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    Sweet Sour Bitter
    Sweet Sour Bitter
    Sweet Sour Bitter
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    Sweet Sour Bitter

    By Janie Whitlock

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    What do you bring to a friendship? What do you have to give? What do you need that only friendship can provide? In Sweet Sour Bitter: A Tale of a Friendship, a Transplant, and a Lemonade Stand, lifelong friends tell their story of how an impending liver transplant shaped their lives.. It isn’t a manual on how to be a friend or how to bear illness, or how to be a caregiver. It's not an inspirational story of triumph against a debilitating physical illness--we, the co-authors don’t even know how that part ends. It’s an offering to our readers, a tale that we hope will inspire them to see the richness of their own stories, friendships, and lives.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJanie Whitlock
    Release dateJul 6, 2014
    ISBN9781310278167
    Sweet Sour Bitter
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    Janie Whitlock

    Janie Whitlock was born with the liver disease, Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis. It was diagnosed in 1985 when Janie was 22. Her PSC was mostly asymptomatic until 2013 when she had to spend January in the hospital. Florida has been good for her health. Mayo Transplant Center in Jacksonville is following her case.Due to the slow progression of the disease Janie has had the opportunity to get further education and had a short career in Film. For 10 years she lived on a farm in TN. and learned to preserve fruit and vegetables. In TN, she wrote for a local magazine whose primary goal was to promote sustainability.Lisa Yarnell and Janie wrote this book as a way to thank people for donations to the medical expense fund at:http://www.gofundme.com/8ms4q4

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      Book preview

      Sweet Sour Bitter - Janie Whitlock

      Sweet Sour Bitter

      by Janie Whitlock and Lisa Woods Yarnell

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2014

      Janie Whitlock and Lisa Woods Yarnell

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to your favorite ebook retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of these authors.

      Dedication (Janie)

      For Frau Mona,

      The sweet in my bitter

      Table of Contents

      First Thoughts

      Foreword (Lisa)

      Foreword (Janie)

      Meeting (Lisa)

      Meeting (Janie)

      Finding Out (Lisa)

      Finding Out (Janie)

      Whiling Away (Lisa)

      Whiling Away (Janie)

      Hot in Port Saint John (Lisa)

      Hot in Port Saint John (Janie)

      Hospitals (Lisa)

      Hospitals (Janie)

      Decompensation and Supplication (Lisa)

      Decompensation and Supplication (Janie)

      Final Chapter (Lisa)

      Final Chapter (Janie)

      The Stand

      Thank You (Janie)

      Thank You (Lisa)

      First Thoughts

      "Novels and stories are renderings of life; they cannot only keep us company, but admonish us, point us in new directions, or give us the courage to stay a given course. They can offer us kinsmen, kinswomen, comrades, advisors — offer us other eyes through which we might see."

      --Robert Coles, The Call of Stories: Teaching and the Moral Imagination

      "We read to know that we are not alone."

      --from the film Shadowlands

      Foreword (Lisa)

      What is this story? I ask myself, pondering strategies to invite you to read it. Although we begin with the friendship of two former film students, it’s not the rollicking adventure of two college friends who met, had all sorts of daring fun, and then soared to the top of their respective glamorous careers in film. And, much as we’d like it to be, it’s not an inspirational story of triumph against a debilitating physical illness -- we, the co-authors don’t even know how that part ends.

      The story is an offering -- a rendering, as Robert Coles calls it. It’s like the sketch of an arguing couple in the rain on a city street that catches your eye in an art shop and provides a moment to ponder one of the particular and insidious curves in the universe that appear to shape a life, or two lives, or a community of lives.

      Some of what we are is shaped by vast and destructive events--- like a wild storm that leaves devastation in a forest grove. The storm uproots trees; it squashes delicate things, leaving them torn, faded, and gone. Or a life can be formed more subtly in a gentler cycle of sunshine, rain, and wind, that over many years cause a gray branch to grow out, then up, then to curl around and turn the other way. You find yourself in the forest touching that branch, wondering at what must have happened, thinking how clever it was to make that shape.

      Chronic illness and a looming liver transplant helped shape our lives and our friendship. Here is the telling of that. To reach for another metaphor, we hope that maybe you can use the story as a banister of sorts--something firm to hold onto while climbing your own steep and unpredictable set of stairs.

      Foreword (Janie)

      Lisa has been a part of my life for a long time. I’ve known her longer than the time when I haven't. When I became separated she said, Move in. Stay as long as you’d like, I knew she meant it. When she offered to be my caregiver before and after a transplant, I knew she meant it. Lisa, in fact, knew more about my various health issues than I did. There were times I didn’t want to be defined by so many medical terms. For years, because I could, I turned my face away from the inevitable.

      I have always asked doctors what I should expect next. Forewarned is forearmed. I was never forewarned. Doctors would be surprised at what happened again and again. And Lisa would be back at her computer piecing information together as the doctors pieced together my parts. Lisa traveled distances in the snow or rain to fetch me from the ICU's and ER's. She also sent me internet links...and links...and links.

      I was a bit nonplussed by how the transplant center took the news when I named Lisa as my primary caregiver for the ultimate procedure. Naming such a person is a requirement for being in most transplant programs. Lisa and I aren’t married, not life partners in the traditional, or the non-traditional, sense. The clinic that accepted me for their program (hereinafter to be called The Big Clinic) seemed to feel that "best friends

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