The gift that heals : stories of hope, renewal and transformation through organ and tissue donation / Reg Green.

Author: Green, Reg, 1929-

Imprint:Bloomington, Ind. : AuthorHouse, 2007.

Descriptionxii, 184 p. ; 24 cm.

Note:Life on the Waiting List -- A Race Against Time- Every Time -- "A Great Daddy" -- Grateful Husband Donates to Total Stranger -- From Cancer Patient to Miss Utah -- Families Who Rise Above Grief -- Mother's Persistence Revives Life-Saving Procedure -- The Lung Recipient Who Ran a Marathon -- The Transplant Surgeon Who Needed a Transplant -- "Baby" of the Family Saves Four -- Liver Recipient Becomes Olympic Medalist -- Nurse Dispels Myths about Transplantation -- Coach's Tissue Lets Others Play the Games He Loved -- Parishioner's Heart Saves Her Pastor -- After 1,000 Transplant Operations, Surgeon Still "In Awe" over Results -- Engulfed by Fire, Saved by Donated Skin -- Transplant Team Copes with Child's Tragedy amid World-Shaking Event -- Transplants Unite Jews and Muslims -- Lung Recipient Runs up Skyscraper -- Nurse Helps Recipients Find a New Way of Life -- Death-and Hope- in the Middle East -- Little Alexa, Sick from Birth -- Blind for 48 Years, He Can See Again -- Nurse Still Shocked by How Sick Some Children Are -- Life out of Death on the Long Island Railroad -- Dynamic Child Needed New Heart -- Daughter's Decision Saves Father's Life -- The Day They Shot Shafeeq -- Family Donates Five Kidneys- Three of Them to Strangers -- Two Weeks a Citizen, Then Killed -- Fighting for Life in a Louisiana Storm -- Recipients Surprised by Their New Lives -- Identical Twins, Identical Illness, Identical Transplants -- Kidney Patients Rescued from Miserable Life -- Transplant Consoles Lonely Brother -- "Perfectly Fit Man" Had Heart Failure -- Basketball Champion While in Need of a Transplant -- The Man Who Donated Twice -- Police Officer, Left for Dead, Golfing Again -- You're Never Too Old -- Patches of Love: The Donor Quilt -- The Boy Who Saved Thousands of Lives The Author's Own Story.

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