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While the physical and emotional trials of waiting on transplant lists are featured in popular media, the struggles recipients face years after surgery are not. Voices of Teenage Transplant Survivors introduces illness narratives from an unrecognized patient population: recipients of heart, liver, and kidney transplants. Offering unique narratives by adolescents who use poetry to explore issues surrounding the changing body, independence, identity, and mortality, the book showcases a message of healing and voices of hope amid uncertainty.
Illuminating the physical, psychological, and existential challenges confronted by adolescents for which organ rejection and side effects loom in their future, Sample details the poetry workshops where these adolescents articulated experiences silenced by family, friends, and the culture of medicine. She includes close readings and analyses of their writings, along with writing prompts and references to narrative medicine theory. This powerful book offers something new for medical and health professionals, medical humanities researchers, students, and the public.
Chapter 1. Hello, My Name Is;
Chapter 2. Illness and the Ways It Names Us
Chapter 3. Miracle-like
Chapter 4. Teens Just Want to Have Fun;
Chapter 5. The Drive for Independence;
Chapter 6. On the Edge
Chapter 7. Marcus
Chapter 8. Echoes
Chapter 9. Biopsies: Not Benign Procedures ;
Chapter 10. The Truth about Metaphors ;
Chapter 11. Yeah Right, Poetry ;
Chapter 12. Celebration;
Chapter 13. For Those Who Help Us Survive ;
Chapter 14. Waiting Room;
Chapter 15. Utterly Alone;
Chapter 16. Lost and Found;
Chapter 17. Mirror, Mirror on the Wall;
Chapter 18. Reflection;
Chapter 19. Boys and Their Bodies;
Chapter 20. Our Scars, Our Selves ;
Chapter 21. Mark This Beautiful ;
Chapter 22. The Transplant Dream
Chapter 23. Nightmares ;