一颗心的故事：两家一心，医疗奇迹挽救了一名儿童的生命

English | September 10th, 2024 | ISBN: 1668045435 | 256 pages | True EPUB | 1.86 MB

A riveting and inspiring true story of two families linked by one heart—written by a bestselling author and palliative care doctor.

The first of our organs to form and the last to die, the heart is both a simple pump and the symbol of what makes us human; as long as it continues to beat, there is hope. In The Story of a Heart, Dr. Rachel Clarke interweaves the history of medical innovations behind transplant surgery with the story of two children—one of whom desperately needs a new heart.

One summer day, nine-year-old Keira Ball was in a terrible car accident and suffered catastrophic brain injuries. As the rest of her body began to shut down, her heart continued to beat. In an act of extraordinary generosity, Keira's parents and siblings immediately agreed that she would have wanted to be an organ donor. Meanwhile nine-year-old Max Johnson had been in a hospital for nearly a year, valiantly fighting the virus that was causing his young heart to fail. When Max's parents received the call they had been hoping for, they knew it came at a terrible cost to another family—in what Clarke calls "the brutal arithmetic of transplant surgery."

The act of Keira's heart resuming its rhythm inside Max's body was a medical miracle. But this was only part of the story. While waiting on the transplant list, Max had become the hopeful face of a campaign to change the UK's laws around organ donation. Following his successful surgery, Keira's mother saw the little boy beaming on the front page of the newspaper and knew it was the same boy whose parents had recently sent her an anonymous letter overflowing with gratitude for her daughter's heart. The two mothers began to exchange messages and eventually decided to meet.

This is the unforgettable story of how one family's grief transformed into a lifesaving gift. Clarke relates the urgent journey of Keira's heart and explores the history of the remarkable surgery that made it possible, stretching back over a century and involving the knowledge and dedication not just of surgeons but of countless nurses and technicians, immunologists and paramedics. The Story of a Heart is a testament to compassion for the dying, the many ways we honor our loved ones, and the tenacity of love.

一部扣人心弦且鼓舞人心的真实故事，讲述了两家人因一颗心而紧密相连——由畅销书作家兼临终关怀医生所著。 心脏是最早形成的器官之一，也是最后消失的。它既是简单的泵，又是使我们成为人类的象征；只要它继续跳动，就有希望。在《心脏的故事》中，Rachel Clarke 整合了移植手术背后的医疗创新历史，并讲述了一个孩子的真实故事——其中一个孩子迫切需要一颗新的心脏。 九岁的凯拉·巴尔在一个可怕的车祸中受重伤，遭受了严重的脑部伤害。随着她的身体其他部分逐渐停止运作，她的心脏继续跳动着。在一次极为壮举的慷慨举动下，凯拉的父母和兄弟姐妹立即同意将女儿视为器官捐献者。与此同时，九岁的麦克斯·约翰逊已经在医院里待了一年多，勇敢地与导致他年轻心脏衰竭的病毒斗争。当麦克斯的父母接到他们期盼已久的电话时，他们知道这对另一家人来说代价惨重——这在 Rachel Clarke 所称的“移植手术中的残酷算术”中尤为明显。 凯拉的心脏在马克斯的身体里恢复了节律，这是医学奇迹。但这只是故事的一部分。在等待器官移植名单的过程中，麦克斯成为了倡导改变英国器官捐赠法律运动中的希望面孔。经过成功手术后，凯拉的母亲在报纸上看到那个小男孩露齿微笑的照片时，她知道那正是最近给她匿名信件表达感激之情、献上了女儿心脏的夫妇的孩子。这两名母亲开始交流并最终决定见面。 这就是一个家庭的悲伤如何转变为拯救生命的礼物的故事。Clarke 描述了凯拉心脏旅程的紧迫过程，并探索了使这一切成为可能的非凡手术的历史，追溯到一个多世纪之前，涉及不仅包括外科医生的知识和奉献精神，还包括护士、技术人员、免疫学家和急救人员的无数心血与努力。《心脏的故事》是对对待即将离世者的同情心、我们如何向所爱之人表达敬意以及爱情的韧性的一份见证。

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