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Clint Pearson
Clint Pearson holds a bachelor’s degree in
English literature from California State University, Bakersfield
(sigma cum laude) and an M.D. from the University of California,
San Diego. He completed his residency in family practice and is
a member of the American Academy of Family Physicians.
Clint is a practicing family physician, a former
rock climber, and a former long-distance runner who battles multiple
sclerosis on a daily basis. Fortunately, he has help from Ursula,
his lovely wife of twenty years, and the two have been blessed
with twins, Denali and Jasmine, now seven and a half years old.
Today they all reside amidst the beautiful Redwoods outside of
Crescent City, California.
Drawing upon his experience as a physician and as
a multiple sclerosis patient, Clint has spent over ten years writing
Falling.
At 18 years of age, Clint Pearson was a rock climber and local
track star, and despite his long hair and carefree dress, he was
maniacally driven. Even after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis
(MS), he continued to climb mountains and take risks, unmindful
of the dangers. He shunned commitment and saw women as trophies,
that is, until he met Ursula. A South African of East Indian descent,
Ursula had grown up under the shroud of apartheid and had nurtured
a healthy supply of caution in the process. At first she sought
to maintain her distance from the brash and disheveled American,
but after Clint and Ursula found themselves in a car, at night,
inside a redwood forest, nuptials were soon to follow. Their differences
were extreme but so too were their feelings for each other, and
as Clint plodded through medical school, becoming emotionally
entangled in the poignant dramas of his patients, the marriage
remained strong. Then during residency training, financial pressures
intensified, leisure time vanished, and Clint’s MS progressed
despite several medicines. On one occasion, MS medication even
precipitated a high fever, and Clint’s body had to be packed
in ice. The marriage ultimately survived both Clint’s declining
health and his residency, but the MS continued to progress, making
Clint’s mountain-climbing ambitions increasingly unrealistic.
Yet he remained an adventurer, a climber at heart. Would he push
ahead only to stumble and fall or could Ursula and his patients
somehow teach him to climb mountains of a different kind?
Publisher: Aberdeen Bay
ISBN-13: 978-1-60830-012-9
ISBN-10: 1-60830-012-9
Ursula Pearson
Ursula Pearson holds a bachelor’s degree in
liberal studies from California State University, Bakersfield
(cum laude) and is a graduate of M.L. Sultan Technikon in Durban,
South Africa. Now a citizen of the United States, she is the tireless
mother of twins, an advocate for the disabled, and an avid food
critic.
Writing as therapy
May 08, 2009 03:06 pm
While Clint Pearson was a medical school student, he felt compelled
to begin recording his life in writing.
“A lot of my motivation was to document what
I was going through with multiple sclerosis,” Clint said.
“The writing kind of developed a life of its own.”
Twenty years and many drafts later, Dr. Pearson
and his wife, Ursula Pearson, have published “Falling,”
a memoir of their experiences together.
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