Heart Warriors: A Family Faces Congenital Heart Disease Book

TABLE OF CONTENTS – HEART WARRIORS

1 – In the Thick of It
2 – Blissful Ignorance
3 – My Death and Resurrection
4 -–Areas of Specialization
5 – A Baby’s Story
6 – Three Choices
7 – To Live or Die in LA
8 – What I Never Expected When I Was Expecting
9 – A Simple Plan
10 – Dear Random Stranger, Please Don’t Diagnose My Child
11– Catalyst
12 – Back So Soon?
13 – One Angry Mother
14 – Picking Up a Fourth Passenger in the Game of Life
15 – What are You Waiting For? . . . Living with Anticipatory Grief
16 – Informed Consent
17 – A Change of Plans
18 – Visiting Hours
19 – The House that Love Built
20 – Promises, Promises
21 – Gallows Humor at the Tower of Bablefish
22 – The Heartland
23 – Little Losses
24 – Never Better, or It’s Complicated
25 – Apples to Oranges, Cuts to Bruises
26 – A Mortal Coil
27 – Jenny McCarthy is Not the Anti-Christ and Oprah is not Our Fairy Godmother
28 – How to Change the World in Six Excruciatingly Difficult Steps
29 – Death in the Family
30 – Not My Life to Take
31 – William (Liam) James Adams, You’ve Got A Lot of Names
32 – We’re All In This Together
33 – Fighting An Invisible Disease
34 – All the World is a Stage, but Grief Has Five
35 – We Don’t Know What We Don’t Know
36 – Me and the Virgin Mary on a Tightrope
37 – Psychiatry, 5 Cents
38 – A Man on a Mission
39 – Paling around with Pandora
40 – And the Beat Goes On . . . For Now
41 – The Last Word, an Epilogue for my Ladies, or What to Expect when You’re Expecting the Worst

Heart Warrior’s Field Manual-TOC:

History Lay of the Land Glossary of Native Terms (or words Microsoft refuses to acknowledge)
Supplies for the Battlefield Safe Harbors Friends of the Mission Nationally How to Find Local Resources:
Words of Warning about the Internet Tactical Guide for Civilians on the Home front The Last Resort (Heart Transplant)
The Final Word About Raising a Heart Warrior

Acknowledgments