Dear Readers
I want to go back to my techie roots so if you have a spare pc (not MAC), please let me know of price/or possble bartership.
I prefer one with windows xp pro and some shells (programming)
Thanks
Thursday, January 04, 2007
Wednesday, January 03, 2007
Tuesday, January 02, 2007
BACK TO WORK - BOOHOO
Hello
I just received this email excerpt and I think that this surgery was a little too Twilight Zonish. I have been working in the field of organ transplant for more than a decade and I have enable thousands - directly and indirectly- obtain a new lease of life, but this following type of transplant is not really enhancing life and it is not saving anybody's life!
www.donatelife.org
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Penis Transplant Removed After Two Weeks
By Marilynn Marchione
Associated Press
posted: 19 September 2006
04:28 pm ET
Chinese doctors say they successfully transplanted a penis on a man who lost his own in an accident, but had to remove it two weeks later because of psychological problems experienced by the man and his wife.
The case appears to be the first such transplant reported in a medical journal—European Urology, published by the European Association of Urology.
The Chinese doctors could not be reached for comment, and their report does not explain how the 44-year-old man lost his penis. It says only that "an unfortunate traumatic accident'' left him with a small stump, unable to urinate or have sex normally.
Surgeons led by Dr. Hu Weilie at Guangzhou General Hospital performed the transplant in September 2005, a hospital spokesperson said Tuesday. The penis came from a 22-year-old brain-dead man whose parents agreed to donate his organ.
"There was a strong demand from both the patient and his wife'' for a transplant, and the operation "was discussed again and again'' and approved by the hospital's ethics committee, Hu writes in the journal.
Despite how shocking and radical the operation sounds, it involves standard microsurgery techniques to reconnect blood vessels and nerves.
From a medical point of view, "the main hurdle is the functional recovery,'' said Dr. W.P. Andrew Lee, chief of plastic surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
From arm and leg reattachments, it's known that nerve regrowth occurs at a rate of about an inch a month and often is insufficient to allow normal use, he said.
However, the ethical and psychological challenges in such cases can be even more paramount, as this and other recent transplants involving hands and faces illustrate.
"Some of the considerations for a penile transplant are the same as for a hand or face transplant,'' such as the need to take lifelong immune-suppressing drugs to prevent rejection of the new organ, Lee said.
The drugs can cause kidney and other damage, acceptable risks when the transplant involves a vital organ such as a liver or heart, but more ethically perilous when the operation is aimed at improving quality of life rather than extending it, Dr. Yoram Vardi, a neurology and urology specialist at the Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, Israel, writes in an accompanying commentary in the urology journal.
Psychological issues are keenly important. The world's first hand transplant recipient stopped taking immune suppression drugs and later requested that the hand be amputated.
Lee recalled speaking with the recipient of the world's first double-hand transplant in France, who told him it took months for him to accept his new hands and stop referring to one as "it.''
Fourteen days after the penis transplant, the recipient and his wife requested that the organ be removed "because of the wife's psychological rejection as well as the swollen shape of the transplanted penis,'' the surgeons report in the journal.
Lab examination showed no sign of rejection, the doctors report.
If adequate attention had been paid to the need for counseling and other psychological concerns surrounding the transplant, "the need for penile amputation could probably have been avoided,'' Vardi wrote in his commentary.
* Micropenis Enlarged with New Surgical Technique
* Circumcision: Fact, Fiction and Hype
I just received this email excerpt and I think that this surgery was a little too Twilight Zonish. I have been working in the field of organ transplant for more than a decade and I have enable thousands - directly and indirectly- obtain a new lease of life, but this following type of transplant is not really enhancing life and it is not saving anybody's life!
www.donatelife.org
------
Penis Transplant Removed After Two Weeks
By Marilynn Marchione
Associated Press
posted: 19 September 2006
04:28 pm ET
Chinese doctors say they successfully transplanted a penis on a man who lost his own in an accident, but had to remove it two weeks later because of psychological problems experienced by the man and his wife.
The case appears to be the first such transplant reported in a medical journal—European Urology, published by the European Association of Urology.
