Sick Girl

"A fierce journey into the life of a young heart transplant patient, Sick Girl is extraordinary both for its story of a medical miracle and for its unique and forceful narrator, Amy Silverstein." "At just twenty-four, Amy was a typical type-A law student: smart, driven, and highly competitive. With a budding romance and a heavy academic schedule, Amy did not have time for illness - even one that caused her heart to pound violently and erratically in her chest, for her to blackout, lose her breath, and suffer temporary blindness. When her family doctor suggested that her symptoms were due to stress and diet, Amy was more than happy to drop a few classes, think calm thoughts, and eat fistfuls of salt. At such a young age, how could she have guessed that her heart was about to give out?" "Amy Silverstein - a surprisingly irreverent narrator - chronicles with grace and force her harrowing medical journey from the first misdiagnosis to her astonishing and ongoing recovery post-transplant. Her memoir is made all the more dramatic by the deliriously romantic bedside courtship with her devoted boyfriend, Scott, and her uncompromising desire to become a mother." "Distrustful of her doctors and insistent in her refusal to be the "grateful heart patient" she is expected to be, Amy presents a patient's perspective that is truly eye-opening and sometimes controversial."--BOOK JACKET.Silverstein, Amy is the author of 'Sick Girl ', published 2007 under ISBN 9780802118547 and ISBN 0802118542.