Happy Rebirthday
Today, I stood at the window again. It was blustery outside, chilly even this side of the pane. I’d thought that the wonderfully soaking rain of the preceding 48 hours across the Eastern Cape would have brought a calm
Balancing Drugs
It’s mostly about balance – of food, fluids, exercise, emotional wellbeing and medication, especially medication. Getting the right balance is critical for the survival of a heart transplant recipient. And nowhere is this more apparent than in the administering of
Donor Heart – Handle With Care
There is no doubt that a healthy donor heart has a radically positive impact when transplanted into the chest cavity of someone whose unhealthy birth heart has gone into failure. But the new heart also requires to be handled with
We All Fear Rejection
By the time human organs had been transplanted, many hundreds of operations involving various animals had been performed around the world to test surgical procedures (correctly, many of these experiments would be outlawed by ethics policies today). Kidney transplants from one
Un-masking Our True Attitudes
I feel a bit goofy about it. But the medical people insist that going around in public for the next couple of weeks with a surgical mask covering my mouth and nose are critical for my good health, preventing germs
PART 2 (Please read first): No place for old pessimists
PART 2 I am going to avoid making any comments about the facts in this post – a previous version came across as too arrogant, triumphalist even. Our family has taken to using H1, Heart 1, for my original, birth
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