Liverwurst - Work Made at the Onset of End-stage Liver Failure Until Live-donor Organ Transplantation (December 2007-June 2009) (Paperback)

"The process of transplantation is a grueling one- demanding physical participation in a battery of tests and procedures as well as an emotional commitment to oneself and acceptance of the unknown. This is a beautiful catalogue of stories, photographs and drawings that tell Ella's story of chronic illness and her journey towards transplant. Throughout this process she demonstrates a remarkable spirit and strength despite loss, illness and ever present chance of dying. Through her art and words she provides a window into her soul as she faces her own mortality with grace, maturity and humor." ---Ariana Rose, Nurse Practitioner "The remarkable hospital sketchbook of artist Ella Watson chronicles her two year crisis battling end-stage liver failure. A young woman in need of an organ transplant, with no insurance, no money, no parents, no safety net: in drawing after luminous drawing she tells the story. It is a graphic tour de force. Her body inside and out, breached and cut open, perforated with tubes and pumps, fever dreams in emergency rooms, portraits of fellow patients, life-giving nurses, latex- gloved hands, monitors, pills, syringes, clocks (above all clocks): a gurney-eye tour of intensive care. She wins passage through the disintegrating U.S. social welfare system, through the veil of pain and time, doing the thing she knows best: drawing and writing for her life. Her eye and steady hand miss nothing. Ella captures -- for her doctors, for her brother and sisters, for us, and for art -- the misery and triumph of the life urge." ---Elizabeth King, Sculpture Department, Virginia Commonwealth University

General

Imprint:	Authorhouse
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2011
First published:	October 2011
Authors:	Ella F B Watson
Dimensions:	280 x 216 x 5mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	76
ISBN-13:	978-1-4634-0398-0
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Science, technology & engineering Books > Medicine > General issues > General Books > Biography > Science, technology & engineering
LSN:	1-4634-0398-4
Barcode:	9781463403980

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