I listened to this book, which was read by the authors, and enjoyed it very much. You know, when you hear someone has a fatal disease, you always wonder, why them? Well, after "reading" this, I have a bit of an idea why!
First off, Patrick was a HUGE smoker. He smoked right up until his death. His wife was also a smoker and they would fly in their airplane and smoke in the cockpit, which resulted in two near plane crashes because the smoke damaged the plane! Seriously. Makes you realize how lethal smoking is if it can do that kind of damage to an airplane.
And he was also just plain brutal to his body. As both a dancer and a football player in his youth, he damaged his body to great extremes. He had a "suck it up" mentality which I thought was interesting when he said, near the end of the book, that Swayze men (who live with this mentality) never live very long. The oldest living Swayze man he knew was his father, who died at 57 *which is the same age as Patrick was when he died this past summer.
Anyway, I enjoyed the book very much and even more so hearing it in their own voices. I would highly recommend it!
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