Making Lue Proud

Als in the Energy Capital of the Word

von Aaron-Daniel Oneal

84 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Houston is a city built to solve impossible problems.It sends people to space. It refines the fuel that moves the world. It builds highways, hospitals, skyscrapers, and entire neighborhoods out of heat, concrete, stubbornness, and ambition.Then ALS walks in and begins taking things apart.Making Lou Proud: A Story of ALS in the Energy Capital of the World begins at an ALS walk in Houston, where one family arrives after garage sales, fundraising, kolaches, coffee, wheelchairs, keys, and weeks of preparation. They have raised two thousand dollars. Their extended family has come together. The atmosphere is hopeful, almost celebratory.But ALS is not one story.There is the ALS of the wealthy family that can remodel a house around a wheelchair. There is the ALS of the nursing home resident whose world has shrunk to a room. There is the ALS of the exhausted caregiver. The veteran. The spouse. The adult child. The patient who has excellent insurance and the patient wondering how anything will be paid for.Everyone says, We're all in this together.In a sense, they are.In another sense, they are living completely different diseases.Through one Houston family's experience-and through the many versions of ALS that exist across a sprawling, unequal, fiercely determined city-Making Lou Proud explores what happens when a disease famous for taking away control collides with people who refuse to stop building, adapting, laughing, arguing, fundraising, caregiving, and hoping.This is not a story about inspirational superheroes bravely defeating an unbeatable disease.It is a story about ordinary people doing the next necessary thing.And about a city looking ALS in the face and saying: You have no idea who you picked a fight with.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798174787575
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 16.09.2026
• Größe: 279 x 216 mm
• Verlag: Independently published