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A Human Deadline
A Story Of Life, Death, Hope and House Arrest.
We were in the doctor's office and it sounded like something out of a B Grade movie when I 'Give it to me straight ... how long have I got?'
He'd just told me I had cancer, compounded by advanced cirrhosis of the liver. The doctor's 'Twelve months'. There was a chance I could live longer if I could get a rare liver transplant but there were hurdles to get over just to get on The List. I knew that, at any time, there are about 2000 Australians waiting for organ donors to save their lives. And 20% die waiting.
To complicate things, I was fighting another battle. This one in the courts where I faced a jail sentence for a 'Name Them, Shame Them' campaign which climaxed when I named two serial sex offenders whose identities had been suppressed.
A traumatic eight months after making The List, I received a new liver and a new life. Two weeks after surgery I limped into court to be sentenced to five months under house arrest. There were also allegations I had 'jumped the queue' and didn't deserve an organ transplant because Iíd been a drinker.
In this book, I try to honestly answer all those questions and more. One thing's for It was a helluva year.
Derryn Hinch.
We were in the doctor's office and it sounded like something out of a B Grade movie when I 'Give it to me straight ... how long have I got?'
He'd just told me I had cancer, compounded by advanced cirrhosis of the liver. The doctor's 'Twelve months'. There was a chance I could live longer if I could get a rare liver transplant but there were hurdles to get over just to get on The List. I knew that, at any time, there are about 2000 Australians waiting for organ donors to save their lives. And 20% die waiting.
To complicate things, I was fighting another battle. This one in the courts where I faced a jail sentence for a 'Name Them, Shame Them' campaign which climaxed when I named two serial sex offenders whose identities had been suppressed.
A traumatic eight months after making The List, I received a new liver and a new life. Two weeks after surgery I limped into court to be sentenced to five months under house arrest. There were also allegations I had 'jumped the queue' and didn't deserve an organ transplant because Iíd been a drinker.
In this book, I try to honestly answer all those questions and more. One thing's for It was a helluva year.
Derryn Hinch.
636 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 31, 2012
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January 8, 2017
After meeting Derryn and having dinner with him last year I just HAD to read this book. I wanted to know more about him. The way he treated everybody that approached that night was amazing. Everyone was special and he loved spending time talking to them. This book was an eye opener. There was so much I didn't know about him. A fantastic advocate for organ donation!
November 25, 2016
Not what I was expecting. For some reason I thought it would tell Hinch's story over his 50 years in the media - my fault, I read the title as Human Headline not Deadline! But an interesting read on his liver transplant and his work for Donatelife
April 21, 2014
Honest.
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