My Ebenezer

Don’t worry, sis, this one isn’t about you.

My mom gave me a book the other day by Jodi Picoult with this title. What an amazing read! Though I have to say that I was a little ticked off at mom when I finished the book – I don’t want to spoil it if you haven’t read it so I won’t say why.

The book is about a family inching their way through days and then years of waiting for one daughter to die from Leukemia while they fight the disease using another daughter. The second daughter was conceived very carefully and unnaturally by geneticists who were able to determine an exact match for the ailing sister. In other words, they conceived one child to save another. What was initially supposed to be only cord blood donation turned into multiple blood transfusions, bone marrow transplants and finally, the battle over kidney donation.

The main character of the story is the “donor daughter” and her journey to medically emancipate herself from her parents. I don’t want to give the whole story away, but this is a book that definitely kept me reading way past midnight. It was like watching a train wreck in a slow motion but you become so intrigued you just can’t look away. It was a very interesting way to address a hot topic in our medical community.

It’s one you should definitely check out.