Author: Kimberly Hoyt
Publisher: Kimberly Hoyt
ISBN: 1667168851
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 123
Book Description
This is My Story: Organ Transplant: What an Amazing Journey, is an interactive journal that allows you keep track of one of the most important life events you will experience—organ transplant, as an organ donor or organ recipient. It's so important to keep these moments documented so you can share them with family, friends, and teach others about your personal journey. This journal allows you to tell your own story, your personal journey through the transplant/donation process. The journal can be started at any point in your transplant/donation process, there are multiple sections including your personal information, contacts, specialists, medications, office visits, Know Your Numbers reference section, notes sections to document feelings, and thoughts. It includes a section for business cards, transplant pictures, pages of inspiration from the author, and education pieces related to organ transplant. As part of the easy-to-use format, each month consists of a two-page spread, making it more convenient for writing detailed information for each date, allowing you to record important dates, memories, and milestones. Your records will be organized and accurate. This interactive journal contains many references, resources, and contact information for any of your potential transplant and donor concerns that may arise. This book makes a great gift for the person in your life who is about take this transplant or organ donation journey. You are not alone, you are strong. Transplant recipients and donors are some of the strongest people I have ever met. This is a journey you will want to remember.
This Is My Story: Organ Transplant; What an Amazing Journey
Author: Kimberly Hoyt
Publisher: Kimberly Hoyt
ISBN: 1667168851
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 123
Book Description
This is My Story: Organ Transplant: What an Amazing Journey, is an interactive journal that allows you keep track of one of the most important life events you will experience—organ transplant, as an organ donor or organ recipient. It's so important to keep these moments documented so you can share them with family, friends, and teach others about your personal journey. This journal allows you to tell your own story, your personal journey through the transplant/donation process. The journal can be started at any point in your transplant/donation process, there are multiple sections including your personal information, contacts, specialists, medications, office visits, Know Your Numbers reference section, notes sections to document feelings, and thoughts. It includes a section for business cards, transplant pictures, pages of inspiration from the author, and education pieces related to organ transplant. As part of the easy-to-use format, each month consists of a two-page spread, making it more convenient for writing detailed information for each date, allowing you to record important dates, memories, and milestones. Your records will be organized and accurate. This interactive journal contains many references, resources, and contact information for any of your potential transplant and donor concerns that may arise. This book makes a great gift for the person in your life who is about take this transplant or organ donation journey. You are not alone, you are strong. Transplant recipients and donors are some of the strongest people I have ever met. This is a journey you will want to remember.
Publisher: Kimberly Hoyt
ISBN: 1667168851
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 123
Book Description
This is My Story: Organ Transplant: What an Amazing Journey, is an interactive journal that allows you keep track of one of the most important life events you will experience—organ transplant, as an organ donor or organ recipient. It's so important to keep these moments documented so you can share them with family, friends, and teach others about your personal journey. This journal allows you to tell your own story, your personal journey through the transplant/donation process. The journal can be started at any point in your transplant/donation process, there are multiple sections including your personal information, contacts, specialists, medications, office visits, Know Your Numbers reference section, notes sections to document feelings, and thoughts. It includes a section for business cards, transplant pictures, pages of inspiration from the author, and education pieces related to organ transplant. As part of the easy-to-use format, each month consists of a two-page spread, making it more convenient for writing detailed information for each date, allowing you to record important dates, memories, and milestones. Your records will be organized and accurate. This interactive journal contains many references, resources, and contact information for any of your potential transplant and donor concerns that may arise. This book makes a great gift for the person in your life who is about take this transplant or organ donation journey. You are not alone, you are strong. Transplant recipients and donors are some of the strongest people I have ever met. This is a journey you will want to remember.
my Story Gods Glory
Author: Phillip Hanks
Publisher: Phillip Hanks
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
Phillip Hanks’ life was made for a movie. Born and raised by a single mother on Chicago’s South Side, he survived school bullies and gang violence, was hit by a truck, dodged a bullet, and recovered from a shove into the deep end of a swimming pool—all while just trying to grow up and go to school. The death of his beloved mother spurred him to do more with his life and career, and his near-death experience on the operating table reacquainted him with the Holy Father and his power. Phillip credits his reignited faith and God’s intervention with his incredible survival and recovery from Stage 4 cancer and an unprecedented 5-organ transplant.
