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Taking Flight: Inspirational Stories of Lung Transplantation More Journeys

Author : Lung Recipients Around the World
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781426968747

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Taking Flight

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 873 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781553696841

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Lung transplant is a life-changing surgery that extends and enhances life due to organ donation. Recipients of lung transplant share their stories of success.

I Call My New Lung Tina

Author : Shirley E. Jewett
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781553952701

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No one ever wants to hear that they have a disease, especially one as fatal as severe pulmonary hypertension. This book takes readers through Shirley Jewett's experience, providing insight into the ways patients can take responsibility for their health and medical treatments. It is far more than a feel good book about one woman's journey to the other side of a death sentence. It is an instructional manual of survival. Click here to read about Taking Flight: Inspirational Stories In Lung Transplantation compiled by Joanne Schum Click here to read about The Lung Transplantation Handbook (Second Edition): A Guide For Patients by Karen A. Couture

New Mountains to Climb

Author : Jim Carns
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 153542141X

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New Mountains to Climb: a journey to lung transplant and beyond is the story of one man's experience with pulmonary fibrosis, from diagnosis to lung transplantation, and life afterward. Here are Jim's introductory comments: "Imagine being told you have a disease you have never heard of, a disease with no known cause, for which there is no known effective medical treatment and no cure. Your future has been instantly shortened to three to five years. I want to share with you my journey with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF)." Physicians, others diagnosed with IPF, and their caregivers have endorsed it as an uplifting, hopeful, and forward looking story.

Breathe

Author : Dan Murphy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1793246068

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On May 31, 2018, Dan Murphy received a call just after midnight that would irrevocably alter the course of his life forever.This is an extraordinary story told from the perspective of ten family members, and Dan himself. They tell an inspiring story of a family's experience with lung transplant. This book tells the full story, from the preparation and the planning, to the unforgettable night of the call to the hospital, to experiencing the joy and fear for a loved one's life, to facing frustrating and dangerous setbacks, and all the way through the aftermath and recovery.

Take a Breath

Author : Karen A. Kelly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1945812044

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STOP. BREATHE. Now feel the oxygen coming in and out of your lungs. It's simple, easy, something you do every day without even thinking about it. But what if one day you woke up and couldn't? Walking to your car felt like running a mile? What if your entire life depended on the decision of a stranger...choosing to be or not to be an organ donor? In this true story, Dr. Karen A. Kelly M.D. shares her husband's journey through a life-saving lung transplant. Learning about his courageous battle can help any patient or caregiver understand the extensive responsibilities required for a successful organ transplant. As a pediatrician, Dr. Kelly found herself in a different role as caretaker not as provider. Her experience highlights the vital importance of taking care of oneself in order to adequately care for a sick loved one. She also stresses the importance of stopping: to rest, to take a deep breath, to laugh, and to rejuvenate. The Kelly's story sheds light on the shocking realization that 120,000 people in the U. S. right now are waiting for an organ transplant and that twenty of those people will die every day waiting on the "list" for a stranger to decide to be a hero. To become an organ donor, please visit Donatelife.net.

The Lung Transplantation Handbook

Author : Karen Couture
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781552125045

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The Lung Transplantation Handbook (Second Edition), originally published under the title Things You Should Know About Lung Transplantation: Before, During and After has now been updated and expanded in this, the second edition.

Epilogue

Author : Jeffrey W. Gaver, DVM, MD, FACEP
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781480946736

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Epilogue By: Jeffrey W. Gaver, DVM, MD, FACEP A medical helicopter is not an uncommon sight for most of us. We see and hear them overhead often enough that we no longer glance up at them. We see them sitting off to the side at large events, their crews seemingly always vigilant despite the lack of activity. We see them in action on the evening news, taking off from or landing near the scene of an accident. Occasionally, we see one in action up close, hopefully as a spectator rather than someone in need of medical attention. We see these machines and the people who operate them, but we almost never get to hear their stories – until now. After 20 years and over 5,000 flights, flight physician Jeffrey W. Gaver, DVM, MD, FACEP has experienced the highs and the lows of the job more times than he can count. He has saved many lives and also watched as they've faded away despite the efforts of him and his team. Fly with him as he revisits the best and the worst days of his career as an elite flight physician in Wisconsin.

