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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: LindyBill who wrote (478617)3/26/2012 12:57:25 PM
From: MJ   of 793914
 
You are so right-------what ever happens the green with envy, hatred comes in to play.

Of importance in the article--------is this paragraph.

"More than 3,100 Americans are waiting now for a new heart, and about 330 die each year before one becomes available. When one does, doctors check to see who is a good match and in highest medical need. The heart is offered locally, then regionally and finally nationally until a match is made."

I have a friend from 15 years ago-------who got so weak he could hardly walk. The University Hospital in Virginia had him on the transplant list------a young man died in an automobile accident and had directed that his heart be used for a transplant, an option we can check off on our driver's license. He and his wife were called to come immediately-------within a couple of hours he was getting a transplant.

About a year later I saw them and he was like he was 20 years younger and doing the things he had
enjoyed, including working on the farm.

Another one is the gentleman who is now about a 100---------his transplant was done at about 90----piano is his passion, until he had the transplant he was a vegetable unable to function the heart revived him. I have lost touch on that story, never made the news.
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