a bump, then my legs being sucked under the water. I squeezed my eyes shut and fought to escape the death grip holding me. I could feel the boat propellers crawling up my legs as the surging waters tossed my body back and forth like a puppy chewing on a rag doll. The boat stopped. "Ahhh!" I wailed, thrashing about in the ever widening circle of blood staining the deep green waters of the lake. "My legs! My legs! My legs!" Todd Huston has guts! He knows first-hand what it takes to overcome a challenge. When his legs got caught in the propeller of a boat at the age of fourteen, his life radically changed. For the next seven years he fought to keep his right leg, but endless surgeries and persistent bone disease forced the decision to amputate. At age twenty-one, Todd lost his leg. He could have resigned himself to life in a wheelchair. Instead, he seized life by the throat and used his faith in God to help him overcome mountains - literal and figurative. Todd became a psychotherapist and clinical director of Nova Care's Amputee Resource Center in Southern California. He visited recent amputees in the hospital and taught health-care professionals about the psychology of amputation. In 1994, Todd took on the challenge of bringing a greater awareness about overcoming challenges to people across the nation. He went after a climbing record set by an able-bodied man, trying to climb the highest peak in each of the fifty United States in one hundred days or less. He did it in sixty-seven days, shattering the record by more than four weeks!More Than Mountains is the story of how he did it. It is also an inspirational message of courage and hope to others who wrestle with disabilities and obstacles of all kinds.

215 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 29, 2013

Reviews

[Cindy · Rating 3 out of 5]

An interesting story and inspiring.

[Katherine · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesante historia de esfuerzo y determinación. Cuando realmente quieres algo, poner tu vida y corazón hasta lograrlo