Pushing The Limits

This is a powerful episode, its very raw and rather emotional but I have Aleisha Pienaar to guest who shares her story of her Dad who had a heart attack last year at the tender age of 53 and  who was, after being revived,  left fighting for his life in ICU. Aleisha had read my book "Relentless" and  had attended one of my speeches where I talked about my Mum and Dad's stories, It  was in her time of need that these stories became the catalyst  for her to fight hard for her Dad. The ICU team were convinced her Dad would not wake up from the coma and that if he did, after having been without oxygen for 46 minutes, that his life would be not worth living and that the  brain damage would be massive or he would be in a vegetative state. They were told they must take him off life support. Aleisha reached out and I encouraged her to fight, to be vigilant and not to give up when all others had.  A couple of days after they were told to take him off life support her father incredibly, woke up and although his rehab  w