The True to Life Musings of Fred and Ernie by Roger Henri Trepanier

Author:Roger Henri Trepanier
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Roger Henri Trepanier

One may be rich and famous here on earth, so as to get what one wants during one’s lifetime; but if that is all one has when one dies, in terms of never having made peace with God, then one is a very pitiable condition indeed!

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

/ If that one will not work, we will give you another one, no problem!

The same week that Colette left for home, Fred, Ernie, and Yvette were watching a documentary on organ transplants after supper one evening. All three sat amazed at how far medical science had progressed. It was shown that at present what is routinely transplanted are the kidneys, the liver, the heart, the lungs, the pancreas, the intestine, and the thymus, that being in the order these are most often performed. Tissue transplants were also said to be as common, such as bones, tendons, cornea, skin, heart valves, nerves, and veins. Transplants can come from a living donor, or from one who has died less than 24 hours before the transplant. A transplant can even come from one’s own body as part of what is known as ‘regenerative medicine,’ where scientists create organs grown from a person’s own cells, or from the failing organs themselves. This field is expanding by leaps and bounds as the need is great, since more people die waiting for a transplant (about 20 a day at present in the US) than there are people fortunate enough to find a donor for a transplant to take place.

The program mentioned a young girl of 9 in Maine, who a few years ago underwent six organ transplants all at once at a hospital in Boston. She had a tumor which grew tentacles affecting her own stomach, liver, spleen, small intestine, pancreas, and part of the esophagus. Doctors had no choice in her case but to attempt all these organ transplants at once, for if they did not, she would simply die. What was fortunate for her is that she was able to find a family willing to give her the organs needed when their own little girl of around the same age died. The girl who got the organs says she still cries when she thinks that another young girl had to die in order for her to live. She had her operation in February and by August she was living a normal life again, something the doctors said was really miraculous. To look at her, one would never guess she had a successful six organ transplant.

The most disturbing aspect of the program was when they brought up the subject of organ trafficking, the full extent of which was not known, since it is illegal in all countries except Iran. Two countries, Australia and Singapore, had recently legalized compensation for organ donors, in an attempt at getting more donors to donate. The really horrifying part of organ trafficking was that it was often occurring in poor countries with dictatorships, where the donors were often prisoners, which meant that the organ, which is most often a kidney, would have been taken by force.

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