ESPN personality, former Dancing with the Celebrities contestant, and Paralympics champion Victoria Arlen stocks her courageous and miraculous story of recovery after falling into a mysterious vegetative state at age eleven and exactly how she broke free of charge, overcame the odds, and never gave up hope.

When Victoria Arlen was eleven years of age, she contracted two rare illnesses simultaneously and fell into a mysterious vegetative state. For two years her brain was dark, but in the third calendar year, her brain broke free of charge, about Locked In: The Will to Survive as well as the Deal with to Live and she could think clearly and to hear and feel everything—but no one knew.

Her doctors wrote her off being a shed trigger, and Victoria remained a prisoner in her own body for pretty much 4 years. But every day, silently in her own brain, Victoria would pray to God, and she promised Him that if He gave her another chance, she would make every minute count, and change the globe for the better.

At 15, against all chances and medical predictions, Victoria woke up. Finally she was able to communicate through eye blinks, and steadily, she regained her capability to speak and consume and move her upper body, but she encountered the devastating actuality of paralysis from your waist down due to harm to her spine. Nevertheless, Victoria didn’t lose her strength or steadfast dedication, and two years later, she received a yellow metal medal for swimming in the London 2012 Paralympics. She went on to be one ESPN’s youngest on air-personalities and, after nearly ten years of paralysis, she learned to walk once again and even competed on Dance with the Superstars.

In Locked In, Victoria stocks her inspiring story—the pain, the struggle, the battle to live and thrive, & most importantly, the beliefs that carried her through. Her journey was not easy, but by believing in God’s curing power and forgiveness, she is living proof that, despite apparently insurmountable chances and challenges, the will to survive and deal with to live can be a push more powerful than our most severe deterrents.