AN ARROW THROUGH THE HEART: ONE WOMAN’S STORY OF LIFE，LOVE，AND SURVIVING A NEAR-FATAL HEART ATTACK
Book ID/图书代码： 0498.0004B04594
English Summary/英文概要： What if, like most women, you were overwhelmed by the struggle to balance work and family? So you did everything to be healthy and stress-free -- ate right, kept fit, never smoked, practiced yoga. And what if, out of the blue, your body betrayed you?
Like most American women, Deborah Daw Heffernan worried about breast cancer, not heart disease, the nation’s number-one killer of women. Yet on May 12, 1997, Deborah, a slim and health-conscious executive in her mid-forties, was stricken by a near-fatal heart attack in her weekly yoga class. There was no warning and no family history of heart disease. There was only the sudden explosion inside her chest. After emergency surgery and a harrowing string of complications, Deborah faced a long and uncertain recovery, overshadowed by the looming prospect of a heart transplant.
An Arrow Through the Heart is her unflinching, soulful, and surprisingly funny chronicle of that first year -- which might easily have been her last. Anchored by the rugged landscape of Maine, by the fierce love of her husband, and by their two estranged families, who dropped everything to rally around her, she learned to do simple things all over again, one breath at a time. Ultimately, it was a year of healing both body and soul, of "finding meaning everywhere, like Easter eggs."
This book is about how illness, oddly enough, can give life back to us. For the tens of thousands with cardiac disease, it will be a welcome companion on the road to recovery. For the rest of us, Deborah offers a powerful testament to the unexpected joy that can come from living in a state of impermanence.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 毫無預警，惡夢就這麼降臨了… 毫無預警，惡夢就這麼的降臨了…
98年國人十大死因統計出爐，癌症還是連續第27年蟬聯榜首，其次分別為心臟和腦血管疾病…
黛博拉喜吃蔬果，從不抽煙，身體不但健康還擁有曼妙身材，家族也沒有心臟病史。
但在44歲那年，就在她每週的瑜珈課上，黛博拉心臟病發。
歷經多次緊急手術和併發症後，黛博拉的心臟仍跳動著，但皮膚底下卻埋了一顆去纖顫器，而且未來還可能必須進行心臟移植手術。
本書一開始記錄了病情的發生經過，接著作者傾吐自己在瀕臨死亡後的情緒轉折，包含困惑、絕望、繼而回到現實，到「發現生活的點滴美好」…
當家人聚集在她身邊，包括她丈夫一起給予黛博拉堅定不移的愛與支持，黛博拉開始重新學習基本生活能力。一次換氣，她可以重獲力量爬一段樓梯，在社區周圍步行，甚至可以再繼續她的瑜珈修行。
一直以來，她很清楚地知道：一次要命的心律失常就可能導致她心臟病發作。
5年過去，黛博拉很神奇地沒有進行任何心臟移植手術。而在這之前，醫生曾預言她得做兩次手術…
黛博拉的故事是一個關於心靈和身體同步邁向復原的故事。作者黛博拉從不敢相信自己可以醒著看到第二天早晨的太陽，但她發現奇蹟無所不在。她在無法自由行動期間，更研究了佛家關於死亡的觀點，也不再對過去的痛苦耿耿於懷。
儘管心臟病發後，黛博拉的一切行動受到嚴格限制，但最後她卻漸漸覺得自己的天地竟因此無限寬廣了起來…(Kate Cheng)
Awards/获奖情况：相關報導：
對付最難測的心臟病：
http://www.books.com.tw/magazine/item/chealth1218.htm
心臟病 銀髮族女性健康頭號隱形殺手：
http://n.yam.com/uho/healthy/201002/20100222458892.html
公視：衛生署公布國人最新的十大死因，心臟病排名第二：
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuUQf97sxiY
美國公布十大死因 心臟病為頭號殺手：
http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/jw!QyxVWEufGRqHLCg_drOYzhwr/article?mid=354
Despite her apparent good health, in May 1997, Heffernan suffered a massive heart attack during a yoga class. Proximity to a Cambridge, Mass., hospital and the swift response of rescue workers saved her initially. Emergency double bypass surgery and the subsequent implantation of a defibrillator has allowed her to survive for the past five years. Surprisingly, Heffernan was relatively young (44), physically fit and a nonsmoker with low cholesterol who adhered to a nutritious diet when her heart failed her. In this insightful and openly emotional account, Heffernan details her illness and the life changes that occurred afterward. Happily married since 1989 to Jack, 13 years older with five grown children, Heffernan saw her relationship with her husband grow even stronger as he became her caregiver during a lengthy convalescence. Heffernan gave up her high-pressure job as a corporate training executive, and she and Jack moved permanently from Cambridge to their peaceful Maine vacation home. The author’s enforced period of inactivity forged links with Jack’s children, who had formerly been distant from their father’s new wife, and she became closer to her sisters. Although her heart has been severely damaged and a transplant may eventually be needed, Heffernan nicely describes how she has found peace of mind and a new pleasure in daily living because of this unexpected brush with death. ---From Publishers Weekly
About the Author/作者介绍： Deborah Daw Heffernan graduated from Georgetown University and the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She has worked as a teacher at the École d’Humanité in Switzerland, as an associate dean of The Program in Artisanry at Boston University, and as a freelance writer. In 1983 she became vice president of a corporate training enterprise in Boston and, over the next fourteen years, helped develop it into one of the top companies in its field -- until May 12, 1997, the day that changed her life forever. She lives with her husband in western Maine.
黛博拉·道·赫芬南 ( Deborah Daw Heffernan ) 毕业于乔治敦大学和哈佛教育学院。做过瑞士Ecole d’Humanite 的教师，波斯顿大学手工艺教程的助理辅导主任和自由作家。 1983 年成为波士顿一家培训公司的副总裁， 此后14年里，直至1997年5月12日，她致力于发展该公司成为本领域内的顶尖公司之一。 那一天也永远改变了她的生活。 现在她与丈夫住在缅因州的西部地区。
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