I
am a Runner:
The
Memoirs of a Sepsis Survivor
by
Maria Papalia-Meier & Pamela Ackerson
Genre:
Inspirational Memoir
“You’ll
never be able to run again.”
From
running half marathons to being the sickest person in the hospital,
Maria Papalia-Meier fought the river of death, and won.
Life
changing moments, amputations, and negative thoughts refused to keep
her down. With her rock-hard stubbornness, positive self-empowerment
and persistence, she grabbed hope and unflinching faith to face the
life handed to her. Her story offers an honest, tough-love approach
to defeating pre-determined opinions, and self-imposed limitations.
She refused to give up or give in.
Maria
Papalia-Meier is a runner. She has awoken stronger...better.
This
is her story.
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Maria
Papalia-Meier
is a fighter. She may have been KO'd, and down for the count, but she
proved them wrong. I
am a Runner is
about surviving sepsis, a coma, and amputation. Maria has a BBA
with an emphasis in Human Resources, and has worked for Fed-Ex for
twenty years. As an athlete she has many accomplishments. Before her
battle with the river of death she'd competed and ran in multiple
5K’s. She was told she'd never run again. She proved the naysayers
wrong. Her athletic accomplishments include running in a 5K, and a
1/2 Marathon.
Wife,
mother, author, and time traveling adventurer. Born and raised in
Newport, RI where history is a way of life, Pamela
Ackerson
now lives on the Space Coast of Florida, a hop, skip, and jump from
Orlando, where imagination and fantasy abounds. With the love of
reading, she graduated to writing non-fiction, historical fiction,
time travel, and children's preschool/first reader books.
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Maria Papalia-Meier is a fighter. She may have
been KO'd, and down for the count, but she proved them wrong. I
am a Runner is about
surviving sepsis, a coma, and amputation.
Maria has a BBA
with an emphasis in Human Resources, and
has worked for Fed-Ex for twenty years.
As an athlete she has many accomplishments.
Before her battle with the river of death she'd competed and ran in
multiple 5K’s.
She was told she'd never run again. She proved
the naysayers wrong. Her athletic accomplishments include running in
a 5K, and a 1/2 Marathon.
I am a Runner - the
Memoirs of a Sepsis Survivor is
available in print and e-book.
- What inspired you to write this story?
I am hoping my story will help motivate others
to never give up. My journey was not easy but if you have an end goal
in mind, and live each day to reach that goal, you will succeed.
Nothing is impossible!
- Tell us about your new book.
It is a story of who I was, what I went through
after surviving sepsis, and who I became.
- What motivates you for a perfect running day?
Somedays when I don’t feel like running,
when it is cold and wet, I am reminded that I have been given the
gift to run again and every day I can is a blessing. When I think
back to the days when I was told I couldn’t, and now I can I feel
like if I don’t I am not using the blessing I was given. After a
run the feeling of accomplishment I have and the way it makes me feel
can’t be explained.
- What is your favorite thing about being a runner?
The peace it gives me, it relaxes me. I try and
block out all the things that stress me and look at the beauty that
surrounds me. I live in the moment and forget reality for a bit.
- Where do you get your inspiration?
I get my inspiration from my “cheerleaders”.
The people that have seen me go thru the struggles I have had with my
feet and being able to run again. When they tell me how strong I am.
I am also inspired when they tell me how I have helped inspire them,
- What is the most difficult thing you had to conquer?
The ups and downs are hard. Learning how to
deal with the setbacks and still motivate myself to move forward and
not give up. There were times when I had worked so hard and then I
would have a huge set back and I would want to quit. But in the back
of my mind I never wanted to be the girl who said “I remember when
I used to…” I wanted to be the girl who was still doing it,
- Pass on some words of wisdom, to those seeking help in situations like this.
Never give up. Nothing in life working for is
ever easy. No one is going to hold you by the hand and walk you
step-by-step, and tell you what you need to do. You need to do it on
your own, somethings will work, some things won’t but you have to
remind yourself everyday of what your goal is, and live each day
working towards reaching that goal. I would wake up each day and say
what steps I need to take today so I can work towards my goal to run
again. Not every step you take will be a big one, count the little
victories and have patience which by the way I don’t have so this
was a huge struggle for me. Be open minded, try things you never
thought you would try.
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