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    Determined to Win: Determined to Win, #1
    Determined to Win: Determined to Win, #1
    Determined to Win: Determined to Win, #1
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    Determined to Win: Determined to Win, #1

    By Jonathan Desaussure

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    Life sends a screaming curve ball right at Janice’s face, and she doesn’t know how to hit it. Her pressing situation, the need of a lung transplant within a specific time, challenges her, her fiancé, and their relationship to their limits.

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    PublisherJonathan Desaussure
    Release dateSep 22, 2016
    ISBN9781536575415
    Determined to Win: Determined to Win, #1
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    Jonathan Desaussure

    Jonathan had experience from multiple business disciplines before he became an author. Now that he is writing full time, he authors two blogs: The Write Perspective, a Facebook page for readers and writers to connect and learn about each other, and on Synergy Success Strategies, a self -help blog. When he's not blogging, he is focusing on a major writing projects. Speaking of his major projects, Jonathan has written five screenplays in collaboration with his writing partner, two of which have placed at the finalist level in major US screenplay competitions. His current project focus now is his book series  entitled, Determine to Win. The first book, named after the series, is out now, and rapidly gaining popularity.

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      Determined to Win - Jonathan Desaussure

      Determined to Win

      ––––––––

      Volume 1

      Life interrupted

      ––––––––

      By

      Jonathan Desaussure

      Copyright 2012

      Jonathan Desaussure

      Published By

      Jonathan Desaussure

      Distributed by Draft2Digital.com

      Dedication

      To my wife, whom I love very much, and who has taught me by her example that anything is possible, if you believe in yourself and persist through the difficulty until it happens.

      ––––––––

      Epigraph

      I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment, and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity.

      —-Gilda Radner

      Table of Contents

      Chapter One

      Chapter Two

      Chapter Three

      Chapter Four

      Chapter Five

      Chapter Six

      Chapter Seven

      Chapter Eight

      Chapter Nine

      Chapter Ten

      About the Author

      CHAPTER 1

      Dale Sanders lay on his couch in his living room clutching his cell phone in his hand, as two paramedics rushed through the front door of his house with a stretcher. Dale put his phone to his ear. Sounding as if he was holding back the urge to cough, he said,

      Janice, if something happens to me, I want you to tell my family about me. I’ll arrange for someone from the hospital to contact you and let you know something. I’m on the way there now, again. And don’t worry okay.

      Dale began coughing fiercely. He hung up and stuffed his cell phone into his pocket.

      Okay, sir, relax, we’re here to help, one of the paramedics said.

      Dale nodded his head in approval and continued to cough. Both paramedics picked him up from his couch and put him on the stretcher. Gavin the taller of the two paramedics, produced an oxygen mask and held it out toward Dale.

      Sir, put this over your face, breathe deeply, and relax.

      Dale took the mask from Gavin and placed it over his face, and then, the paramedics rushed him out the front door of his house.

      In hospital triage, Tammy, an ER nurse, dressed in all bright pink, was busy doing paperwork, checking supplies, and inspecting equipment. She heard Gavin scream from the ER lobby.

      Is anybody here? Somebody help us please!

      What is going on, Tammy thought. She dropped the papers on the table, stood completely still and listened some more. There was nothing, except a loud hissing noise, similar to the heavy breathing of Darth Vader’s respirator. Oh shit, she thought. She dropped everything and rushed out of the triage room to investigate.

      Tammy entered the emergency room lobby and found Chase and Gavin standing on opposite sides of Dale, who was lying on the stretcher clinching his stomach with both hands. Gavin looked down a Dale. His eyes grew as he noticed the changing expression on Dale’s face.

      Shit! That’s not a good sign, bro, he said to Chase.

      Chase looked down at Dale too. Dale began huffing, faster, and faster, until his huffing became gurgling.

      Somebody! Somebody, help us, now! screamed Chase.

      Dale sat up quickly, snatched his mask off his face, and leaned over the side of the stretcher toward Chase.

      Hey watch out! Gavin yelled, and then he hurried to Chase’s side of the stretcher, grabbed the back of Chase’s shirt collar, and yanked him away from the stretcher. Brown puke spewed out of Dale’s mouth and splattered all over the floor and the wall near where Chase was standing.

      Sorry, Dale said, and then he placed his oxygen mask back over his face and lay back on the stretcher. Gavin and Chase stared at the puke, and then at Dale, who was struggling to breathe and growing more restless by the minute.

      Dammit! Where the hell is a damn doctor when you need one? Chase said.

      Just as he jammed his hands onto his hips and turned around, there was Tammy about ten feet away. She walked right up to them and smiled.

      I’m Tammy, an emergency room nurse. I heard all the commotion in here. What’s the problem?

      Chase pointed as he talked.

      That’s Gavin, and I’m Chase.

      Tammy nodded at Gavin; then, she looked around the emergency room and noticed there wasn’t anyone at the admittance desk. She returned her attention to Chase.

      I guess no one was here to check you in. I’m sorry. How can I help you?

      We have a male, age thirty, who is having trouble breathing, as you can hear. He presents with a fever of 103 degrees Fahrenheit, chest pain, and occasional nausea. He’s also a post-op bilateral lung transplant patient, who is immunocompromised. We bought him here straight from his house, Chase said.

      What have you done to him so far? Tammy asked.

      We gave him an inhaled bronchodilator, and then we put him on three liters of oxygen, said Gavin. Now we’re here to turn him over to you.

      That’s it?

      Uh huh, Gavin answered, as he observed the seriousness in Tammy’s eyes.

      His condition is too complicated for us. This is definitely one for you guys to handle, Gavin added.

      Tammy watched Dale fidget on the stretcher. Then, she leaned over him for a closer look, but she couldn’t see Dale’s face clearly through the oxygen mask, plus he kept moving all over the place. She scratched her head as she continued staring at him.

      Sir. Oh sir, what’s your name? she asked.

      Dale forced himself to lie still a moment and look her in the face. She smiled as she looked back at him, and then her nursing instincts took over. Her attention shifted from his face to his hands. His fingertips were blue. Pulmonary problems, she thought. Her attention went back to his face. His blue lips caught her attention. She looked into his eyes again, and then it hit her. She opened her mouth to say something, but Dale beat her to it.

      Dale, Dale Sanders, he said.

      Yeah. Yes, I remember you now, she said warmly, and then she smiled at him and placed her hand on his shoulder.

      Dale’s wheezing increased, and his eyes grew bigger, and bigger. No sooner than she thought, what is

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