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Knockout: What I Saw When My Heart Stopped A Memoir of Addiction, Trauma, and the Fight to Recover
Paperback
Biographies GeneralHealth GeneralAddiction & Recovery
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Dec 3 2025
Pages: 118
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.25 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
If you struggle with addiction, trauma, or the long road of recovery, this book gives you something most memoirs don't: a front-row seat to survival, resilience, and the real work of rebuilding when everything collapses at once.
At twenty-two, Matt E. Lucky fell in front of a moving metro train during a blackout and woke up paralyzed, his spine shattered, his lungs punctured, and his heart stopped for nearly five minutes.
Readers will walk away with:
- a raw, unfiltered understanding of blackout addiction-how it takes over, how it hides, and how it destroys
- a deeper awareness of trauma's impact on the mind-including the surreal, terrifying death-dreams experienced while clinically dead
- rare insight into life after a spinal cord injury-paralysis, surgery, fear, and the fight to regain every small function
- a real look inside rehabilitation centers-where people with catastrophic injuries still find ways to laugh, cope, and move forward
- the importance of family and human connection-how loved ones can become lifelines in the darkest moments
- a hopeful path for anyone battling addiction-with an honest reminder that recovery is possible, even after multiple setbacks
More than a memoir, Knockout becomes a mirror for every reader who has felt out of control, powerless, or broken. The story shows what survival really looks like-not as an inspirational cliché, but as a daily choice made through pain, fear, and determination.
If you want a book that will stay with you, challenge you, and remind you what the human spirit can endure, Knockout offers exactly that.
Because even when everything breaks, you can still rise.
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