In addition to attending the booksigning with Diana Gabaldon, Blythe has brought back a signed copy of Echo in the Bone for one lucky reader. To enter, simply answer the following, “What medical condition prompts Briana and Roger to journey back to the 20th century with their children?” NOTE: If you haven’t read all the books, be warned that reading the comments will probably spoil at least part of one book for you.
The contest will be open from 8:30 a.m. EST until 7:00 p.m. EST on Thursday, October 1, 2009.
– Blythe Barnhill and Lynn Spencer
I enjoy spending as much time as I can between the covers of a book, traveling through time and around the world. When I'm not having adventures with fictional characters, I'm an attorney in Virginia and I love just hanging out with my husband, little man, and the cat who rules our house.
Thanks for this usefull information.
So, who won? Not me, I’m guessing… :(
oops I’m a bit late;-)
Their daughter, Amanda had a heart defect that could not be corrected in the 18th century.
A heart defect
Heart trouble
Brianna and Roger’s daughter, Amanda, has a heart defect that requires 20th century medical care.
Amanda had a heart defect which needed surgery not available in the 18th century
Amanda has a heart defect (patent ductus arteriosus), which cannot be repaired by Claire in the 18th century.
Their daughter Mandy had a heart defect that would eventually result in death and needed surgery
Baby Amanda had a heart defect that was easily correctible in the 20th century, but not in the time Brianna and Roger had returned to, so they needed to return to the 20th century to get it corrected.
Their daughter had a heart condition which could not be cured unless they returned to their future for an operation which will allow Amanda to survive and thrive.
Hello,
Amanda had Patent ductus arteriosus in which a blood vessel fails to close normally in an infant soon after birth. No available treatment at the time so Brianna and Roger were forced to go back to present time.
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Margaret
Briana and Roger go forward to future in order to enable them to have life-saving surgery on their daughter Amanda’s heart.
Roger and Brianna’s daughter Amanda had a birth defect – a heart condition caused by a blood vessel that was too small. They travelled back through time for surgery that could only be done successfully using 20th century medicine.
Their daughter had a heart defect that could be fixed in the 20th Century
Claire diagnosed Amanda with a heart condition were as Amanda’s Ductus Arteriosus (a small blood vessel) did not close completely upon birth,thus allowing blood to enter her lungs and not enough oxygen to the rest of her body. In turn Amanda is unable to get nourishment properly and is unable to grow right.
Baby Amanda had a hole in her heart which would normally close by itself but didn’t, which caused a failure to thrive. So they decided to return to get the surgery she needed.
Baby Amanda had a heart defect and needed to be in Roger and Brianna’s time to get it taken care of.
Amanda had a heart defect that was not repairable in the 17th century which would have meant major problems and death as she grew. In the 20th century this is an easily fixed condition.
A heart defect. And I read a review that contained a spoiler and was shocked. I’ve been wanting to read this book for so long…I’m hoping what I read is not true and just a cruel joke, but I would love to win Bone and find out :)
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heart defect.
Mandy was born with a heart defect her grand-ma couldn’t cure.
Baby had a heart defect requiring surgery beyond what Claire could do in the 18th century, so Mandy, her brother, and parents came back to the 20th for the surgery.
The hole in their infant daughter’s, Mandy’s, heart, AKA “”failure to thrive,”” fairly easy to repair in modern times with surgery but likely fatal before 1950’s
She had a heart defect/problem. Thank you and pick me.
Roger and Brianna’s daughter, Mandy, was born with a heart defect that needed to be operated on in order for her to survive. Claire couldn’t perform the surgery in the 18th century, so they had to go back to the 20th century and modern medicine.
Could it possibly have a ‘Tetralogy of Fallot’ ?
This is a combination of a hole between the two ventricles, and a narrowing between the right ventricle and the lung artery. The right ventricle has extra work to do to squeeze blood through the narrowing to the lungs, and as it works at high pressure, is able to pump blood directly from it through the intraventricular hole into the aorta.
A murmur may be noted initially and then blueness…
I was born with this condition, and Claire’s diagnosis equates to the above, and I recognise the symptoms.
I hope Mandy grows up as strong and healthy as I have done.
Hi AAR,
A heart defect!
Thanks, Blythe, for giving up the goods! You’re a better woman than I!
Heart defect
Amanda had a heart defect.
A congenital heart defect.
A heart defect
their daughter had a heart defect that could only be fixed in the twentieth century.
Mandy is born with a heart defect.
A patent ductus arteriosus. A heart defect that Claire could not risk fixing.
Amanda’s heart defect could not be operated on in the 1700’s but was/is curable in our time…Clare knew how but needed the proper equipment and would not risk it under the conditions.
Their baby daughter,Amanda,has a heart defect.
Patent ductus arteriosus, surgically correctable in modern times, but impossible for Claire to do in 1770’s.
Baby Amanda has a heart defect that will be able to be repaired in the 20th century.
Their daughter had a heart defect.
PDA (patent ductus arteriosis)
Baby Amanda had a persistent patent ductus heart defect causing deoxygenated blood to mix with oxygenated blood and thus her blue fingers and toes. Poor wee Amanda…
Heart defect that could be fixed back in their time.
Their daughter has a heart defect.
Heart defect the is easy to cure in modern times
A heart defect. I have never read her books but I am really interested in them after reading these post.
Baby Amanda had a heart defect.
Baby Amanda had a condition known as “”patent ductus arteriosus”” which is a valve that usually closes after the baby starts breathing. It sometimes happens that it doesn’t close and that was the serious problem.