Publisher: Phillip Hanks
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
Phillip Hanks’ life was made for a movie. Born and raised by a single mother on Chicago’s South Side, he survived school bullies and gang violence, was hit by a truck, dodged a bullet, and recovered from a shove into the deep end of a swimming pool—all while just trying to grow up and go to school. The death of his beloved mother spurred him to do more with his life and career, and his near-death experience on the operating table reacquainted him with the Holy Father and his power. Phillip credits his reignited faith and God’s intervention with his incredible survival and recovery from Stage 4 cancer and an unprecedented 5-organ transplant.
Fatima’S Journey
Author: Fatima Baig
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1543434452
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
This book details Fatimas journey as a two-time liver transplant recipient. The book is also about how her health struggles affected her personally and how the youth who have grown up with chronic illnesses can have normal yet special lives and how their families cope and become their strength. She also writes about how families from very different ethnic backgrounds come close together and form a strong bond in the pain of their children and their common challenges. She discussed the medical mistakes, which become life-changing for so many, and how there should be more acknowledgment of them rather than putting a lid on them. Finally, Fatima talks about how she came to spread awareness about organ donation; shares her story through social media, media, and public speaking; and how she came to be a part of a community of transplant patients, donor families, and those with chronic illness who united together through diversity and helped each other during their struggles. This book details how her life changed after her second liver transplant and the medical mistakes that Fatima endured.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1543434452
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
This book details Fatimas journey as a two-time liver transplant recipient. The book is also about how her health struggles affected her personally and how the youth who have grown up with chronic illnesses can have normal yet special lives and how their families cope and become their strength. She also writes about how families from very different ethnic backgrounds come close together and form a strong bond in the pain of their children and their common challenges. She discussed the medical mistakes, which become life-changing for so many, and how there should be more acknowledgment of them rather than putting a lid on them. Finally, Fatima talks about how she came to spread awareness about organ donation; shares her story through social media, media, and public speaking; and how she came to be a part of a community of transplant patients, donor families, and those with chronic illness who united together through diversity and helped each other during their struggles. This book details how her life changed after her second liver transplant and the medical mistakes that Fatima endured.
Stories of the Heart
Author: Nancy Siemers
Publisher: Kirk House Publishers
ISBN: 9781886513143
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Publisher: Kirk House Publishers
ISBN: 9781886513143
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Journey of a Liver Transplant Recipient
Author: Christine Jowett
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1460267109
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
It is a reality that someone in Canada dies every three days waiting for an organ transplant; for some patients, they are lying in their hospital beds, waiting to be given a second chance at life. Some are fortunate to receive that organ or gift of life, yet for many, they don't survive because the organ they require is either not available or doesn't get there in time. Christine Jowett was only thirteen years old when she became jaundiced, fatigued, and endured bouts of right abdominal pain. Having lived with autoimmune hepatitis for twenty-six years, Christine's disease finally took its toll on her and she ended up in St. Mary's Hospital, where she works as a cardiology nurse. In order to save her life, she was then sent to Toronto General Hospital to wait for a liver transplant, yet, her situation continued to deteriorate as her kidneys were shutting down. Now at forty-one years old, a mother and a wife, it still remains a mystery as to why Christine developed chronic autoimmune hepatitis, a disease that for so long through her life she was able to manage with few medications. Life Goes On is a moving story of her life, which tells of her sickness, facing up to the possibility of losing her family, and the struggle to regain the normality of life after her operation. After the tragic death of an anonymous hero, Christine is given the ultimate gift of life, a healthy organ, on one very special day.
