A single phone call changes everything. Three days later, Kleo, a typical 21-year-old girl, is back on the surgery table. Another open-heart surgery. Shes no stranger to hospital stays, but this procedure is different: bigger, more dangerous, more final. Between beeping monitors, white walls, and constant fear, Kleo struggles with a reality that wont let her escape. Only in brief messages with her best friend and other close friends does a sense of normality return, before the next procedure, the next examination, the next sleepless night follows. text me after surgery tells the true story of a young woman who is confronted with her own mortality far too early. A story of pain, hope, friendship, and the courage to keep living, even when suddenly nothing can be taken for granted anymore.
This is the English translation of the German book text me after surgery.
Kristina vom Lehn, born in 2000, is a city girl from western Germany who has lived her whole life with a heart that has undergone far more surgeries than someone her age should ever have to go through. Even as a baby, she had to endure several procedures, but hospital stays and fears never stopped her from loving life. Writing has always been her refuge. In 2022, the unexpected call came: another heart surgery. This experience sparked a desire to document her story. During this particularly difficult time, marked by illness and uncertainty, she collected chat histories that became the starting point for her first work, text me after surgery. It blends reality and fiction, as her protagonist, Kleo, bears traits of Kristinas own story and narrates about fear, hope, courage, and the strength to keep living.
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