Book Review - Second Go

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Blurb:

Penned in real time, from the hospital bed while battling for life, on a Samsung Galaxy smartphone’s 4x2 inch keypad, the only device allowed to the patient in her super-sanitized recuperating room, this book follows a hybrid format of medico-psycho thriller, interspersed with SMS chats, transcripts of medical records and other workings of an addled mind overcome by sickness, yet determined to pull through.

It is a first-hand account of a liver transplant recipient’s journey in India, chronicled from the patient’s perspective in vivid detail as a series of dramatic events unfold in her life, completing the cycle from sickness to health, despair to hope.

It also tells the story of a single mom and breadwinner of the family, her strong bonding with her adoptive daughter and her family and friends’ support.

The author hopes that this book will give courage and direction to other patients whose lives are hanging by a thread, patients awaiting a life-saving cadaveric organ donation.

Review:

"life is unpredicatable, but no matter what it throws at us, we should endure it with strenght and smile.

Second Go is a non-fiction book based on real-life events. The author has penned down her journey of pain and sufferings. Due to some unfortunate circumstances, she had to get a liver transplant. And this book narrates what went down in her life.

The story starts in a turmoil to get a liver. And it ends with her being saved. Throughout the book we see how a person struggles in today's advanced medical world. How a patient and his/her family lives in a constant fear of losing a loved one. How financial situations wreak havoc. And how a normal person goes insane in the entire process.

In a way, esp for me, it is a very depressing book because the way it is written, you can feel the pain of the author -- this is a compliment for the author as her writing style is amazing. But, all throughout I had to keep one thing in the mind, everything ended well because this book is a proof that the author (i.e. the patient in the book) is alive and writing.

This book is for everyone who is or knows someone suffering from a life-threatening disease. I would recommend it to them."

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