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03330aim a22003855a 4500 001 9DD4C860DE6411E8A1A4695297128E48 003 SILO 005 20181102010026 006 m o h 007 sz zunnnnnuned 007 cr nnannnuuuua 008 180629s2017 xxunnn es z n eng d 020 $a 0062681397 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 020 $a 9780062681393 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 028 42 $a MWT11902430 040 $a Midwest $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a Silverstein, Amy, $e author. 245 10 $a My glory was I had such friends : $b a memoir $h [electronic resource] / $c Amy Silverstein. 250 $a Unabridged. 264 1 $a [United States] : $b Harper Collins Publishers, $c 2017. 300 $a 1 online resource (1 audio file (12hr., 20 min.)) : $b digital. 506 $a Digital content provided by hoopla. 511 0 $a Read by Erin Moon. 520 $a In this moving memoir about the power of friendship and the resilience of the human spirit, Amy Silverstein tells the story of the extraordinary group of women who supported her as she waited on the precipice for a life-saving heart transplant. Nearly twenty-six years after receiving her first heart transplant, Amy Silberstein's donor heart plummeted into failure. If she wanted to live, she had to take on the grueling quest for a new heart immediately. A shot at survival meant uprooting her life and moving across the country to California. When her friends heard of her plans, there was only one reaction: I'm there. Nine remarkable women Joy, Jill, Leja, Jody, Lauren, Robin, Valerie, Ann, and Jane put demanding jobs and pressing family obligations on hold to fly across the country and be by Amy's side. Creating a calendar spreadsheet, the women some of them strangers to one another passed the baton of friendship, one to the next, and headed straight and strong into the battle to help save Amy's life. Empowered by the kind of empathy that can only grow with age, these women, each knowing Amy from different stages of her life, banded together to provide her with something that medicine alone could not. Sleeping on a cot beside her bed, they rubbed her back and feet when the pain was unbearable, adorned her room with death-distracting decorations, and engaged in their best talks ever. They saw the true measure of their friend's strength, and they each responded in kind. My Glory Was I Had Such Friends is a tribute to these women and the intense hours they spent together hours of heightened emotion and self-awareness, where everything was laid bare. Candid and heartrending, this once-in-a-lifetime story of connection and empathy is a powerful reminder of the ultimate importance of showing up for those we love. 538 $a Mode of access: World Wide Web. 600 10 $a Silverstein, Amy $x Health. 650 0 $a Heart $x Patients $x Patients $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Female friendship. 700 1 $a Moon, Erin, $e narrator. 710 2 $a hoopla digital. 856 40 $u https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/11902430 $z Instantly available on hoopla. 856 42 $z Cover image $u https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/hpc_9780062681393_180.jpeg 941 $a 1 952 $l CDPF771 $d 20181102010458.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9DD4C860DE6411E8A1A4695297128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search