A Strange Phenomenon.
Hey,
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Greetings to you once again, hope you are now in the throes of recovering from the most wonderful of weekends.
If not, don’t stress about it, mine was an extremely one quiet too.
But nice enough!
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There are some people having much more worrying ones.
A dear friend of mine is going through terrible worries at the moment, because her husband is waiting to get a quadruple by-pass operation.
So far he has been into the NHS hospital three times, expecting to have the procedure carried out, but it has been cancelled instead.
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The last time was last Friday.
There he was, all of his body hair shaved off, waiting to go into surgery in the afternoon, because there had been an emergency in the morning and all of the operation times had been put back a few hours.
My friend was at home, worried out of her mind, when she got a call to say that his operation had been cancelled again so he would be coming home for the weekend and they would try to get it done today instead.
Talk about stress levels!
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She has an excellent sense of humour however, and said it would be like living with Lex Luther for a couple of days.
So I said that she would need to spend the weekend trying to persuade him not to take over the world.
We managed a real laugh about that, so that was a good thing.
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I now have my fingers, legs and eyes crossed that all goes well today and he gets his operation as promised.
These things certainly put life into it’s proper perspective, as far as I am concerned anyway.
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Do you think that it is true that when people have organ transplants they can absorb some of the characteristics of the donor?
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I have read quite a few reports about people who say that they developed different tastes and interests suddenly, after undergoing the surgery.
One of them developed an intense love of classical music, only to find out that the donor had been a lifelong aficionado of all things classical.
Another developed a taste for specific junk foods after his operation, although he had no liking for them before.
Eventually he was contacted by the donor’s family,who wanted to see how their child’s death had helped someone else, and during the course of the conversation he found out that the donor had been a teenage boy, who ate nothing but the same items of junk food that he had developed the cravings for.
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In 2008 there was a strange case reported in America.
A man called Sonny Graham received a new heart from a male donor called Terry Cottle..
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It had all begun in South Carolina when Mr Graham developed congestive heart failure.
He had only a few months to live when he was offered the chance of a new heart.
The donor was a Mr Cottle, 33, who had just committed suicide by shooting himself in the head.
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The transplant was successful.
Later, after wishing to thank the donor’s family, he began writing to Mrs Cottle, who was a mother of four.
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Eventually they met, fell in love and got married.
Afterwards moving to live in Georgia.
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Twelve years later and Mr Graham, 69, eventually killed himself in exactly the same way that Mr Cottle had.
He shot himself in the throat with a shotgun.
He was discovered in the garage of his home in Georgia, leaving his wife completely stunned by what had happened to her family for the second time.
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This is put down to something called a ‘cellular memory phenonenon’ by some experts, but there is much scepticism about this
idea.
And there are many other similar stories, well over sixty I believe.
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It certainly makes me wonder!
So do have a fine one.
LOL
Jaksie.
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