The Chinese doctors could not be reached for comment, and their report does not explain how the 44-year-old man lost his penis. It says only that "an unfortunate traumatic accident'' left him with a small stump, unable to urinate or have sex normally.
Surgeons led by Dr. Hu Weilie at Guangzhou General Hospital performed the transplant in September 2005, a hospital spokesperson said Tuesday. The penis came from a 22-year-old brain-dead man whose parents agreed to donate his organ.
"There was a strong demand from both the patient and his wife'' for a transplant, and the operation "was discussed again and again'' and approved by the hospital's ethics committee, Hu writes in the journal.
Despite how shocking and radical the operation sounds, it involves standard microsurgery techniques to reconnect blood vessels and nerves.
From a medical point of view, "the main hurdle is the functional recovery,'' said Dr. W.P. Andrew Lee, chief of plastic surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
From arm and leg reattachments, it's known that nerve regrowth occurs at a rate of about an inch a month and often is insufficient to allow normal use, he said.
However, the ethical and psychological challenges in such cases can be even more paramount, as this and other recent transplants involving hands and faces illustrate.
"Some of the considerations for a penile transplant are the same as for a hand or face transplant,'' such as the need to take lifelong immune-suppressing drugs to prevent rejection of the new organ, Lee said.
The drugs can cause kidney and other damage, acceptable risks when the transplant involves a vital organ such as a liver or heart, but more ethically perilous when the operation is aimed at improving quality of life rather than extending it, Dr. Yoram Vardi, a neurology and urology specialist at the Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, Israel, writes in an accompanying commentary in the urology journal.
Psychological issues are keenly important. The world's first hand transplant recipient stopped taking immune suppression drugs and later requested that the hand be amputated.
Lee recalled speaking with the recipient of the world's first double-hand transplant in France, who told him it took months for him to accept his new hands and stop referring to one as "it.''
Fourteen days after the penis transplant, the recipient and his wife requested that the organ be removed "because of the wife's psychological rejection as well as the swollen shape of the transplanted penis,'' the surgeons report in the journal.
Lab examination showed no sign of rejection, the doctors report.
If adequate attention had been paid to the need for counseling and other psychological concerns surrounding the transplant, "the need for penile amputation could probably have been avoided,'' Vardi wrote in his commentary.
* Micropenis Enlarged with New Surgical Technique
* Circumcision: Fact, Fiction and Hype
Monday, January 01, 2007
The Steps & Happy New Year
Happy New Year!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6S8x3hrJhkE&NR
This is a clip of Rocky Balboa doing his training. So inspirational!! Loved it! Great way to start a year. He was a late bloom talker just like me.
God willing, when yours truly will be in Phili, I want to mimic the Rocky Steps. I want to run up the down the stairs and have a friend take a picture of me cheering at the top from both angles! i cant do this with heels so Sketchers - here I come!
Hugs
L
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6S8x3hrJhkE&NR
This is a clip of Rocky Balboa doing his training. So inspirational!! Loved it! Great way to start a year. He was a late bloom talker just like me.
God willing, when yours truly will be in Phili, I want to mimic the Rocky Steps. I want to run up the down the stairs and have a friend take a picture of me cheering at the top from both angles! i cant do this with heels so Sketchers - here I come!
Hugs
L
Sunday, December 31, 2006
Out with the OLD
Today is the last day of 2006
Last night my mini ipod accidentally felled. Now it does not play any music. Thus, it is a sign to leave this ipod with the old year.
This ipod meant ALOT to me, it was my last sentimental gift. Good riddance. I needed a big reason like this to discard this ipod.
What a coincidence that its right on the last day of the year.
OUT WITH The OLD
The Universe is facilitating me to start a fresh with no reminders of GW at all.
Last night my mini ipod accidentally felled. Now it does not play any music. Thus, it is a sign to leave this ipod with the old year.
This ipod meant ALOT to me, it was my last sentimental gift. Good riddance. I needed a big reason like this to discard this ipod.
What a coincidence that its right on the last day of the year.
OUT WITH The OLD
The Universe is facilitating me to start a fresh with no reminders of GW at all.
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