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Susan Whitman and Joseph Helfgot Helfgot

Boston, MA (openPR) 8 October 2010

the game: Perfect Strangers, Face Transplant a miracle, two lives changed the true story of Susan Whitman is Helfgotâ? ? s dramatic decision and daring operation that changed medical historia? and live? forever.

Joseph Helfgot always knew he would become an organ donor. After battling heart disease for more than a decade, he understood the stakes of life or death of a transplant waiting list. But when he died from complications of his heart surgery, doctors asked his wife Susan, who donate much more personal and controversial ??? Her husband faces. There remains only the second time this transaction was conducted in the United States. The game: Perfect Strangers, Face Transplant a miracle, two lives changed (Simon & Schuster, October 12, 2010; 0.00) is the true story of Susana dramatic decision and daring operation that changed medical historia? ? ? and live? forever.

hospital gripping drama and a compelling personal story THE GAME the extraordinary operation, Josepha? Face James Maki, a Vietnam veteran and former heroin addicts. Author Susan Whitman Helfgot share for the first time the intimate story behind the new title of decision, and the remarkable connections between the two men. It took two operating rooms, 17 hours and thirty-four physicians, nurses and technicians to achieve the transplant. While science and technology revolution, the way itâ open? S courage and compassion of the parties that the game is a fascinating read.

Joseph, a college professor and perennial Hollywood marketing consultant, grew up in postwar New York City, the son of a grocery store worker who had survived Auschwitz. Smart, passionate and unique Joseph charmed everyone he met if they were executives of the film (he dances with wolves contributed success at the box office) or nurses and doctors caring for him at Brigham and rubber boots rain boots? S Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. Susan was hard for him, even after it has send a grab bag filled with fortune cookies read all courted? I love you.I? True to his nature, it was Joseph maintain morale during his twenty-year battle with heart disease, but he lost the battle in its long-awaited transplant surgery. After surgery, blood clot traveled to her brain and caused a massive brain hemorrhage.

While Joseph was taken on Hollywood, James Maki lived in a halfway house outside of Boston. The adopted son of Japanese-American parents, who had in an internment camp during World War I, Jim, an intelligent but troubled child. Japanese side, and part Native American, he was growing up without prejudice and couldn? T seem to fight to stay away. Although he is a gifted athlete, he never found the direction and became addicted to heroin while serving in Vietnam. After his return, Jim was married and had a daughter, but the Wasna? T enough to resolve. Ironically, this accident was a terrible year much later that he finally gave the focus he needed to change his life. One night, while high, he fell on the subway tracks, landing on the third rail power. His face was mostly burned, making it impossible for him to eat or speak normallyâ? Or go outside without people or just cry. He dealt with this pain for a few years to the news that their lives have changed.

The game is the emotional story of how cutting the seemingly disparate lives of Joseph and James Maki Helfgot came. It puts you in Susana? Instead, as it is with the difficult decision to donate her husband confronted? Face, and how this choice affects all parties involved. It takes you into the operating room? With a camera crew for ABC News? MEDA documentary series was in Boston? during the emotional moment Jima? s new face begins to pale green to pink, indicating to make success. And he provides all those whose lives through this unique event, an employee of the Bank, the organ unthinkable to ask a question at the top Pomahac, Ph.D. had changed to get help Brigham and rubber boots rain boots? S transplanted to a hospital for the Department of Defense grant for future face. Ultimately, this daring operation has more than one man to handle, she was in a strange family, now closely linked with a target of fans to raise awareness of organ donation

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Helfgot Susan Whitman tells the story as only an insider, a mosaic of moments reveals life behind the scenes and catch. The game is second to none to a medical miracle? And the courage and the generosity of the people who made it possible.

Helfgot and the game is available at www.thematchstory.com, www.facebook.com his / thematchstory, www.twitter.com / thematchstory and http://authors.simonandschuster.com/Susan-Whitman – Helfgot

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