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'My Transplanted Heart and I Will Die Soon'
« on: April 19, 2023, 12:02:31 PM »

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Re: 'My Transplanted Heart and I Will Die Soon'
« Reply #1 on: April 19, 2023, 09:05:48 PM »
Quite sad but worth reading.

She is right to protest given "improprieties, mishandling and wastefulness of donated organs" and, importantly, the problems with drugs used to stop rejection. Hopefully progress can be made on finding and supplying better drugs, but all drugs have potential side and other unwanted effects.

Many of them in my chemo treatment last year warned of the potential to cause cancer themselves.

And, a reminder that, currently, it is likely that one in two will suffer from a form of cancer during their life.
Ah, but I was so much older then ... I'm younger than that now