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Summary: Food for thought
Review: After reading "The Heart's Code" by Paul Pearsall and now this book I am convinced we are just beginning to scratch the surface of the science of transplant information and details about the heart and how it controls personality.It is a proven fact that heart patients who are ill have a sudden change in temperment and also proven that transplant patients take on some characteristics of the donor. There was a case of a nun who received the heart of a prostitute (absolutely true story) and many more in Paul's book and this book seems to focus on one true story of one woman. You have to be careful though, if you've had open heart surgery or are waiting on a transplant it can get a bit emotionally heavy as you related to her having to face death. Watch the dark tones and you'll be fine as you read the info. The object is to come away having learned some secrets of what to expect and those are very very interesting. There was also a case of a transplant recipient who began using vocabulary words from the donor and then later when the patient met the donor's family and used those rare words randomly they were floored. Good read.
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Summary: EXCELLENT
Review: After reading "The Heart's Code" by Paul Pearsall and now this book I am convinced we are just beginning to scratch the surface of the science of transplant information and details about the heart and how it controls personality. It is a proven fact that heart patients who are ill have a sudden change in temperment and also proven that transplant patients take on some characteristics of the donor. There was a case of a nun who received the heart of a prostitute (absolutely true story) and many more in Paul's book and this book seems to focus on one true story of one woman. You have to be careful though, if you've had open heart surgery or are waiting on a transplant it can get a bit emotionally heavy as you related to her having to face death. Watch the dark tones and you'll be fine as you read the info. The object is to come away having learned some secrets of what to expect and those are very very interesting. There was also a case of a transplant recipient who began using vocabulary words from the donor and then later when the patient met the donor's family and used those rare words randomly they were floored. Good read.
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Summary: An Engrossing and Troubling Read
Review: At the very least, the book is an absorbing first person look at the way a major health crisis affects a person's life. In that regard, it's too bad that Norman Cousins is not around to add his own observations. But the book certainly raises some interesting questions for me. It would be easy to dismiss Claire Sylvia's post-transplant feelings as the quirks of an artistic person with new-age sensitivities, who had been raised in a family in which dreams and images were vitally important. However, the authors have been careful to demonstrate that Ms. Sylvia's eerie premonitions about her heart and lung donor are not uncommon. This book adds to the growing weight of evidence that Western medicine does not possess all the answers, and in fact may not know all the questions. I can't think of a recent book that has more profoundly affected my feelings about death and life.
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Summary: An Astounding Personal Story
Review: Claire Sylvia's book will cause you to reevaluate everything you know about your body, your personality, and life overall. Before reading her account I never would have believed that individual organs within the human body have their own awareness, intelligence, and memory. Slyvia's story is a testament to enduring and magical properties of living things and shows that modern science has yet to fully grasp the amazing nature of biological life. Highly recommended. (Dr. Simeon Hein is the author of Opening Minds: A Journey of Extraordinary Encounters, Crop Circles, and Resonance (Mount Baldy Press, Inc.))
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Summary: Personal experience
Review: Claire Sylvia's Change of Heart is a great book because it makes you think about things you never thought would possibly happen. It's like "The Others" (the Other Side) or "The X-files" but in real - but not in a way that you don't believe it. I really believe that she feel that he - the teenaged boy who died in a motorcycle accident -is apart of her. Read this special book if you want a new view of your life!
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Summary: Not so bad
Review: I bought this book because i ever believe in the soul. But i never imagine the kind of things that Claire Sylvia said's. In my opinion is a good book, with incredible moments, things that make you think about the death and the life. A good work by William Novak, who help people like Nancy Reagan, and Magic Johnson to make their biographies before. The history of woman, who needs a new heart. the history of a woman, who star a new life.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: I have recently re-read "A Change of Heart". I congratulate Claire on her fortitude to WRITE the book in the first place. I worked for 20 years as a Surgical Nurse, and heard MANY stories like hers. In most cases, they were instantly dismissed by the current Medical Paradigm. Like her Cardiac Surgeon, their biggest fear is dealing with something that is beyond their present range of knowledge. I am thankful that the current state of medicine is being forced to change. We, who have worked in 'the system' know that although some of it works, the majority DOES NOT ! It happens that most of us who have been in medicine, know that it does not have all the answers. In looking truthfully at stories like these and the near-death research,we know that Western medical practice is being forced to change. I see so many things that are of great service, however, too many people cannot participate because of rising medical costs, and lack of Insurance to cover such help. As a 'Drop Out' from that system,I applaud the research into new vistas. I hope allof the readers of this book do so with an open mind, and HEART.
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Summary: Personal experience
Review: I've known Claire Silva for many years. I knew her well before her body started to fail. This book is her reality. It unfolded just as she states. If her story seems amazing, consider how it must have felt to her, miraculous, beyond belief. She is ever so rapidly dying, then a chance to receive a heart and lung, (the first in New England, "experimental surgery") suddenly, out-of-the-blue. Friends rush her to Yale, New Haven, CT. she receieves a new life. New heart, new lung, more than that. New cells, old memories. The dreams begin. She has incorporated new celllular tissue, new DNA residue and the doctors have warned her that the tissue could be rejected. Incredibly,the memories of a dead young man begin to flood her dreams, her senses. I met Claire after the surgery. We spent quite a bit of time together. A change of person and heart had taken place. Read this book and trust that there are some things that science and medicine may never unravel. Draw from your own knowledge, intuition and experience. Your reality is within you. Claire chose to share this experience. Her experience is something that will cause you to think about how you live your own life. It will cause you to realize how special and extra-ordinary you are as a result of your own unique genetic, societal, physical and psychological composition. It may cause you to dream and wonder and question the courage you fail to exhibit to the world for fear of being ridiculed. Finally, this is a book about a woman with the courage and the desire to live and the willpower and curiosity to explore and investigate her changed life and her changed reality. 143
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Summary: EXCELLENT
Review: This book was amazing, it changed how I looked at transplants. What the patients go thru, and there are times that the Doctors want to only think CLINICALLY, but there are times and instances that you have to look beyond, and believe what you don't see and trust in that.
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