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1460267109
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
It is a reality that someone in Canada dies every three days waiting for an organ transplant; for some patients, they are lying in their hospital beds, waiting to be given a second chance at life. Some are fortunate to receive that organ or gift of life, yet for many, they don't survive because the organ they require is either not available or doesn't get there in time. Christine Jowett was only thirteen years old when she became jaundiced, fatigued, and endured bouts of right abdominal pain. Having lived with autoimmune hepatitis for twenty-six years, Christine's disease finally took its toll on her and she ended up in St. Mary's Hospital, where she works as a cardiology nurse. In order to save her life, she was then sent to Toronto General Hospital to wait for a liver transplant, yet, her situation continued to deteriorate as her kidneys were shutting down. Now at forty-one years old, a mother and a wife, it still remains a mystery as to why Christine developed chronic autoimmune hepatitis, a disease that for so long through her life she was able to manage with few medications. Life Goes On is a moving story of her life, which tells of her sickness, facing up to the possibility of losing her family, and the struggle to regain the normality of life after her operation. After the tragic death of an anonymous hero, Christine is given the ultimate gift of life, a healthy organ, on one very special day.
A Caregiver's Story
Author: Ann Brandt
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595448836
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
"One caregiver's chronicles of the journey she took with her husband, as they battled his brain tumor. Beautifully written."-Naomi Berkowitz, Executive Director, American Brain Tumor Association Just one year after battling a little-known illness called Guillain Barre, Ann Brandt faced another challenge when her husband was diagnosed with a rare, debilitating, and aggressive form of brain cancer. Lacking in resources or formal instruction, Brandt relied heavily on her faith and memories of how her husband cared for her during her illness to navigate them both through the difficult times ahead. In A Caregiver's Story, Brandt approaches the complexities of caregiving in a personal and empowering way that offers sound spiritual as well as practical advice to make caregiving more manageable. She includes invaluable, up-to-date information about: Working with doctors and getting a second opinion Choosing a treatment plan Maintaining your life and sanity while offering good care Finding support groups and conferences Dealing with emotional and financial issues Making a connection between prayer and healing Brandt offers a loving, encouraging environment to help steer you through difficult times and delivers much-needed support and comfort. For caregivers, family members, and friends alike, A Caregiver's Story provides the support you deserve.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595448836
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
"One caregiver's chronicles of the journey she took with her husband, as they battled his brain tumor. Beautifully written."-Naomi Berkowitz, Executive Director, American Brain Tumor Association Just one year after battling a little-known illness called Guillain Barre, Ann Brandt faced another challenge when her husband was diagnosed with a rare, debilitating, and aggressive form of brain cancer. Lacking in resources or formal instruction, Brandt relied heavily on her faith and memories of how her husband cared for her during her illness to navigate them both through the difficult times ahead. In A Caregiver's Story, Brandt approaches the complexities of caregiving in a personal and empowering way that offers sound spiritual as well as practical advice to make caregiving more manageable. She includes invaluable, up-to-date information about: Working with doctors and getting a second opinion Choosing a treatment plan Maintaining your life and sanity while offering good care Finding support groups and conferences Dealing with emotional and financial issues Making a connection between prayer and healing Brandt offers a loving, encouraging environment to help steer you through difficult times and delivers much-needed support and comfort. For caregivers, family members, and friends alike, A Caregiver's Story provides the support you deserve.
Heart of Iron
Author: Kyle Garlett
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1613740085
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Throughout his life, Kyle Garlett hated nothing more than losing, and he knew early on that four diagnoses of cancer could not match his spirit of competition. His appetite for victory and his love of life pushed him over his health hurdles—including a bone marrow transplant, hip replacement, and heart transplant—and into the greatest challenge of his life: the Ironman World Championship. Kyle tells his amazing life story with clear-headed optimism and a winning sense of humor, beginning with his first diagnosis of lymphoma as a teenager and continuing through years of chemotherapy that destroyed his joints and weakened his heart. Not just about his health crisis but also about forging a remarkable life around cancer and his career as a sportwriter, the amazing friends and family who supported him, and finding love. After five and half years on the organ transplant waiting list then being gifted with a new heart, Kyle embarks on a challenge of his own making: to compete in the Ironman Triathlon, in which he competed not once but twice. His miraculous recovery and athleticism are recounted, along with the story of how he became an Olympic torch bearer, a devoted Lymphoma & Leukemia Society spokesperson, a motivational speaker, and an author. Heart of Iron is an invaluable companion for those affected by cancer and a breathtaking memoir about one man's unstoppable spirit and success against all odds.
