Waiting: 568 Thoughts While Waiting for a Heart Transplant Contributor(s): O'Boyle, Kate (Author) |
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ISBN: 1947703056 ISBN-13: 9781947703056 Publisher: Catherine O'Boyle OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 2019 |
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BISAC Categories: - Health & Fitness | Diseases - Heart - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs |
Physical Information: 0.68" H x 5.51" W x 8.5" (0.83 lbs) 324 pages |
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Publisher Description: Christiaan Neethling Barnard (8 November 1922 - 2 September 2001) was a South A ican cardiac surgeon who performed the world's first human-to-human heart transplant on December 3, 1967. Never the same againIn 1967, at the age of 12, I read in the newspaper that Dr. Christian Barnard had performed the first human-to-human heart transplant. I remember seeing the photograph of Luis Washkansky in his hospital bed. I was amazed. I wondered what Louis was feeling. I wondered what it was like having someone else's heart? I wondered how all of that was possible? Although he would die 18 days later, the story of that heart transplant remained with me. Little did I know that not only would I be related to someone with a heart transplant but, that I would undergo this same life-saving procedure. |