There are no diseases, there are patients.
In his words Hippocrates in my mind I read these five wonderful stories from a sensitive person, a nephrologist, who with his book enlightens the general public about the real problem of the process of organ donation and the positive result of transplantation.
The aim of the book is to make people aware and to help in the face of the serious problem of the donation process and for the specialty in question, kidney transplantation.
The stories are based on the experiences received by the doctor Theodoros Khiras and through a skillful speech as a writer they were rendered masterfully with literary fiction in order to give the ultimate information and of course the identification with the protagonists.
Through the short stories, the difficulties that the patients face in their daily life are shown. Five life stories, among the hundreds, can be found on the pages of Theodoros Ch. Widow, "You bestow the mysteries"
Five stories of people given in perfect literary rendering that touches every emotion in the reader. The great emotional charge for the struggle of the true heroes of life from the narratives of the doctor-author, who with absolute sensitivity in all five of his true stories, records and communicates to us not only the knowledge about the importance of organ donation, but also the struggle of the emotional and hypersensitive mental changing world of his heroes, as in every obstacle, in every stage of trial and after every battle they fight, they redefine the values of life, overcome their limits and endurances, fight for the self-evident, the health, giving true importance, even to its most insignificant detail. Because the love of life has enormous power and wants to prevail.
Kidney disease is a serious ordeal. It tests every relationship of the patient, initially with himself, which measures his psychosomatic endurance and then the relationships with others are tested through the difficulties presented.
Heroes alive, people next door, marching with vigor through the core of their being with emotional stoicism confronting everything difficult and often painful by going to great lengths to suppress any possible negative outcome that overwhelms their thoughts from the fiery knowledge they acquire through of their disease, and sets them primarily before and within themselves, to measure the stages of their illness against the measured time that narrows the margins; and often in moments of emotional charge, feelings are vented, fading from their souls the sweet and ever-desiring arrogance of healthy.
By reading these tender stories, the reader is sure to bond, identify with the heroes in unbreakable bonds. In all five life stories, full of anguish, pain and complaint, but also determination, patience and mental greatness, the protagonists with a constant question, why life was not given to them, it becomes evident how important it is to find a transplant that will give them the normal life of a healthy person.
The Mysteries of the Gift is a book overflowing with sensitivity and completely understandable with the wonderful and simple words of the physician-author and Human Theodoros Khiras, with the intention of making us communicants in cases of people who struggle with courage and perseverance to conquer what fellow human beings they take it for granted. Health.
The work is ultimately optimistic, even in the losses or the randomness that manifests itself in the lives of the heroes, as the doctor as a writer illuminates the path of their emotions, wanting to remind us through his rich scientific experience and his direct speech, that the life is one and its heroes deserve to live it, to absorb every bit of it sweet or bitter, cold or hot, beautiful or ugly, fake or real.
While the book refers to difficult parts of life at the same time, all five descriptions close their conclusion leaving us full of unrestrained optimism and the realization that organ donation is a gift sent by God.
The message he gives us in the book is clear. To open our minds and accept that organ donation saves lives.
Ο doctor Theodoros Khiras, as an author, informs us that organ donation and human-to-human transplants are imperative, a great act that gives life. This donation is the only way to break the wall that is erected and prevents the good life in the lives of some of our fellow human beings.
And as the author says in his foreword: The goal of the book is to be a hymn to donation and organ donation. An anthem for transplantation and life itself.
