Defiance

By Valerie Hobbs

Book Overview

The human body is a complicated machine of organs, chemicals, and life. But what happens when you lose a vital piece of this machinery? Are you sentenced to die, or can you fight back? You can live without a pancreas Due to a surgeon's horrendous mistake during routine gallbladder surgery, author Clyde Vaughan lost his pancreas. After weeks in the hospital, struggling to stay alive, he was finally released with an insulin pump and enzymes to digest his food. He received little to no information as to how to actually live without a pancreas. Even his doctors couldn't advise him. After much research, as well as trial and error, the author has found a regimen for living a full life without his pancreas. If you are suffering from the loss of your pancreas, You Can Live Without a Pancreas can help you return to a near-normal lifestyle. 'This book is filled with practical information about coping with a life-changing health situation, as well as poignant and humorous stories of the author and his wife.' -Pamela Wiggins 'This is a fascinating book that highlights the limits of modern medical practice...The lesson...is to question your doctors, learn about the risks of 'routine' treatment, and accept that...there are still huge unknowns in modern medicine.' -Ted Levy 'Utilizing his down-home intuition and his wife's motivating spirit, Vaughan demonstrates that the impossible is actually attainable. Clyde's recovery...is a metaphor for how any of us can respond to life's unexpected challenges.' -Jonathan Lightman

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374308470
• ISBN13: 9780374308476
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 8.7"
• Age Range: 10 to 13 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 8

Customer Reviews

Execellent Everybody Book

This book is a heart-warming, couragous story. I found myself smiling and by the end, shedding a few tears! What a great story about life, relationships, feelings and more. A must read for anyone!!

Cancer Kid

The thing about cancer is that only a person who has it knows how hard it really is to take care of the problem. It's not like you get to pick if you have it or not, it just happens. In the book DEFIANCE a boy about 11 years old finds another lump on his side, He gets real scared, trust me if I had cancer and I found a lump on my side I would be worried too. The one big mistake someone with cancer can do is not tell anyone and let it get worse. I know how hard it must be for the parents because they worry all the time. My grandma has lung cancer, and she dosn't even smoke. It's real hard to just leave them alone but you have to learn to and that is what this whole book is all about really, he wants his mom to leave him alone about his problem but is comes back and he just doesn't want to go through it agian. I wouldn't want to eather. Toby meets someone who helps him make the right choices in the end so he soesn't make dumb ones, like not getting the treatment he needs for his cancer. he just wishes he could be a normal kid and that is what put this book together, the choices he made, and how he made them.