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  • My Glory Was I Had Such Friends

  • A Memoir
  • By: Amy Silverstein
  • Narrated by: Erin Moon
  • Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (110 ratings)

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My Glory Was I Had Such Friends

By: Amy Silverstein
Narrated by: Erin Moon
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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 26 years after receiving her first heart transplant, Amy Silverstein'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.

©2017 Amy Silverstein (P)2017 HarperCollins Publishers
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Such a beautiful depiction of life & love

As a sister to a brain cancer patient (my sister), I listened and followed along, remembering so many similar stories between me, my other sisters, nieces and family friends who also took their turn caring for our beautiful sister through two brain surgeries and emotionally and psychologically trying physical and occupational therapy, not to mention the recovery and slow process of healing... in this book, Ms Silverstein so aptly doles out the pain, the lessons, the gratitude, the love and life reflections that happen among all involved. So very well done.

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please read this book

as a transplant recipient reading this memoir Mimi overcome with many emotions. words put out there that were hard for me to master showing Uncle great picture of how it truly is. I would recommend it over and over again to so many

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Narration poor. Very stiff narration

Narration stuff and like gps voice. More words in review due to required quota of word for reviews

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Fabulous.

Glorious, indeed. If not a memoir, would not be believable. Amy, I hope you are well.

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Raw, heart breaking and uplifting

A story that could slide into depressing, actually reveals the authors internal transformation and the enviable relationships she is surrounded with and comes to wholly comprehend and appreciate. Lessons for us all.

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Great listen!

Everyone who works in healthcare should listen.

I don’t love that I’m required to write something.

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The strength of our circles

What a beautiful story about love, friendship, strength and perseverance and how one should always advocate and become as educated as you can when you are dealing with something as horrible (death) but yet beautiful (prolonged life) as organ transplantation can me, the dedicated healthcare workers don’t get enough praise & respect.

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