An Unknown Angel's Gift

Author : Cherie S. Blackwell
Publisher : Fulton Books, Inc.
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9798887310169

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As you read this couple's transplant journey story, I hope you get as much out of it as I did along the way--learning, crying, laughing, sharing, and ultimately becoming a stronger person as I witnessed the strength in my spouse as our whole lives were turned upside down by a debilitating disease. Whether you are family, friend, or stranger going through a similar situation, as you read this book, I hope my story--told from a spouse's perspective--gives you inspiration. And I hope you stay positive, dig deep, and rely on the support of others to get you through ultimately what will be a new lease on life you never thought was possible as you wait day after day for a life-saving transplant as we did. It's funny, simple, sharp, and to the point; and I thank you for taking the time to read it.

Breath Taking

Author : Michael J. Stephen
Publisher : Atlantic Monthly Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-19
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780802149336

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An expert in pulmonary medicine shares a wide-ranging exploration of the human lung: the organ that explains our origins and holds the keys to our future. We take an average of 7.5 million breaths a year and some 600 million in our lifetime, and what goes on in our body each time oxygen is taken in and carbon dioxide expelled is nothing short of miraculous. “Our lungs are the lynchpin between our bodies and the outside world,” writes pulmonologist Michael Stephen. And yet, we too often take our lungs for granted. In Breath Taking, Stephen sheds much-needed light on our extraordinary lungs. He relates the history of oxygen on Earth and the evolutionary origins of breathing, and explores the healing power of breath and its spiritual potential. Stephen interweaves his narrative with scientific history, such as the development of the lung transplant, and poignant human stories, including his own frantic attempts to engage his son’s lungs at birth. Despite great advances in science, our lungs are ever more threatened. Asthma is on the rise, increasing anxiety leaves us vulnerable to disease, and COVID-19 has revealed that vulnerability in historic ways. Breath Taking offers inspiration and hope, inspiration, and vital perspective to us all.

The Gift that Heals

Author : Reg Green
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781434350688

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The stories in this book are about life coming out of death. A police officer, left for dead in a hail of bullets, can golf and fish again; a woman, whose lungs were at one time so diseased that she was dependent on oxygen, has since climbed 5,000 feet to the summit of Half Dome in Yosemite National Park carrying a 25-pound backpack; a man who was fighting for his life went on to become an Olympic champion. On one side, they tell of transplanted human organs and tissue transforming lives and, on the other, the inspiring selflessness of the families who donated them at the bleakest moment of their lives. The Gift that Heals is published jointly by United Network for Organ Sharing (www.unos.org) and the Nicholas Green Foundation (www.nicholasgreen.org). It was written by Reg Green, the father of a seven-year-old California boy, Nicholas, who was shot in an attempted robbery while the family was on vacation in Italy. The story captured the imagination of the world when he and his wife, Maggie, donated their son's organs and corneas to seven Italians. United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) is the non-profit membership organization that administers the U.S. organ sharing system and focuses on increasing organ donation through technology, education and research. In 2001, UNOS created the National Donor Memorial (www.donormemorial.org) to celebrate and thank America's organ and tissue donors and their families. For information on registering to become an organ and tissue donor, please go to the Donate Life America website (www.donatelife.net) or call 800-355-7427.

Ask a Manager

Author : Alison Green
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780399181825

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From the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and New York’s work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to 200 difficult professional conversations—featuring all-new advice! There’s a reason Alison Green has been called “the Dear Abby of the work world.” Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they simply don’t know what to say. Thankfully, Green does—and in this incredibly helpful book, she tackles the tough discussions you may need to have during your career. You’ll learn what to say when • coworkers push their work on you—then take credit for it • you accidentally trash-talk someone in an email then hit “reply all” • you’re being micromanaged—or not being managed at all • you catch a colleague in a lie • your boss seems unhappy with your work • your cubemate’s loud speakerphone is making you homicidal • you got drunk at the holiday party Praise for Ask a Manager “A must-read for anyone who works . . . [Alison Green’s] advice boils down to the idea that you should be professional (even when others are not) and that communicating in a straightforward manner with candor and kindness will get you far, no matter where you work.”—Booklist (starred review) “The author’s friendly, warm, no-nonsense writing is a pleasure to read, and her advice can be widely applied to relationships in all areas of readers’ lives. Ideal for anyone new to the job market or new to management, or anyone hoping to improve their work experience.”—Library Journal (starred review) “I am a huge fan of Alison Green’s Ask a Manager column. This book is even better. It teaches us how to deal with many of the most vexing big and little problems in our workplaces—and to do so with grace, confidence, and a sense of humor.”—Robert Sutton, Stanford professor and author of The No Asshole Rule and The Asshole Survival Guide “Ask a Manager is the ultimate playbook for navigating the traditional workforce in a diplomatic but firm way.”—Erin Lowry, author of Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together