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1613740085
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Throughout his life, Kyle Garlett hated nothing more than losing, and he knew early on that four diagnoses of cancer could not match his spirit of competition. His appetite for victory and his love of life pushed him over his health hurdles—including a bone marrow transplant, hip replacement, and heart transplant—and into the greatest challenge of his life: the Ironman World Championship. Kyle tells his amazing life story with clear-headed optimism and a winning sense of humor, beginning with his first diagnosis of lymphoma as a teenager and continuing through years of chemotherapy that destroyed his joints and weakened his heart. Not just about his health crisis but also about forging a remarkable life around cancer and his career as a sportwriter, the amazing friends and family who supported him, and finding love. After five and half years on the organ transplant waiting list then being gifted with a new heart, Kyle embarks on a challenge of his own making: to compete in the Ironman Triathlon, in which he competed not once but twice. His miraculous recovery and athleticism are recounted, along with the story of how he became an Olympic torch bearer, a devoted Lymphoma & Leukemia Society spokesperson, a motivational speaker, and an author. Heart of Iron is an invaluable companion for those affected by cancer and a breathtaking memoir about one man's unstoppable spirit and success against all odds.
My Father's Amazing Journey of Faith
Author: Sang Sun Lee
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1039129714
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 109
Book Description
Sang Sun Lee was a refugee in South Korea during the Korean War. He fled North Korea, leaving behind his wife, children, and parents. During a narrow escape from death, he made a promise to God in exchange for his life. Lee was true to his promise for the rest of his life. From building churches to building a business, being a true servant of God guided all his decisions and actions. Lee eventually became a businessperson and went from poverty to wealth and back again as he gave generously, and sometimes naively, to those who asked him for help. He was instrumental in the planting of numerous churches over the years and supported pastors and missionaries unfailingly, often putting their needs ahead of those of his own family. Throughout this time, Lee’s steadfast faith in God carried him and his family through every challenge and setback. Later in life, Lee was interviewed of his experiences, and that was published in an eight-month weekly series in The Christian Times. His daughter, Dr. Stephanie Chung, gathered her father’s articles to share his story and honour his life.
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1039129714
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 109
Book Description
Sang Sun Lee was a refugee in South Korea during the Korean War. He fled North Korea, leaving behind his wife, children, and parents. During a narrow escape from death, he made a promise to God in exchange for his life. Lee was true to his promise for the rest of his life. From building churches to building a business, being a true servant of God guided all his decisions and actions. Lee eventually became a businessperson and went from poverty to wealth and back again as he gave generously, and sometimes naively, to those who asked him for help. He was instrumental in the planting of numerous churches over the years and supported pastors and missionaries unfailingly, often putting their needs ahead of those of his own family. Throughout this time, Lee’s steadfast faith in God carried him and his family through every challenge and setback. Later in life, Lee was interviewed of his experiences, and that was published in an eight-month weekly series in The Christian Times. His daughter, Dr. Stephanie Chung, gathered her father’s articles to share his story and honour his life.
Sick Girl
Author: Amy Silverstein
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 1555848761
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
This shockingly frank and irreverent memoir of a young woman’s life with a heart transplant “will inspire and choke you up with tears and laughter” (Larry King). At twenty-four, Amy Silverstein was your typical type-A law student: smart, driven, and highly competitive. With a full course load and a budding romance, it seemed nothing could slow her down. Until her heart began to fail. With a grace and force reminiscent of Lucy Grealy’s Autobiography of a Face or Susanna Kaysen’s Girl, Interrupted, Amy chronicles her medical saga from the first misdiagnosis to her astonishing and ongoing recovery. Her memoir is made all the more dramatic by the deliriously romantic bedside courtship with her future husband, and her uncompromising desire to become a mother. Distrustful of her doctors and insistent in her refusal to be the “grateful heart patient” she is expected to be, Amy presents a patient’s perspective that is truly eye-opening and even controversial. Amy’s shocking honesty and irreverent humor allow the reader to live her nightmare from the inside—an unforgettable experience that is both painfully disturbing and utterly compelling.
