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The story of a heart : two families, one heart, and the medical miracle that saved a child's life Cover Image Book

The story of a heart : two families, one heart, and the medical miracle that saved a child's life

Clarke, Rachel (Physician) (author).

Summary: "One summer day, nine-year-old Keira Ball was in a terrible car accident and suffered catastrophic brain injuries. As the rest of her body began to shut down, her heart continued to beat. In an act of extraordinary generosity, Keira's parents and siblings immediately agreed that she would have wanted to be an organ donor. Meanwhile nine-year-old Max Johnson had been in a hospital for nearly a year, valiantly fighting the virus that was causing his young heart to fail. When Max's parents received the call they had been hoping for, they knew it came at a terrible cost to another family--in what Clarke calls "the brutal arithmetic of transplant surgery." The act of Keira's heart resuming its rhythm inside Max's body was a medical miracle. But this was only part of the story. While waiting on the transplant list, Max had become the hopeful face of a campaign to change the UK's laws around organ donation. Following his successful surgery, Keira's mother saw the little boy beaming on the front page of the newspaper and knew it was the same boy whose parents had recently sent her an anonymous letter overflowing with gratitude for her daughter's heart. The two mothers began to exchange messages and eventually decided to meet"--

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  • ISBN: 9781668045435
  • ISBN: 1668045435
  • ISBN: 9781668045442
  • ISBN: 1668045443
  • Physical Description: print
    xxi, 232 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First Scribner edition
  • Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2024.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:
Prologue -- Kiera -- Max -- Resuscitation -- Crocodiles -- Limbo -- HeartWare -- Matching -- Waiting -- Goodbye -- Judgment -- Retrieval -- Transplant -- Aftermath -- Epilogue.

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Subject:
Johnson, Max 2008- Health
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. in children Great Britain History 21st century
Heart Transplantation Patients Great Britain Biography
Organ donors Great Britain Biography
Ball, Keira 2008-2017 Death and burial
Organ donors Family relationships
Donation of organs, tissues, etc Great Britain History 21st century
Donation of organs, tissues, etc Psychological aspects
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Informational works.
Biographies.

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