7/14/2003: Heart from transplant
 

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Twelve-year-old Shane Bowman plays with his old heart in Edmonton, Canada on Friday, July 11, 2003. Bowman had a heart transplant and got a chance to see his old heart to have some closure on his illness. Bowman had dialated cardiomyopathy, a condition caused by a virus, and his heart was enlarged to about 555 grams. A normal heart is about 200 grams.

Imagine playing catch with your own heart.

Hey that's handy... in coming years he can hand it to girls & they can stomp on it... it'll save them the trouble of ripping out of his chest first. :beer:

If Rho gets a kidney transplant, we could all play catch with the kidney at a future GTG.

Imagine all the Love that guy must have had in his huge heart! It's gargantuan! How did that fit inside him?

That is completely amazing.

hmmm... the 'Heart Diet':eek:

And dribbled across the floor then slam dunked into a Cuisinart. Film at 11.:(

Look at the fatty deposits surrounding it... I don't think that's necessarily normal. I used to work at a butcher shop and (granted, I'm not really an expert in HUMAN hearts... actually I'm not really an expert in any hearts, I guess) you don't usually see that much white stuff around the heart of a young animal.

I wonder if it's a side effect of his disease.

That would make sense as fat would have greater volume and add mass.

I dunno; I seem to remember quite a bit of fat around mammal hearts that I've dissected. Of course, I'm no heart expert either.

That's where the flavor is. ;)

I wonder if they carry that philosophy forward to other kinds of operations. It would make sex changes interesting.

"Look at the fatty deposits surrounding it... "
 

Can you say suet?

It's what makes a Spotted Dick so light and fluffy! Ahh, British food!

This approach might work well for other theraputic benefits as well -- I can think of a few pricks I'd like to sever and hurl around -- provide closure and all that . . .:eek: