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"This is your only option....It's not a good option, but you will die if we don't transplant right now." All I could do was cry and pray "Dear God! What has happened? Save this man! He is my soul, my life!" David was a successful, 6ft, 230 pound, 46 year old engineer that was never sick a day in his life. His career was soaring and he was on top of the world! Within one month, he was reduced to a 150-pound shell of a man being kept alive by a respirator. His mind was as sharp as ever.....his lungs were giving out. David was a strong Christian man who was going to be tested time and time again during his two-year battle with IPF-Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. This is his struggle with his faith, his health, his shattered dreams and his end of life choices. He was an inspiration to every nurse, doctor, surgeon, and lung transplant patient at the University of California San Francisco pulmonary family. His courage, determination, and selflessness will touch the very depths of your soul. "A truly inspiring story of courage and love...a testament to the power of Christian faith in the face of death."
There are over 1.5 million Asian Indians in the Americas, most of whom have transplanted the religious customs of their homeland. Transplanting Religious Traditions is a study of how individuals, families, and small groups transport and sustain their religious practices and how they eventually construct stable religious institutions suited to the American context. The book centers on the Indian community in Atlanta, Georgia from 1979 to 1988 but relates the study to America's East Indian population as a whole. Social scientists, religion scholars and students, as well as all members of the East Indian-American community, will find this a valuable study.
Turning a difficult situation into a positive experience takes courage, faith, perseverance, and strength. How we deal with adversity defines who we truly are as human beings. In New Life: Lessons in Faith and Courage, we meet people who have overcome obstacles and inspired others around them along the way. Organ transplant recipients face not only serious illnesses, but sometimes life-threatening situations. Yet those same recipients have turned their frightening experiences into unique and inspiring examples of courage and achievement. New Life is a collection of heartwarming and compelling stories that will encourage not only transplant candidates, recipients, and their families, but people who are facing any kind of adversity. Through uplifting accounts of human achievement, readers are left with a deep sense of admiration for the accomplishments and triumphs of the individuals profiled. These stories show us how to overcome the most difficult of circumstances and go on to lead active, generous, and in many cases, remarkable lives. "Each of the vignettes in this book is a jewel. I am sure the book will have a positive effect on organ donation and increase the public's acceptance of transplantation."-Thomas E. Starzl, M.D., professor of surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. "These are stories of incredible bravery. The overall message is enlightening and filled with hope. When our backs are against the wall, we human beings rise to the occasion and with the help of God, prevail."-Walter Ruzek, president of the Transplant Recipients International Organization, Long Island Chapter. "As a liver recipient, I love this book. Bob Violino deserves the highest accolades for his marvelous compilation of organ transplant stories. He puts faces on this lifesaving procedure. I feel certain the book will promote organ donation."-Larry Hagman, actor "This book will inspire not only transplant candidates and recipients, but anyone who is facing a health problem or other difficult challenge."-Dr. Robert Phillips, licensed psychologist and director of the Center for Coping, Hicksville, N.Y.
A journey of faith through illness and medical trauma, told with raw honesty and probably more detail than you may be comfortable with.
Enter the world of organ transplantation and develop a new understanding of processes and techniques for working effectively with patients in this increasing medical population. This multidisciplinary overview of organ transplantation contains chapters by major figures in the medical arena, internationally known bioethics writers, and experienced chaplains from the clinical setting of transplantation, as well as respected pastoral theologians. The authors, who include Art Caplan, Donald Capps, and Jack Copeland, explain transplantation completely for the nonmedical person and delve into the myriad ethical and religious issues and controversies surrounding organ donation and transplantation. Enlightening chapters clarify issues and help readers better understand the transplantation process, making them more effective in their work with transplant patients. Organ Transplantation in Religious, Ethical and Social Context is divided into three sections. The first emphasizes transplantation as a team effort. Chapters focus on the various roles of chaplains and other team members. Section two addresses ethical questions which arise from transplantation and organ donation and includes interfaith perspectives. The third section is dedicated to theological and pastoral views concerning transplantation. Some specific topics discussed in this book include: a surgeon’s perspective of the role of the chaplain influence of psychosocial factors in the heart transplantation decision process ministry to organ recipients and their families the special relationship between the transplant coordinator and the transplant patient Catholic and interfaith perspectives on organ donation using the Psalms as a pastoral resource with transplant patients Hospital chaplains, transplant social workers, transplant coordinators, and other professionals interested or involved in the process of organ transplantation will find this book to be full of interesting and thought-provoking insights and information.
Enter the world of organ transplantation and develop a new understanding of processes and techniques for working effectively with patients in this increasing medical population. This multidisciplinary overview of organ transplantation contains chapters by major figures in the medical arena, internationally known bioethics writers, and experienced chaplains from the clinical setting of transplantation, as well as respected pastoral theologians. The authors, who include Art Caplan, Donald Capps, and Jack Copeland, explain transplantation completely for the nonmedical person and delve into the myriad ethical and religious issues and controversies surrounding organ donation and transplantation. Enlightening chapters clarify issues and help readers better understand the transplantation process, making them more effective in their work with transplant patients. Organ Transplantation in Religious, Ethical and Social Context is divided into three sections. The first emphasizes transplantation as a team effort. Chapters focus on the various roles of chaplains and other team members. Section two addresses ethical questions which arise from transplantation and organ donation and includes interfaith perspectives. The third section is dedicated to theological and pastoral views concerning transplantation. Some specific topics discussed in this book include: a surgeon’s perspective of the role of the chaplain influence of psychosocial factors in the heart transplantation decision process ministry to organ recipients and their families the special relationship between the transplant coordinator and the transplant patient Catholic and interfaith perspectives on organ donation using the Psalms as a pastoral resource with transplant patients Hospital chaplains, transplant social workers, transplant coordinators, and other professionals interested or involved in the process of organ transplantation will find this book to be full of interesting and thought-provoking insights and information.
Larry Gragg challenges the prevailing view of the seventeenth-century English planters of Barbados as architects of a social disaster. Most historians have described them as profligate and immoral, as grasping capitalists who exploited their servants and slaves in a quest for quick riches inthe cultivation of sugar. Yet, they were more than rapacious entrepreneurs. Like English emigrants to other regions in the empire, sugar planters transplanted many familiar governmental and legal institutions, eagerly started families, abided traditional views about the social order, and resistedcompromises in their diet, apparel, and housing, despite their tropical setting. Seldom becoming absentee planters, these Englishmen developed an extraordinary attraction to Barbados, where they saw themselves, as one group of planters explained in a petition, as 'being Englishmentransplanted'.
“My Liver Transplant: Journey of Faith” accounts for Dr Vincent’s long-suffering cancerous liver condition, its treatment and eventually its transplant. He faced his health condition realistically but at the same time, praying for the best interest of God as well. This is a real-life story account of the tears, triumphs, and joys of the life of a brother who knows Jesus Christ and was privileged to go through the fiery furnace of illness. Along his journey, he learned many spiritual lessons; how his faith grew with each passing phase of health stages.
Transplanted is the remarkable story of Erma and Delmer Martin and their incredible journey through the ultra-high-tech world of modern medicine and liver transplantation, but from the perspective of a culture dedicated to a simple life mostly devoid of futuristic technologies. This story is beautifully told and encompasses not just the medical miracles that define transplantation, but more importantly, it encompasses the fierce love and devotion between two people, the intimate details of their family and the effects of Erma's health issues, and the love and support of their community. It is a story of hope and unshakeable faith a faith in God and His Son Jesus Christ, the eternal physician a story of successes and failures, of realized dreams and unfulfilled opportunities. Erma's story, told through Delmer, should be an inspiration of hope to all those who read it, and a model for those who must endure it."
Sherry's story reveals her testimony through a blood cancer diagnosis and into treatment with a bone marrow transplant. Sherry's faith was tested many times throughout a four year period and especially during the days of her transplant. Her attention to detail and documentation of daily events through the process will prove to be invaluable to so many that may be facing the same type of treatment. Sherry is a Christian, wife, mother, health coach and independent consultant for a health and wellness company. She holds a Masters Degree in Public Administration and is retired from the Federal Government where she served as a Systems Accountant for over 30 years. She is active in her church and aspires to help others through her testimony.