I am constantly amazed by how far modern medicine has advanced.
I wasn't aware until today that this had been done before elsewhere in the world over 4 years ago. But today details are being announced about the UK's first which has now taken place.
It's also quite scary in some respects. When I'm on my death bed I will be watching closely for a guy with a Black and Decker and a bag of ice :uhoh:
I think modern medicine is fantastic.
To be able to save or improve a life is the best gift you could ever give. I would encourage anyone and everyone to join the organ donation register, bone marrow register and give blood if you are able!
I know that this particular transplant didn't save a life but imagine the improvement to the quality of this guys life that this transplant will bring!
I am totally in awe of the families who, at such a horrific time in their lives, agree to their Ioved ones donating.
in the 1970 we had the programme the six million dollar man.
now medicine is rebuilding people.
maybe not to the extreme of being bionic.
but it is getting there.
We are able to replace limbs and faces, how long before brains?
every fictional tv programme has a vision of the future.
we now have cars which can drive themselves something which was made famous by a black trans-am on knight rider.
and the rebuilding of people. we can rebuild him. better than he was before.
we have the technology.
where will it stop? terminator machines designed to replace soldiers rising against man?
how far will it all go?
it all starts with a dream.
I have to say, there's enough titanium in me for a miniature submarine, if the accident had been a few years earlier I wouldn't have made it, I was 5, I have almost complete mobility and very minor scarring (enough people on here can attest to that).
The people who scaremonger and try and hold up medical science are killing people.
Donate people, even if they can't use your organs in people they can use them to do research to save more lives.
