Re: News-Better pigs for transplants

["Tebay, Wendy M" <wendy.m.tebay@xxxxxxxx>]

Everyone & Jim,

Jim - I definitely admire your courage and hope that the results of your
treatment will be beneficial for you, as well as the rest of us also.  I
think when I made my statement about my personal feelings on this, I did
qualify it with the statement that I may change my mind later down the road.
PD can do that to a person.  I guess what gets me thinking a bit about all
of this transplant stuff is the stories of people who've had other organ
transplants (heart, liver, etc.), who report of somehow feeling like more
than just that other person's organ is in them.  By that I mean, like in the
case of a heart transplant, and how we believe the heart to kinda be the
seat of one's feelings, sometimes the recipient supposedly begins feeling
emotions, etc., that are not their own and may come from the donor.  Whether
this is really true or not, I don't know, but after having heard these
stories, it makes one wonder.  But maybe, it could be a good thing to have
pig thoughts now and then, since with all the talk of prions and disease,
not to mention the ethical arguments regarding animal rights, etc., maybe we
could all do well by beginning to occasionally see life from another
species' perspective altogether.  Just a thought.  Hey, you'll let us know
won't you, not only how you're faring physically, but should you also have
any experiences similar to other donor recipients.  Of course, you don't
have to do so if you're not interested, and I hope you're not offended by my
asking, but for me anyway, I find the individual's "experience" of pd
(spiritual, emotional, etc.) to be at least as interesting as the physical
one.

Wendy T.