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In this moving memoir about the energy of camaraderie and the resilience of the human being heart, Amy Silverstein says the storyline of the astonishing band of women who supported her as she waited on the precipice for a life-saving center transplant. Nearly 26 years after getting her first center transplant, Amy Silverstein's donor center plummeted into failing. If she wished to live, she possessed to take on the grueling search for a new center - immediately. A go at survival supposed uprooting her life and moving in the united states to California. When her friends heard about her plans, there is only one response: "I'm there." Nine remarkable women - Delight, Jill, Leja, Jody, Lauren, Robin, Valerie, Ann, and Jane - put demanding jobs and pressing family commitments on hold to fly in the united states and become by Amy's part. Building a calendar spreadsheet, the women - a few of them strangers one to the other - handed the baton of camaraderie, one to the next, and headed directly and strong into the battle to help save Amy's life. Empowered by the sort of empathy that can only grow with age group, these women, each knowing Amy from different levels of her life, banded mutually to provide her with something that drugs alone could not. Sleeping on a cot beside her bed, they rubbed her back and ft when the pain was unbearable, adorned her room with death-distracting decor, and engaged in their "best talks ever". They noticed the true way of measuring 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 extreme hours they spent together - hours of heightened feeling 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 best importance of "showing up" for those we love.
