{"id":1635,"date":"2014-09-08T17:09:46","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T17:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/?p=1635"},"modified":"2014-10-08T17:10:29","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T17:10:29","slug":"ernest-kroeker-writes-book-on-sons-heart-transplant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/2014\/09\/08\/ernest-kroeker-writes-book-on-sons-heart-transplant\/","title":{"rendered":"Ernest Kroeker writes book on son\u2019s heart transplant"},"content":{"rendered":"

Taken from UFV Announce, August 25, 2014<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Retired biology professor\u00a0<\/span>Ernest Kroeker<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>has written a book titled\u00a0<\/span>Infinite Resignation: The Art of an Infant Heart Transplant\u00a0<\/span><\/em>about his family\u2019s experience with the infant heart transplant.<\/p>\n

\"kroeker-book\"<\/a>Introduction:<\/p>\n

When the surgeons informed us that our unborn child had a fatal heart condition I was devastated. The only hope they offered was an infant transplant which was not only experimental but it was also unlikely that a donor organ would be found in time.<\/em><\/p>\n

Five years earlier Dr. Leonard Bailey had rocked the world when he transplanted the heart of a baboon into a human baby. He went on to pioneer an infant transplant program but it was still very much in its infancy. The medical community was deeply divided on questions related to the ethics and efficacy of this approach. I came to the conclusion that a decision for or against a transplant would need to be based entirely on faith.<\/em><\/p>\n

I was ill-equipped to perform an act of faith but I remembered studying Kierkegaard in my first year at university. In his book, Fear and Trembling, he asserts that the first movement of faith is Infinite Resignation.<\/em><\/p>\n

Starting with my own very tentative movements of Infinite Resignation and progressing toward Moriah \u2013 this is a very personal story of an odyssey to save the life of our son.<\/em><\/p>\n

Read more about the book:\u00a0 friesenpress.com\/bookstore\/title\/119734000005877263<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Taken from UFV Announce, August 25, 2014 Retired biology professor\u00a0Ernest Kroeker\u00a0has written a book titled\u00a0Infinite Resignation: The Art of an Infant Heart Transplant\u00a0about his family\u2019s experience with the infant heart transplant. Introduction: When the surgeons informed us that our unborn child had a fatal heart condition I was devastated. The only hope they offered was … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":1636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biology","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1635"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1638,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635\/revisions\/1638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}