Chapter One
In Tyler Šajkák’s essay, this is what made him feel different.
What is “his voice”?
This is the author whose essay is about how his CHD defines him.
Who is Jason Crutchley?
This is one of the sports Michael Hills participated in when growing up with HLHS.
What is: curling, figure skating, or baseball?
This is the name of one of the 3 countries the authors came from in Chapter 4.
What is Venezuela, Egypt, or Vietnam?
What Book Study Session 1 participant could relate to Megan’s essay ‘Picasso’ because of the diagnosis of scoliosis later in life?
Who is Jason Crutchley?
Of the 2 poems in Chapter 1, this author wrote about feeling different.
Who is Dajah Scrivener?
This is the profession author Christy Sillman entered into as a means of serving the CHD community.
What is nursing?
Megan Tones wrote about visiting this country and obtaining insurance to do so.
What is Egypt?
This is what prevented author Amy M. Le’s mother from getting help for her CHD sooner.
What was the Vietnam War?
When Megan Tones read Michael McKelvey’s poem, she felt that he summed up very well that this condition simply wasn’t going to go away.
What is having a CHD?
This is the place where Laura Ryan came to realize her scar was nothing to be ashamed of.
What is the water park in Lancaster?
In Hope Jaworski’s essay, this is the term she said she’s doesn’t identify with.
What is “Heart Warrior”?
In Lorrie Hill’s essay, she wrote about having to abandon the dream of obtaining a degree in this field of study due to her heart condition.
What was being a physical therapist?
This is the person who helped Amy M. Le find her fierce.
Who was her mother?
This Book Study Session #2 participant said that sometimes people are warriors because they don’t have a choice and they’d be dead if they didn’t fight, so that’s what being a “heart warrior” meant to him.
Who is Frank Jaworski?
In ‘A Soul Unbroken,’ this author shared her experiences with bullying.
Who is Jeni Busta?
This is the organization Christy Sillman discovered when she was pregnant that provided her with information about being an adult with a CHD and a whole new community.
What is the ACHA—Adult Congenital Heart Association?
'Journal Entries' by Alicia Lynch opened with the author talking about this type of arrhythmia.
What is tachycardia?
This was the means by which Ellen Banoub believed her heart defect would be cured.
What is by touching the robe of an actor playing Jesus in a church play?
This is something that Frank and Hope Jaworski talked about in Book Study Session #3 and the condition they both have had which they said they didn’t feel.
What is an arrhythmia?
This is the non-CHD medical condition written about in the essay, ‘Picasso.’
What is scoliosis?
In 2005, the American Red Cross asked for volunteers, and Jason Crutchley donated his time and talent to help victims of this natural disaster.
What was Hurricane Katrina?
This is the drug Megan Tones took every morning at 5 AM to have out of her system before setting out on explorations during her trip abroad.
What is Lasix?
This is the name of the nonprofit organization Belén created to provide help to the people with CHDs in Venezuela.
What is Estrellita de Belén?
In the 3rd Book Study Session, Eileen Pearlman stated that this event is what spurred her daughter, Jessica, to write her book, “The Hearts of a Girl.”
What is having a kidney transplant?
Or
What is receiving a kidney from her sister, Amy?