Professional and Library Information
Tito Needs a Kidney: A Journey of Resilience, Community, and Hope is a firsthand memoir about kidney failure, dialysis, kidney transplantation, transplant loss, recovery, living donation, and the experience of rebuilding life around serious illness.
This page is intended for librarians, dialysis and transplant programs, educators, reviewers, journalists, kidney organizations, patient-resource programs, and others evaluating the book for a collection, resource list, review, course, or patient program.
Where the Book May Be Useful
- Public libraries
- Hospital and patient-family libraries
- Health-sciences, nursing, and medical libraries
- Dialysis and kidney transplant patient-resource programs
- Kidney, transplant, living-donor, and caregiver organizations
- Narrative medicine and health-humanities reading lists or courses
- Reviewers and journalists covering health memoirs or patient experience
The book complements clinical education by showing one patient's lived experience. It is not a clinical handbook and should not be represented as medical guidance.
Book Information
About the Book
The memoir follows Tito's experience from an IgA nephropathy diagnosis through kidney failure, dialysis, transplant evaluation, living donation, a first kidney transplant, serious complications, transplant loss, a return to dialysis, and a second kidney transplant.
The book also explores independence, accepting help, navigating medical systems, donor and family relationships, fear, setbacks, resilience, and learning to live with uncertainty.
Intended Audiences
- People approaching or living with dialysis
- Kidney transplant candidates and recipients
- Living donors and people considering kidney donation
- Families, caregivers, friends, and coworkers
- Healthcare staff seeking a firsthand patient perspective
- Librarians and patient-resource professionals
- Educators working in health, nursing, social work, or narrative medicine
Lived Experience, Not Medical Advice
Tito writes as a patient and author, not as a physician, clinician, transplant professional, or medical authority.
The book and this website share personal experience. They do not diagnose conditions, recommend treatment, or replace guidance from a patient's own healthcare team.
Current Ordering Information
The current English edition is available through Amazon in paperback and Kindle formats.
Library, wholesale, and additional distribution information will be added here when those channels are verified as active.
For Reviewers and Resource Programs
Reviewers, libraries, clinics, educational programs, and kidney organizations can use this page as the stable reference for current book information.
Additional review materials, downloadable cover assets, a one-sheet, and approved excerpts can be added here as they become available.
Contact
For review, library, educational, resource-list, or organizational inquiries, please use the site's existing verified contact pathway.