http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080123/ap_on_he_me/transplant_breakthrough
This is good news for all future transplant recipients!
This is good news for all future transplant recipients!
Great news on the transplant front!
- Thread starter Steve Smyth
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reese_apoc
May the HORNS be with you
No, not at this point for me, but I'll be fine! I am now 1 year and a little over 1 month post transplant, and doing just fine! In fact, they're dropping my medications every time I go in, so it's becoming much less of an intake, and obvious cancer risk as well.
This is for anyone who receives a transplant in the future. If mine fails, and I really hope it doesn't, then this may become the normal procedure for any future transplant donations, marrow and organ donation simultaneously.
Thanks for asking though!
That's fucking cool... better living through chemistry, indeed.
Are you able to eat all the good stuff yet? I've heard that was a bit of a problem...
Jeff
Are you able to eat all the good stuff yet? I've heard that was a bit of a problem...
Jeff
Depends on what you call "good stuff"! I like a lot of different food, junk food I unfortunately (like most out there leading busy lives) got waaay too much into before I knew about my condition, so that's basically gone ( they can't take away my light buttered microwave popcorn,"popcorn lung" be damned! Anybody hear about that crazy shit?). I focus mainly on foods that will provide me with what I need naturally(fruits,veggies,meats,fish,green tea,water for example), and have to keep sodium intake as low as possible (not always easy, and a work in progress), but there's ways to spice up foods without salt; salsas that are pepper based is and always has been, a big hit with me! Cholula, and El Tapatio are great. Hey, you're in Texas, any other hot sauces I should know about? Or BBQ, for that matter? Anybody feel free to jump in on this one!Yeah, same for the junk food before I learned how to cook well...
I'm actually stuck on the whole DIY thing with sauces so I'll pull some recipes, but for 'liquid heat' Tabasco is a good one to try. I've actually wound up hanging around with enough chemists-turned-food-nerds to be able to get the 'heat' as a separate ingredient so I can make hot sauces with *real* flavor, not just 'let's just mash hot shit together and grimace'... gotta find those bookmarks.
Jeff
I'm actually stuck on the whole DIY thing with sauces so I'll pull some recipes, but for 'liquid heat' Tabasco is a good one to try. I've actually wound up hanging around with enough chemists-turned-food-nerds to be able to get the 'heat' as a separate ingredient so I can make hot sauces with *real* flavor, not just 'let's just mash hot shit together and grimace'... gotta find those bookmarks.
Jeff
Oh, and...
http://science.slashdot.org/science/08/01/24/1550239.shtml
Thought this might be interesting...
Jeff
http://science.slashdot.org/science/08/01/24/1550239.shtml
Thought this might be interesting...
Jeff
Very cool about the DIY sauces! I'll look out for your recipes, when you get a chance! I'm not a fan of Tabasco though, try as I have over the years to get into it.... Cholula Hot Sauce on an omelette I dig though!
That was an interesting read Jeff, and thanks for sharing! Not sure how that happened for this girl, but those last couple of factors might just have the answer. I hope she won't have to go back on the immunos!
Tabasco has to be added to another sauce that doesn't have heat of its own, really...
Also, the /. comments always wind up being somewhat amusing... I liked the one about Microsoft suing for DRM violation of the shared immune system...
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... fuck, I'm a nerd. Oh well, I'll find those sauces.
Jeff
Also, the /. comments always wind up being somewhat amusing... I liked the one about Microsoft suing for DRM violation of the shared immune system...
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... fuck, I'm a nerd. Oh well, I'll find those sauces.
Jeff
soulflypl
Member
good to hear everything goes better and better with every visit to the doc
.. but how about a glass of wine ... or a pint of beer ? is it allowed ?
.. but how about a glass of wine ... or a pint of beer ? is it allowed ?
