What happens when becoming a mother turns into a fight for your life? In More Than a Patient, Valery Robinson shares her powerful journey from a complicated pregnancy to surviving a life-threatening infection, multiple open-heart surgeries, a stroke, heart failure, and years of navigating the healthcare system. But this is more than a medical story. It is the story of a Black mother fighting to survive for her children, learning to advocate for herself, and discovering the power of her own voice. Through heartbreak, faith, family, humor, and resilience, Valery takes readers beyond the diagnoses and hospital records to reveal the woman behind the patient. She fought for her life. She fought for her children. And she learned that being heard can change everything. More Than a Patient is a story of survival, motherhood, advocacy, and the determination to keep going when survival is only the beginning.