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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.
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Raymond Bauer
reviewed The Gift That Heals on December 14, 2008
The Gift That Heals
I recently got a job in a lab that is part of our hospital's kidney/pancreas transplant program, and while I had always been interested in organ transplants, my job renewed the interest. When I saw this book featured in a magazine, I knew it was a must-read, because my job only involves a small part of the transplant process and this book presented the opportunity to learn about organ transplants from many other perspectives.
This book got its rating merely due to its length. I read Chicken Soup for the Soul books and they are often 2-3 times thicker than this was, and having been to the annual picnic for our recipients, those still waiting, and our program's whole staff, I could probably fill up a volume just as long as this one from the stories I heard there. While I enjoyed reading all the touching stories and a few even brought tears to my eyes, I was left wanting more, but with the HIPAA laws and the secrecy that shields recipients from learning about their donors and vice versa, I can understand that it may have been difficult to get the necessary permissions to print many of the stories that were left out. Plus, not one mention was made of the lab people and some of the others who work behind the scenes to keep the programs in action.
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