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About My Heart Transplant For Your Amusement
Product Description Why in the world would anyone write a humorous book about his own heart transplant? Recipient and author Vince Clews answers the question: “My mind tends to see humor in what others think ‘isn’t so damn funny.’” The fact is that there was not much funny about the nearly five-year battle with heart disease, congestive heart failure, six-month hospitalization, heart transplant and recovery. Not for Vince. Nor for his wife, Carol. Nor for his family and friends, especially daughter, Ashleigh, who adapted her life to share duties with Carol.Throughout My Heart Transplant for Your Amusement, there are unexpected moments of humor, such as when Vince and Carol are told that a heart transplant could save Vince’s life. “Carol hung onto those two words ‘heart transplant’ like a terrier with a bone. She talked with people about it like we had won an all-expenses-paid Roman holiday cruise. I saw it as a rowboat ride across the river Styx.”In other somber instances, the descriptive narrative allows the reader to understand the heaviness of moments in the journey. “‘Mrs. Clews, you and Ashleigh may want to stay here tonight. Mr. Clews is struggling. He may not make it through the night.’ I do not know, and hope I never learn, what it must have been like for those two special women during those long, long hours of waiting.”My Heart Transplant for Your Amusement provides the reader with an inside look at the people, the procedures, and the progression of emotions Vince experienced as he moved from standing on death’s “Welcoming mat” to finding that “Home is where the (new) heart is.”A joyous, emotional reading experience from cover to cover. From the Author Why in the world would anyone write a humorous book abouthis own heart transplant? Recipient and author Vince Clews answers thequestion: "My mind tends to see humor in what others think 'isn't so damnfunny.'" The fact is, there was not much funny about the nearly fiveyear battle Clews fought with a rare disease called Amyloidosis that resultedin congestive heart failure, six-month hospitalization, heart transplant ,andrecovery. It was not funny for Vince. Nor for his wife, Carol. Nor for hisfamily and friends, especially adult daughter, Ashleigh, who also adapted herlife during her dad's struggle for life. Throughout My Heart Transplant for Your Amusement, there areunexpected moments of humor, such as when Vince and Carol are told that a hearttransplant could save Vince's life. "Carol hung onto those two words 'hearttransplant' like a terrier with a bone. She talked with people about it like wehad won an all-expenses-paid Roman holiday cruise. I saw it as a rowboat rideacross the river Styx." In other somber instances, the descriptive narrative allowsthe reader to understand the heaviness of many moments in the journey. "'Mrs.Clews, you and Ashleigh may want to stay here tonight. Mr. Clews is struggling.He may not make it through the night.' I do not know, and hope I never learn,what it must have been like for those two special women during those long, longhours of waiting." My Heart Transplant for Your Amusement provides the readerwith an inside look at the people, the procedures, and the progression ofemotions Vince experienced as he moved from standing on death's "Welcomingmat," to ending the journey simply. "Home is where the (new) heart is." A joyous, emotional reading experience from cover to cover. From the Inside Flap Tableof Contents Letterto Donor Family Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Le Moribund 2.Bad News from Reggio di Calabria 3.Johns (that's with an "s") Hopkins 4.Accepted...Maybe 5.2.1 and Counting 6.The Woman Who Did Not Lie 7.The Man on the Platform 8.♪Party Pooper, Party Pooper♪ 9.The Other Side of the Mat 10.It Ain't Dancing, But It'll Do 11.An Aging Pachyderm in an Open Gown 12.Carol, the Warden 13.The Best Piece of Advice Ever 14.No Rest for the Weary 15.Right Where I Needed to Be 16.A New York Kind of Girl
