"This book helps sufferers and care givers alike to make sense of their situation, to avoid the mistakes while copying the successful strategies of these very real people." -- Bob Rich, PhD, Cancer: A Personal Challenge

Dirk's latest book, You've Gotta Fight Back-Winning With Serious Illness, Injury or Disability, features thirteen in-depth profiles of other people's medical adventures that had life-altering affects for those involved: patients, their families, friends, and caregivers. Some lived on. Some died. All left a priceless legacy of lessons on how to make the most of the hand one is dealt.
 
While far from autobiographical, the book is buttressed by Eldredge's experience recuperating from eight major surgeries including two open-heart operations.

"Far from a mere theoretical discourse... it brims with life: real cases, real people, real triumphs over a variety of illnesses and the distress they cause. A treasure trove of celebrated stories of survival and passages from the memoirs of those who made it." -Sam Vaknin, PhD, author of Malignant Self Love