WITHOUT SKIPPING A BEAT - Morgan, Kirsten
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When a healthy, two-week-old baby turns blue and has trouble breathing, his stunned parents rush him to the emergency room. "We've got a baby! It looks bad-really bad!" a doctor shouts to his team. Tests reveal that he's in heart failure, with a transplant his only hope of survival. But even if a heart can be found, he's far too ill to survive surgery. This is the story of that child, his family, and the astonishing events that surround this day and those to follow. A collection of anecdotes and observations shows parents rising into each new challenge, never able to predict what the next…mehr

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When a healthy, two-week-old baby turns blue and has trouble breathing, his stunned parents rush him to the emergency room. "We've got a baby! It looks bad-really bad!" a doctor shouts to his team. Tests reveal that he's in heart failure, with a transplant his only hope of survival. But even if a heart can be found, he's far too ill to survive surgery. This is the story of that child, his family, and the astonishing events that surround this day and those to follow. A collection of anecdotes and observations shows parents rising into each new challenge, never able to predict what the next moment might bring, but somehow finding their way, step by unknown step. A tale of terror, hope and exceptional courage, this book paints in vivid detail their responses to a wild emotional ride, where surprise consistently replaces expectation. None of this was in the plan, but their story will warm the heart of every reader whose life has taken a sudden turn into an unknown land without a map to guide the way.
Autorenporträt
Kirsten Morgan has taught poetry to children in an independent school, elders in a lifelong learning program, and clients of The Gathering Place, a day shelter for homeless and impoverished women. She is a longtime member of Denver's Lighthouse Writers Workshop, has published many poems in literary journals and was a finalist for The Birdy Prize from Meadowlark Press. She is the author of Without Skipping a Beat: A Child's Heart Transplant Journey, editor of One Day, One Night at a Time: Women Write of Poverty, Homelessness and Hope, and co-editor of An Uncertain Age: Poems by Bold Women of a Certain Age. Kirsten hikes, snowshoes, reads incessantly and writes prose and poetry delightedly, in Denver and snuggled into her house deep in the mountains.