From Press Release Materials
Butch Dias has gone through much adversity in his life. He battled “Parrot Fever,” the “Swine Flu,” double pneumonia, a blood clot in each lung, one in his leg, and internal bleeding.
The doctors wanted to have his family pull the plug 3-4 times, because his outlook looked dim.
But the Fairhaven native never gave up: “Never give up, never quit, & never give in,” he writes in his press materials.
Butch is now out of his wheelchair, his walker, his cane and off all oxygen. He is 100% healed. His road to recovery was one miracle after another.
During his recovery he started to write a journal. In his journal Butch noticed that some of his writing came out in poems. Each of his poems represents something that he went through on his way to recovery. Through adversity, Butch started writing and helping people go through tough times. Writing helped Butch heal and get stronger spiritually. As you read his book let his inspiration touch your life.
If it wasn’t for this time of adversity Butch may have never written. Sometimes going through tough times brings out the good in us.
“The only reason I write is to touch people’s lives,” writes Butch. “God sent people to me to touch my life. He sent people to pray for me, to share the gospel, to teach, to preach, to encourage, and to disciple me. God thought I was important enough to send special people my way. He sent people that cared, not the ones that threw me under the bus. God sent people with compassion and love. I share because I care and because people cared for me.
“My book, Inspiration for Tough Times, is a book of poems birthed through the struggle of being in a coma and almost dying. I never knew I had it in me, but the pressure of the trials brought it out.”
The book is available online at https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B07HML1279 and https://www.xlibris.com/Bookstore/BookDetail.aspx?BookId=SKU-001176596
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