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    My Kidney Transplant: A Sometimes Serious, Sometimes Not, Collection of Essays
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    My Kidney Transplant: A Sometimes Serious, Sometimes Not, Collection of Essays
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    My Kidney Transplant: A Sometimes Serious, Sometimes Not, Collection of Essays

    By Benjamin Sobieck

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    About this ebook

    In 2010, I received a kidney transplant from a living donor after being diagnosed with...actually, I don't know. And neither do the doctors. But that doesn't mean I can't use my platform as a writer to tell people about my experience and have a little fun along the way.

    This is a collection of essays I wrote before and after my transplant. I published it to educate readers about organ donation, bust myths about transplants, offer some inspiration for those going through the same things I did and to show how a good sense of humor can be the best medicine.

    What's inside:

    PRE-TRANSPLANT
    A Significant Day
    Waiting and More Waiting
    10 Surprising Facts About Kidney Transplants I Learned While Waiting for One
    Found: One Kidney

    POST-TRANSPLANT
    Adjusting
    The Good and Bad of Anti-Rejection Meds
    Side Effects of Side Effects of Side Effects
    Putting Off My Annual Physical Nearly Killed Me
    4 Reasons You Won’t Wake Up in an Ice Bath Missing a Kidney - and 1 You Might
    Kidney Transplants on TV
    Maynard Soloman vs. The Kidney Thieves (Fiction)

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBenjamin Sobieck
    Release dateMar 25, 2015
    ISBN9781310880155
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    My Kidney Transplant: A Sometimes Serious, Sometimes Not, Collection of Essays
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    Benjamin Sobieck

    Benjamin Sobieck is the author of The Writer's Guide to Weapons: A Practical Reference for Writing Firearms and Knives in Fiction (Writer's Digest Books), Glass Eye: Confessions of a Fake Psychic Detective, The Invisible Hand (New Pulp Press, late 2015), the Maynard Soloman crime fiction humor series, Cleansing Eden and numerous short stories scattered about the lonesome alleys of the Internet. His website is CrimeFictionBook.com.

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