Hundreds of interlaced fingers : a kidney doctor's search for the perfect match / Vanessa Grubbs, MD
By: Grubbs, Vanessa.
Publisher: New York : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, ©2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: First Amistad paperback edition.Description: 261 pages ; 21 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780062418180; 0062418181.Other title: Kidney doctor's search for the perfect match.Subject(s): Grubbs, Vanessa | Grubbs, Vanessa -- Family | Nephrologists -- United States -- Biography | Kidneys -- Diseases -- Patients -- United States -- Biography | Kidneys -- Transplantation -- United StatesGenre/Form: Print books.Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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On Shelf | RC902 .G78 2018 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU00000000018710 |
"Frequently asked questions" about kidney function, disease, and transplants follows the text
"A hardcover edition of this book was published in 2017 by Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers."--Title page verso
If he only had her. Someday comes ; Ulterior motives ; Bid whist ; The other Robert Phillips ; Peanut in a box of worms -- But will she stay. Complications ; Another dialysis machine ; The candle is lit ; Knuckleheads and nerds -- She is a thing of beauty. Her ; Babies ; Zebras ; Horses -- You're gonna miss her when she's gone. Expectations ; Ready or not ; Changing times -- Letting her go. Dirty white boy ; Three ladies ; What lies ahead
A physician, wife, and mother describes her marriage to a husband with end-stage kidney disease, her decision to donate one of her kidneys to him, and the journey that led to her becoming a kidney specialist