When I Was Four, My Mother Left Me Alone in a Church—Twenty Years Later She Returned Crying, “We Need You”
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Chapter 28 - I CONTINUE
More testing.
Physical examination.
Blood counts.
Infectious disease screening.
Cardiac evaluation.
A psychological assessment.
I signed authorization allowing the donor team to tell Hannah’s transplant doctors what they needed medically.
I did not authorize my parents to receive my unrelated health information.
I also requested that all contact from the family go through the transplant coordinator unless I initiated otherwise.
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The hospital respected that.
My body did not become family property simply because its cells might help.
