The Sydney Morning Herald is reporting the world’s first triple transplant operation has just been performed. Sounds like it needs a punch line, but it’s true. A woman got a new liver, pancreas and kidney in one go, all from one donor, making a matched set. This has cured her of liver disease and related kidney damage. Apparently they like to transplant livers with the pancreas still stuck to it, so she now has a second pancreas - neatly curing her of diabetes in the bargain. At least that’s how I understood it. Perhaps one of you lab monkeys could explain it for us.The newspaper called it a “one-off” operation. What does that mean? That they’re just not that into doing anymore? Or does it mean it was a custom job…you know, a limited edition operation. Maybe the next person gets a liver with a lung attached instead.
Tonight on American Transplant
Billy Jnr: I wanted to do something special with this operation in honor of the veterans of the wars and stuff. So I was thinking I might, like, take a gunshot victim and like maybe a stabbing victim and like see if I can like meld them, you know? Like just sort of mix up the working parts to like show there's like always hope and shit, you know?
Bill Snr: Jesus (beep) Christ have you got that (beep) left lung attached yet? You got the (beep) heart fibrillating all over the gawd damn place, when are you gonna (beep) fix that shit?
Billy Jnr: Awww, get off my back. It’ll get done in time, keep your (beep) shirt on. There look, it stopped fibrillating…oh shit
Bill Snr: You see? That’s the shit I’m talkin’ about, but you don’t (beep) listen do you? (storms away in disgust, slams door)
8 comments:
Very nifty indeed. She'd got type 1 diabetes, so her own pancreas wasn't producing enough insulin to regulate her blood sugar level; the new pancreas has taken over and she's not diabetic any more.
I suppose it's a "one-off" because it's not a combination of organs that have been transplanted together before - but anatomically they are all associated so it's a very cool idea.
you're way off
it means she's one-off of being a robo-zombie
that's what the transplants were for. they were attempting to make a robo-zombie using the best parts of other humans to make one super human.
the test was a success however. with two pancrei she is twice as powerful, twice as deadly!
Am standing corrected (like Skookum).
Am standing corrected (like Skookum).
Am repeating myself.
Am repeating myself.
Thanks Sandra
Sandra Thanks
frodo I think H. Wood said "shire" in his comment which gave me the idea.
Exile your drugs appear to be better than mine
skook- what drugs? i stopped taking those years ago...
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