Mission Life!: The power of Never Giving Up & The Miracle of Organ Transplant.

ISBN-13: 9781502466846 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 302 str.

Eladio Elizondo; Benedicte Muratet

Opis

About the book After being diagnosed with end stage liver cirrhosis, and faced with the bitter truth of such terminal illness--about a year to live only-- Eladio Elizondo embarked on a furious mission to save his life. In this book, he particularly emphasizes on the monumental efforts required from anyone who has been thrown into the abyss of a fatal disease, and he celebrates how each one of these efforts can help a person overcome a terminal diagnosis. This book is more than a diary. In addition to being a testimony of what happened, it is mainly a retrospective on how the disease affected several of the author's intrinsic facets. Physiological facet: From being a healthy, strong man, to becoming the morbid, skeletal shadow of a dying man, with massive abdominal ascites, severe portal hypertension, and traumatic encephalopathy. Psychological facet: From the understandable, yet exhausting distress and denial of being revealed a terminal disease, to the disturbing, terrifying phobias of an uncontrolled mind. From unbearably painful, anxious and restless nights in Florida, to comatose, delirious, and excruciating days in a hospital in Costa Rica. Philosophical facet: From asking what pain is, to understanding it and learning from it. From asking what victory is and requires, to becoming victorious. From asking what action is, to surviving a secure death. This book is also a manual which lessons are carefully engraved, so that readers can use them, so that they can adapt them to their particular situation, and adapt their particular situation to them."