In this book, Patricia Scott shares her strategies, based on her experience as an occupational therapy researcher and academician that allowed her to live a successful and productive life. She describes how, in the face of two liver transplants, spinal cancer, a medically induced stroke, and complex autoimmune pneumonia, she earned a Ph.D. and became a celebrated teacher and an internationally recognized scholar. The book is inspirational for those interested in learning about how one woman can accomplish wonders. It is about how this one woman refused to give in to a barrage of unwelcomed and unanticipated life events. It is also a story full of lessons about how to face uncertainty and say in the face of all the hurdles: “I will not give up!” Finally, this book will show how to fight the tempting dependency on the health care system.