[UA] own heart as artifact

[uneasy at magnaspeed.net]

Liver transplants starting at 12?  Your name wouldn't happen to be "Jon the 
Child Dipsomancer" would it?  :)

At 08:57 PM 7/12/2003 -0700, you wrote:
> > I just saw this picture of a boy who is playing with his own heart.  Just
> > he had a heart transplant, and he's actually tossing around his old heart
> > in his hands.
>
>I think this is fairly common.  After my first liver transplant, when I
>was twelve, I was taken down to the hospital lab or morgue or whatever,
>and was able to see my old liver.  It was swollen, sliced in half for
>study, and green.  We took polaroids of it, and joked about using the
>pictures for Christmas cards.  I may still have them somewhere....
>
>I was told that the Pittsburgh Children's Hospital (where I had my first
>two transplants done) kept all organs they removed from transplant
>patients.  I guess any patient that wanted to keep their old bits could
>break in and get them.  I don't know about the policies of other
>hospitals, but if it suits your campaign, I don't see why they couldn't do
>the same.
>
>jon-

uneasy at magnaspeed.net


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