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 1555848761
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
This shockingly frank and irreverent memoir of a young woman’s life with a heart transplant “will inspire and choke you up with tears and laughter” (Larry King). At twenty-four, Amy Silverstein was your typical type-A law student: smart, driven, and highly competitive. With a full course load and a budding romance, it seemed nothing could slow her down. Until her heart began to fail. With a grace and force reminiscent of Lucy Grealy’s Autobiography of a Face or Susanna Kaysen’s Girl, Interrupted, Amy chronicles her medical saga from the first misdiagnosis to her astonishing and ongoing recovery. Her memoir is made all the more dramatic by the deliriously romantic bedside courtship with her future husband, and her uncompromising desire to become a mother. Distrustful of her doctors and insistent in her refusal to be the “grateful heart patient” she is expected to be, Amy presents a patient’s perspective that is truly eye-opening and even controversial. Amy’s shocking honesty and irreverent humor allow the reader to live her nightmare from the inside—an unforgettable experience that is both painfully disturbing and utterly compelling.
Bounce Back!
Author: Gladys Famoriyo
Publisher: GF Books LTD
ISBN: 099261953X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The fact is, life happens ... and when challenging situations strike they can leave devastation in their wake, not unlike the after-effects of a tsunami. But have you noticed how some people, in spite of everything, have the ability to bounce back from adverse events in their lives? Well, in spite of what you might have thought, they aren't superhuman with nerves of steel. They are people, just like you and me.You can be one of those people too!If you want to grow from your experiences to positively transform the course of your life, then this is the book for you. Bounce Back! aims to help you find meaning and purpose, two God-given things that can actually come out of such times of adversity. With them, you really can go on to make a positive impact in your world.The three parts of Bounce Back! support you in surviving, thriving and maximising your experiences, so as to achieve the following: Learn how flip your life situation on its head and handle life's unscripted moments. Discover how to get back in the saddle by embracing the 10 'Bounce Back' principles and mindsets. Understand how not to waste your pain by creating meaning and purpose for your life. Learn how to embark your very own 'Pay it Forward' project, where you proactively take action to help others around you. You will discover that life's traumas or adversity needn't destroy you. And with God's help, you can make something positive out of what seems negative. Your 'test' can become a 'testimony'. Your 'story' today can become tomorrow's inspiring 'history'. Your 'mess' can become your 'message' of hope to the world. Only one person can make this happen and that is YOU!
Publisher: GF Books LTD
ISBN: 099261953X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The fact is, life happens ... and when challenging situations strike they can leave devastation in their wake, not unlike the after-effects of a tsunami. But have you noticed how some people, in spite of everything, have the ability to bounce back from adverse events in their lives? Well, in spite of what you might have thought, they aren't superhuman with nerves of steel. They are people, just like you and me.You can be one of those people too!If you want to grow from your experiences to positively transform the course of your life, then this is the book for you. Bounce Back! aims to help you find meaning and purpose, two God-given things that can actually come out of such times of adversity. With them, you really can go on to make a positive impact in your world.The three parts of Bounce Back! support you in surviving, thriving and maximising your experiences, so as to achieve the following: Learn how flip your life situation on its head and handle life's unscripted moments. Discover how to get back in the saddle by embracing the 10 'Bounce Back' principles and mindsets. Understand how not to waste your pain by creating meaning and purpose for your life. Learn how to embark your very own 'Pay it Forward' project, where you proactively take action to help others around you. You will discover that life's traumas or adversity needn't destroy you. And with God's help, you can make something positive out of what seems negative. Your 'test' can become a 'testimony'. Your 'story' today can become tomorrow's inspiring 'history'. Your 'mess' can become your 'message' of hope to the world. Only one person can make this happen and that is YOU!