Friday, February 21, 2003Brain damage "irreversible"The latest news on Jesica Santillan is that her brain damage - from cerebral edema, plus previously-unannounced hemorrhaging - is "severe and irreversible." Doctors feel that this is caused by all that time she spent on life support before her second transplant. Put plainly, it doesn't look good. Sign in to see full entry.posted by kidnykid at 2:07 PM Comments (0) (link) Wired.com article of interest: The ignored patient in the donation triangleWired.com has an interesting article in this month's edition, about the ignored patient in the organ-donation triangle: the cadaveric donor. Be forewarned, though - it's an MA article, in the sense that it gets into some pretty gruesome stuff. It isn't an article for the weak of stomach or the more... Sign in to see full entry.posted by kidnykid at 12:30 PM Comments (0) (link) Jesica Santillan in "grave" conditionThis is one of those things I'm kicking myself about - just as soon as I declare a "holiday" to treat what is apparently a nasty cold with a dollop of laryngitis, this story comes across the wire. Jesica Santillan is described as being in "grave" condition today, 24 hours after she received a second... Sign in to see full entry.posted by kidnykid at 12:22 PM Comments (0) (link) |
About this BlogThis was originally intended to be written during Organ Donor Awareness Week only, but I felt like writing about transplant-related issues at other times of the year.
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