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    Blood Brother: A Memoir
    Blood Brother: A Memoir
    Blood Brother: A Memoir
    Audiobook8 hours

    Blood Brother: A Memoir

    Written by Susan Keller

    Narrated by Lexi Mae

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    About this audiobook

    As a happily married, fifty-five-year-old professional woman, Susan had it all—or thought she did—until the day of her shocking diagnosis with stage IV Mantle Cell Lymphoma, a rare and aggressive disease. Ninety-eight percent of her bone marrow was cancerous, and a heart attack or brain aneurism was imminent. Within minutes of being admitted to the hospital, her beautifully ordinary life disappeared.



    Facing a possible death sentence, Susan experienced visions so lucid and beautiful that she imagined she was looking into the foyer of death or a magnificent afterlife. Her mind and body melded into all that surrounded her. Bliss replaced all fear.



    But during the darkest moments, Susan questioned the nature of mortality. Does death have the same shape, sound, and feeling for everyone? Did the father she yearned for think of her the moment he died? What would she think of? Would there be regret, celebration, or nothingness?



    After months of grueling inpatient chemo, she faced another seemingly impossible hurdle. To live, she needed a stem cell transplant. But Johnny—her brilliant, off-the-grid brother—was the only possible donor. He hadn't been heard from in thirty years.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateNov 23, 2021
    ISBN9781666180305
    Blood Brother: A Memoir
    Author

    Susan Keller

    Susan Keller was an award-winning medical writer for nearly three decades. Her poetry has taken prizes in regional and national contests. She has a degree in Public Health and Immunology from U. C. Berkeley. Her background in science as well as poetry make the voice in her first book, Blood Brother: A Memoir, both lyric as well as credible. The tagline: Johnny's bone marrow could save my life, but he'd vanished thirty years ago. "Mostly Sober: A Love Story and a Road Trip," her second book, melds self-help and romance. Susan lives in the Bay Area with her husband, Daniel.

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