"I’m Alive: Courage, Hope and a Miracle" Duke was a hockey player at Shattuck St. Mary's and in 2008. He had a cavernous hemangioma and came close to death multiple times. During the first surgery he had a 5% chance to live and on another occasion was only hours away from dying . He also had multiple brain infections and the last one landed on his spinal cord paralyzing me from head to toe. From this point on he had to re-learn everything from walking to talking, eating to breathing.  He believes the true reason I made it though those nine months in the hospital was to help other people! He truly believes that with the things that he had to experience and had overcome in his recovery that it all was to share his story and help other people. So in his book along with telling his story on how he got through everything, he put 15 bullet points in the back pertaining to how he overcame those challenges and adversaries in his recovery. He made it real general though so anyone can relate to it no matter what the situation is or no matter what they are trying to overcome.

Duke started a Foundation "The Pieper Hope and Courage Foundation".  All the proceeds from the book go to the Foundation and the Foundation is looking to buy books for people who can not afford them or who are not in a position to buy one. His goal is then to go in to hospitals and hand his book out and talk with them about whatever it is that they are trying to overcome. 

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