Life seemed idyllic for thirty-two-year-old Liz Holzemer. Wife of Major League Baseball pitcher Mark Holzemer, Liz was enjoying a successful career as a journalist when an MRI revealed a baseball-size brain tumor she soon found out was called meningioma. Told with clarity and unwavering humor, this book is an inspirational and informative account of one woman’s battle for her life. It shows how she emerged from this frightening diagnosis and two brain surgeries retaining her remarkable spirit of survival and renewed sense of purpose and hope. With practical information about meningioma and brain surgery, Curveball is a manual for people who face life-altering challenges and is also proof that one need not fight such battles alone.
Liz Holzemer, www.lizholzemer.com, is a freelance writer, author, and speaker. She is also the founder of the nonprofit, Meningioma Mommas, www.meningiomamommas.org, which provides a free and unique 24/7 online forum for patients, family members and caregivers and funds meningioma specific research.
Liz has been profiled on the Today Show, Discovery Health Channel and been featured in 5280, USA TODAY, Woman's World, and other print media. She is a past recipient of the Tim Gullikson Spirit Award and Woman's Day Annual 'Women Who Inspire Us" Award and continues to share her "second chance" story while increasing meningioma awareness.
Liz is the author of the award winning book, Curveball: When Life Throws You A Brain Tumor and a contributing author to Meningiomas: A Comprehensive Text (Elsevier Press, 2010). She donates a percentage of all sales to meningioma research.
Liz enjoys life in the Mile High State with her husband and their two miracle children while maintaining her sense of humor on a daily basis.
