Tom N. Robbins has written several articles for TI Life - often illustrated by his sister Sarah Coate. Read the title slowly and you realized this is not a novel, not poetry but a book about a most serious subject.  This very personal journal pays tribute to all those in the medical field who enabled Tom to live.

Tom has given his friends and our TI Life readers several stories these past few years. We thank him most sincerely. His memories will last. Now he gives us a gift that is a difficult one, but one that may help in its own way.

You be the judge.