Category: transplant
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Real Life (from the Momplex Blog archive)
Three years ago today, on my mom’s birthday, I received a call that punched me in the gut during a business lunch: It was my dad, letting me know that a possible donor heart had been found for him. In the business of heart transplantation, the person in need of the heart lives in a…
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School Matters: Who Knew the Earth Had a Foreskin? (from the Momplex Blog archives)
I am a writer, so people are often surprised to learn I skipped a grade in math. Maybe it’s not because I’m a writer that they’re surprised. Maybe it’s because I seem kind of dumb with numbers. In truth, I sort of am. It’s not so much that I’m naturally, intrinsically dumb with them. It’s…
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How Parenthood–and a New Heart–Taught Me to Appreciate My Dad (from the Momplex Blog archives)
For six months, I had a battery-operated dad. This is different—significantly—from having a battery-operated “boyfriend.” (We all know what that looks like.) My dad’s battery was a big, heavy square that fit into a wearable pouch given to him in the cardiac ICU. He’d just had open-heart surgery, and the battery connected to a tube…
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