A Table in the Wilderness (Young-Lee)

, 59

Adolescents and Young Adults (AYA)

, 1–2

Alice Walker

, 68

Anti-narrative

, 53

Arthur W. Frank

, 4–5, 7–8, 53, 64

Arts and Public Health

, 41

Biopsies

, 43–45

Bodies

, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10, 14, 23, 69, 81–84, 116

Bolton, Gillie

, 6

Brewer, Ken

, 89

Buried Self

, 31–32

Camp Kostopulos

, x, 4, 29, 108, 115

Capture the Flag (game)

, 17

Challenge America Project

, 2–4

Chaos narrative

, 53

Childhood nicknames

, 13–15

Clifton, Lucille

, 89

Co-morbidity

, 64–65

Color Purple, The (Alice Walker)

, 68

Confidence

, 52, 75, 118

Courage

, 37, 75, 88, 109, 113, 119

Creative writing

, 4–5, 56

Creativity

, 4, 7, 17

Death

, 2, 39–40, 47, 90, 99–101, 108

Depression

, 7, 68

Dialysis

, 10, 35, 47–49, 64, 65, 70, 83–84, 94, 97, 115, 118–119

Dieticians

, 93

Diets

, 35, 71

Disability studies

, 1, 91

Donald J. Hall

, 53

Dreams

, 26, 93–97, 99–101

Driving

, 25–27

Emotion

, 2, 7, 11, 30, 32, 40, 48, 52–53, 64, 68, 84, 90, 96, 101, 110

Erving Goffman

, 89–90

Expressive writing

, 52–53

Fear

, 36, 90, 94, 96, 99, 101, 108

Generosity

, 107–108

Gratitude

, 3, 96–97

Gregory Orr

, 5, 29, 32, 68, 89

Healing

, 1, 3, 26, 53, 62, 75, 107–108, 119

Healing Art: A Doctor’s Black Bag of Poetry, The (Campo)

, 1, 7, 44, 49, 62, 100

Hirsh, Edward

, 52

Hospital administrators

, 93

I’m in Charge of Celebrations (Baylor)

, 55

Identity

, 1–2, 8, 11, 75, 118

Illness

, 1–2, 10, 14–16, 44, 49, 53, 61, 64, 93, 117–118, 119

Independence

, 26, 64

Intermountain Donor Services (IDS)

, 109–110

Jack Collom

, 4

James Pennebaker

, 7, 52–53

Joan Gardner

, 18

Language

, 4, 54, 57, 84, 109, 119

Lerita M. Coleman Brown

, 90–91

Li Young-Lee

, 59

Library Square

, 111

Life expectancy

, 100, 113–114

Local anesthesia

, 44–45

Locker rooms

, 81–82, 89

Lockers

, 81

Louise DeSalvo

, 7, 19, 56–57, 68, 75, 100–101

Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

, 1

Measuring pain

, 47

Medical experiences

, 69–70

Medical students

, x, 3–4, 41, 44, 93

Medical trainees

, 2–3

“Medically complex” pediatric patients

, 11

Metaphors

, 5–6, 23–24, 49

Miracle-like

, 118

definition

, 3, 18

chapbook

, 18, 103, 110

Mortality

, 4, 8, 27, 64–65, 90, 118

Mothers

, 59–60

Music

, 24, 78

Names

, 13

Narrative

, 1

chaos narrative

, 53

illness narrative

, 1, 3, 6–7, 113

restitution narrative

, 63–64

Narrative ethics

, 7–8

Narrative Medicine: Honoring the Stories of Illness (Charon)

, 7–8, 45, 93

National Endowment for the Arts

, 3, 10, 51

National Kidney Foundation of Utah and Idaho

, 2–4, 9–10, 108

Normal

, 3–4, 14, 35, 64–66, 73, 95–96

Nouwen, Henri J. M.

, 75

Nurses

, 44, 93

Old Cardiology Dream, The (Ron Charach)

, 94–95

Organ transplant

, x, 2–4, 10, 64, 90, 111, 113–114

Pamela Grant

, 2–3, 35

Patient Voices: Illness from Inside Out (McEntyre)

, 1

Personal lyric

, 5, 7–8, 31–32

Physicians

, 1, 3, 4–5, 11, 35, 45, 64, 65, 68, 93

Poetry

, 1, 3, 4, 7, 9, 17, 18, 49, 54, 100, 107–108, 119

alliteration

, 55

concrete poem

, 74

definition

, 4

list poem

, 63–64

lyric poem

, 29, 52, 54

personal lyric

, 5, 7–8, 31–32, 68

revision

, 6, 84

sound

, 5–6, 18

transformative lyric

, 5

word choice

, 57

Poetry as Survival (Orr)

, 5, 29, 32, 68, 89

Poetry Everywhere (Collom and Noethe)

, 4

Posttransplant life

, x, 2–3, 10, 25, 40

Prednisone

, 10–11

Primary Children’s Hospital

, 39, 44, 61

Prison metaphor

, 48

Psychosocial needs

, 1–2

Rafael Campo

, 1, 7, 44, 49, 62, 100

Responsibility

, 27, 68, 96

social responsibility

, 8

Restitution narrative

, 63–64

Rita Charon

, 7, 45, 93

Robert Hass

, 5–6

Rosanna Warren

, 6

Rosemary Garland-Thomson

, 91

Runaway with Words (Gardner)

, 18

Salt Lake City

, 2–3, 61, 77, 103, 111–112, 114–115

Hilton Hotel

, 110

Scars

, 22, 66, 75, 85–90, 103, 108

Self-image

, 74

Sexuality

, 23–24

Social work

, 2, 6, 10–11, 19, 35, 39, 47, 93, 115, 117, 119

Song lyrics

, 78

Sports

, 83–84

Stigma

, 89–91

Stigmatization

, 90–91

Suffering

, 7, 45, 54, 75, 91, 93, 95, 116

Surgery

, 3, 9–11, 13–16, 40, 44, 45, 64–65, 90, 96, 110–111, 113, 114, 115

Survival

, 10, 29–30, 113, 116

Survivor guilt

, 19

Teaching moments

, 5–6

Teens

, 23–24, 26, 37

with chronic illnesses

, 2, 10, 44

That Intern Dream (Jack Coulehan)

, 94–95

Therapeutic value of poetry

, 6, 107–108

Time

, 53, 60, 65, 111, 114

Today Show, The

, 10

Transformative lyric

, 5

Transplants

, 3, 10–11, 14, 19, 26, 30, 35, 48, 61, 64, 85, 89, 100, 111, 113

Uintah Basin Standard

, 108

University of Utah Health

, 35

University of Utah Hospital

, 2–3

University of Utah student union

, 103

Utah Arts Council

, 2–4, 10, 51

Visual activism

, 91

Waiting room

, 63–64

Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness, and Ethics, The (Frank)

, 4–5, 7–8, 53, 64

Writing as a Way of Healing: How Telling Our Stories Transforms Our Lives (DeSalvo)

, 7, 19, 56–57, 68, 75, 100

Youth Transplant Kamp (YTK)

, 2–4, 6, 10, 29–30, 35, 49, 57, 85, 89, 103, 108, 112

application to

, 35