#transplant

Is there anything courageous or brave about making the only possible choice that will save your life? When you're drowning, you grab any hand that's offered. To me, bravery is a spontaneous decision to save somebody else's life when your own is in danger. ↗

— Claire Sylvia

#memoir #transplant #courage

I’d always imagined that I’d come up with something clever and pithy when it came to my last words, but as I stood there staring at those horrifying green eyes, I settled for a little startled profanity. How embarrassing. ↗

— Kate SeRine

#red #transplanted-tales #imagination

We have created a new demonstration program to allow families with a sick child who could be helped with a cord blood transplant from a sibling to bank cord blood from newborns should they decide to have another child. ↗

— Nathan Deal

#another #bank #blood #child #cord

It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it to be devoured by worms. ↗

— Christiaan Barnard

#bury #devoured #heart #infinitely #than

There's nobody else on the face of this earth that's playing a sport at a highest level... with a transplant. That alone continues to inspire me, because I realize throughout the whole world the struggles that people are going through. I need to inspire them the best way I can. ↗

— Alonzo Mourning

#because #best #best way #continues #earth

I had worked on dogs for a couple of years developing a renal transplant operation. We had dogs running around with kidneys we had transplanted back into themselves. ↗

— Joe Murray

#back #couple #developing #dogs #had

I have never personally seen a hand transplant that is more useful than a prosthesis. ↗

— Joe Murray

#i #more #never #personally #seen

Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patient's renal and cardiopulmonary status. ↗

— Joe Murray

#immediately #improvement #kidney #patient #status

Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patient's renal and cardiopulmonary status. This spectacular success was a clear demonstration that organ transplantation could be life-saving. ↗

— Joseph Murray

#could #demonstration #dramatic #immediately #improvement