“It’s been serendipitous from the moment we first saw each other.” “I would never have been drawn to this topic if it hadn’t been for Robert,” she says. ‘I don’t think I realized how big a deal it was until I woke up after the surgery. She is now an associate professor of medicine and a nephrologist at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital since she became involved in advocating for the rights of kidney patients, especially those in the African-American community. It chronicles how meeting and falling in love with Phillips, now 44, changed her life and inspired her to go in a different direction in the medical field. Now, nearly 12 years after their wedding, the 47-year-old mom has written about her experiences in her memoir: “ Hundreds of Interlaced Fingers: a Kidney Doctor’s Search for the Perfect Match,” published this week by Amistad. “I didn’t even have an engagement ring at the time of the transplant!” laughs Grubbs, a former primary care physician who has since specialized in nephrology, the treatment of patients with kidney problems. They started dating in June 2004, she gave him a kidney in April 2005 and the couple got married just three months after that. Vanessa Grubbs and Robert Phillips had a unique progression.
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