{"product_id":"not-dead-yet-book-phil-southerland-9781250006998","title":"Not Dead Yet","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart memoir, part sports adventure, \u003ci\u003eNot Dead Yet\u003c\/i\u003e tells the inspirational story of Phil Southerland''s battle with Type 1 diabetes and how from diagnosis to sheer determination, he beat all odds and turned his diagnosis and his passion for cycling into a platform.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e From leading a Race Across America to managing a world-class cycling program, Southerland''s journey on and off the bike has helped changed the way the world views diabetes.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e When Phil Southerland was seven-months-old, he lost ten pounds in a week, his body was limp and his breathing slowed to what his mother called a \"death rattle.\" Rushing him to the ER, she was informed that tiny Phil displayed the youngest case of diabetes on record in the world at that time.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Blindness, kidney failure and death were all predicted for him by age twenty-five. 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Today, Phil continues to lead Team Type 1 as CEO.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNot Dead Yet\u003c\/i\u003e is Phil''s powerful story: his account of his relationship with his mother, and how she struggled to keep him alive; growing up quickly in the New-Old South of the 1990s, learning at the tender age of 6 years old how to check his glucose and give himself injections; of how he fulfilled his dream of becoming a professional athlete using his team and the bike as a platform, inspiring thousands of individuals and families around the world who are battling diabetes to not just chase, but catch, their dreams.\u003c\/p\u003e fitness role models for people the world over.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Together, they took on some of the most challenging endurance events in the world, including winning the Race Across America--a grueling 3,000-mile endurance competition--twice. 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