Influences, contributors to the story, and help along the way: Houeida Saad, Monika and Anouk Jaquier and the entire Anencephaly.info Facebook Group community, Allison and Faith Andrews, Cyndi and Morgan Barnett, Tania Ponomarenko, Adam Foster, Jay and Clarice Gibson, Ozan Williams, Azian Zain, Anna Whiston-Donaldson, Sophia Smith, Emily Berman, Tony Zwerdling and Ginger Vowell, Deb Weisshaar, Min Tak, Jane Jamieson, and Caitriona Palmer.
The entire AATB staff, especially Frank Wilton, Scott Brubaker, Jenny Chatman, and Veronica Escalona.
To those who donated the blood and blood products that I received during childbirth (Inova Blood Bank Donor IDs #: W0B9810002415, W089810002346, W089810602156, W089810201081, W083210000091, W089810602001, and W089809453744), thank you for donating the blood that saved my life. I hope to meet you all and thank you in person.
My amazing family and friends who endured it all with us, especially Suzanne Rydel and the entire Hughes family, Mark and Jennifer Walpole, Ethan Walpole, James and Cathy Walpole and the entire Walpole family, Bob Rydel2 and family, Pauline and Eddie Gray and family, Julia and Garry Mountford, Susan Pollack, and Melanie and Chris Parks.
My children, Callum and Jocelyn. I hope you can always feel me hugging you.
And the other person who experienced this with me, my husband, Ross. I’m so glad to have you by my side.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
SARAH GRAY is an organ, eye, and tissue donation advocate and a public speaker. She is the director of communications for the American Association of Tissue Banks in McLean, Virginia. She lives in Washington, DC, with her husband, Ross, and their children, Callum and Jocelyn.
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A LIFE EVERLASTING. Copyright © 2016 by Sarah Gray. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Gray, Sarah, 1973- author.
Title: A life everlasting: the extraordinary story of one boy’s gift to medical science / Sarah Gray.
Description: New York, NY: HarperOne, 2016.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016011725| ISBN 9780062438225 (hardback) | ISBN 9780062563484 (audio)
EPub Edition August 2016 ISBN 9780062438249
Subjects: LCSH: Gray, Sarah, 1973—Health. | Gray, Thomas Ethan—Health. | Anencephaly—Patients—Biography. | Mother and infant—United States—Biography. | Organ donors—Biography. | BISAC: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs. | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Medical. | MEDICAL / Research.
Classification: LCC QM695.B7 G73 2016 | DDC 362.196830092 [B] — dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016011725
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