About Alice

Author : Calvin Trillin
Publisher : Random House
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006-12-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781400066155

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In Calvin Trillin’s antic tales of family life, she was portrayed as the wife who had “a weird predilection for limiting our family to three meals a day” and the mother who thought that if you didn’t go to every performance of your child’s school play, “the county would come and take the child.” Now, five years after her death, her husband offers this loving portrait of Alice Trillin off the page–his loving portrait of Alice Trillin off the page–an educator who was equally at home teaching at a university or a drug treatment center, a gifted writer, a stunningly beautiful and thoroughly engaged woman who, in the words of a friend, “managed to navigate the tricky waters between living a life you could be proud of and still delighting in the many things there are to take pleasure in.” Though it deals with devastating loss, About Alice is also a love story, chronicling a romance that began at a Manhattan party when Calvin Trillin desperately tried to impress a young woman who “seemed to glow.” “You have never again been as funny as you were that night,” Alice would say, twenty or thirty years later. “You mean I peaked in December of 1963?” “I’m afraid so.” But he never quit trying to impress her. In his writing, she was sometimes his subject and always his muse. The dedication of the first book he published after her death read, “I wrote this for Alice. Actually, I wrote everything for Alice.” In that spirit, Calvin Trillin has, with About Alice, created a gift to the wife he adored and to his readers.

Insomniac City

Author : Bill Hayes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-14
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781620404959

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Amazon's Best Biographies and Memoirs of the Year List A moving celebration of what Bill Hayes calls "the evanescent, the eavesdropped, the unexpected" of life in New York City, and an intimate glimpse of his relationship with the late Oliver Sacks. "A beautifully written once-in-a-lifetime book, about love, about life, soul, and the wonderful loving genius Oliver Sacks, and New York, and laughter and all of creation."--Anne Lamott Bill Hayes came to New York City in 2009 with a one-way ticket and only the vaguest idea of how he would get by. But, at forty-eight years old, having spent decades in San Francisco, he craved change. Grieving over the death of his partner, he quickly discovered the profound consolations of the city's incessant rhythms, the sight of the Empire State Building against the night sky, and New Yorkers themselves, kindred souls that Hayes, a lifelong insomniac, encountered on late-night strolls with his camera. And he unexpectedly fell in love again, with his friend and neighbor, the writer and neurologist Oliver Sacks, whose exuberance--"I don't so much fear death as I do wasting life," he tells Hayes early on--is captured in funny and touching vignettes throughout. What emerges is a portrait of Sacks at his most personal and endearing, from falling in love for the first time at age seventy-five to facing illness and death (Sacks died of cancer in August 2015). Insomniac City is both a meditation on grief and a celebration of life. Filled with Hayes's distinctive street photos of everyday New Yorkers, the book is a love song to the city and to all who have felt the particular magic and solace it offers.

Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States

Author : National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics,Policy and Global Affairs,Committee on Science, Technology, and Law,Committee on Identifying the Needs of the Forensic Sciences Community
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780309142397

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Scores of talented and dedicated people serve the forensic science community, performing vitally important work. However, they are often constrained by lack of adequate resources, sound policies, and national support. It is clear that change and advancements, both systematic and scientific, are needed in a number of forensic science disciplines to ensure the reliability of work, establish enforceable standards, and promote best practices with consistent application. Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States: A Path Forward provides a detailed plan for addressing these needs and suggests the creation of a new government entity, the National Institute of Forensic Science, to establish and enforce standards within the forensic science community. The benefits of improving and regulating the forensic science disciplines are clear: assisting law enforcement officials, enhancing homeland security, and reducing the risk of wrongful conviction and exoneration. Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States gives a full account of what is needed to advance the forensic science disciplines, including upgrading of systems and organizational structures, better training, widespread adoption of uniform and enforceable best practices, and mandatory certification and accreditation programs. While this book provides an essential call-to-action for congress and policy makers, it also serves as a vital tool for law enforcement agencies, criminal prosecutors and attorneys, and forensic science educators.