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Transplant Books & Related References
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The following books have been selected as references for the transplant community. Over 90% of all income received by the TIGER Fund from these products goes directly to aid organ donor and transplant families.
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TIGER Fund Features
Notable books, publications and inspiration from transplant patients
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A Change of Heart, Claire Sylvia
After a heart and lung transplant operation, dancer Claire Sylvia discovered that new organs were not the only thing she inherited. Never having liked such foods as beer and chicken nuggets, she suddenly started craving them. After an extraordinary dream, she seeks out the family of her donor--a teenaged boy who died in a motorcycle accident--and learns that it is indeed possible for two souls to merge in one body. She wrote this autobiography, A Change of Heart in 1996, and has been on "60 Minutes." "Lifetime" did a one-hour special on her.
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Hope From My Heart - Ten Lessons For Life, Rich DeVos
Rich Devos, the cofounder of Amway and owner of NBA's Orlando Magic, offers 10 lessons for successful Christian living. After more than 70 years of life, Devos admits that he's "made my share of mistakes. But most of the time, by the grace of God, I have managed to succeed." Grace may have had a lot to do with it, but Devos also credits his unshakable faith in God and firm belief in hope. After numerous heart problems that cumulated with a heart transplant a few years back, Devos began to see the superpower of hope as well as the true meaning of success. (Here's a hint: It's not about how much money or power you glean.) |
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Coma Life, Richard S. Darling, D.D.S.
A very uplifting story for patients and caregivers of survival over hepatitis C, liver cancer, heart attack, diabetes and three liver transplants. Dr. Darling is giving 15% of each sale to the Tiger Fund, so please tell him you learned of Coma Life at the Tiger Fund. The remaining 85% is totally dedicated to the promotion of organ donation and hepatitis C research.
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Tiger's Eye: A Memoir, by Inga Clendinnen
Australian author Clendinnen is a specialist in ancient Mexican cultures, readers may remember her best for Reading the Holocaust. Here, she turns her historian's eye inward, to make sense of the year when, in her 50s, she was felled by acute liver disease and found that only by writing could she free herself at least psychologically and intellectually from the confines of her hospital bed. Yet Clendinnen does not burden us with a sentimental account of her near-death experience
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I'm Glad You're Not Dead : A Liver Transplant Story, 2nd edition
by Elizabeth Parr
The liver recipient/author of I'm Glad You're Not Dead, Elizabeth Parr, Ph.D. has been a professor of English at the University of St. Thomas, Houston, Texas, for many years. She is currently a medical writer for CBS Medscape/Health Watch. Often humorous, always informative, targeted at the patient and family who desperately need this information. The book was edited by medical personnel. The second edition has an extended glossary, further treatment of Hepatitis C, and more information about the distribution of organs. Anyone facing transplant or interested in the medical marvel will profit from reading this narrative
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