Texas woman to receive first U.S. double arm transplant - Polidicks

[url]http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/12/us-massachusetts-hand-transplant-idUSBRE88B1LM20120912[/url] [quote=Reuters]A Texas woman who lost all four limbs to a flesh-eating bacteria has been approved for a double arm transplant at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital in what will be the first such procedure performed in the United States. Katy Hayes, 44, of Kingwood, Texas, will receive two new arms above the elbow. The hospital is working with a regional organ donor bank to find a donor. The surgery has not yet been scheduled. "I have the determination to make these arms my own," Hayes said at a news conference in Boston. "I want my life back. I want to hold my children. I want to hug my husband." Hayes contracted a life-threatening Group A Streptococcal infection after giving birth to her third child in February 2010. She lost her large intestine and her uterus as well as her limbs. The transplant could give Hayes the ability to flex and extend her elbows and to lift herself out of a wheelchair. The level of function she will acquire, especially in her new hands, is uncertain, said Bohdan Pomahac, director of plastic surgery transplantation at the Brigham. Hayes and her family moved from Texas in July to prepare for the surgery. She has been undergoing psychological and physical screening at the hospital to determine her eligibility for the grueling surgery and long recovery. Among other things, the former massage therapist said she is looking forward to wearing her wedding ring again. "When you don't have hands, you can't wear rings," she said. The world's first double above-the-elbow arm transplant was performed in Germany in 2008 on a farmer who had lost both limbs in a farming accident. Brigham and Women's has done two double hand transplants in the past few years, and a few other U.S. hospitals have performed the hand surgeries. Arm transplants are considered less difficult, technically, than hand transplants, but the recovery is more challenging and the potential nerve connections more tenuous.[/quote]

"The hospital is working with a regional organ donor bank to find a donor." Hnng

[quote]who lost all four limbs to a flesh-eating bacteria[/quote] holy shit

[QUOTE=soulharvester;37647284]"The hospital is working with a regional organ donor bank to find a donor." Hnng[/QUOTE] It's not bad in some way, I'm not sure why people are so afraid of signing up to donate organs when they die. Someone is going to be pronounced deceased, the hospital will notify the donor bank who will deliver the arms to the hospital and prep the woman for surgery.

I want to jerk it with someone else's hand

\o/ wooo

Krokodil; not even once.

[QUOTE=Abrown516;37647420]Krokodil; not even once.[/QUOTE] She didn't lose 'em because of that junk.

Why does flesh eating bacteria even exist? It's like something out of a horror movie.

[QUOTE=Abrown516;37647420]Krokodil; not even once.[/QUOTE] I wasn't aware Texas was in Russia and I also wasn't aware that Krokodil is alive.

[QUOTE=soulharvester;37647284]"The hospital is working with a regional organ donor bank to find a donor." Hnng[/QUOTE] They don't actually cut off the arms of some random guy who will then have to live without them When you sign up on a heart donors list you just make it clear that if you ever die they can take anything that seems viable in your body and put it in anyone else's body they think fits.

[QUOTE=soulharvester;37647284]"The hospital is working with a regional organ donor bank to find a donor." Hnng[/QUOTE] [video=youtube;aclS1pGHp8o]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aclS1pGHp8o[/video]

I'm not sure if a Deus Ex joke is appropriate :v: I'm surprised that an entire arm could be controlled with the brain. Think how fucking cool that is, nowadays we can give somebody [b]a pair of working arms[/b].

[QUOTE=geogzm;37649779]I'm not sure if a Deus Ex joke is appropriate :v: I'm surprised that an entire arm could be controlled with the brain. Think how fucking cool that is, nowadays we can give somebody [b]a pair of working arms[/b].[/QUOTE] [video=youtube;PidqxAAjUl4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PidqxAAjUl4&feature=player_detailpage[/video] Skip to about 50s.

[QUOTE=geogzm;37649779]I'm not sure if a Deus Ex joke is appropriate :v: I'm surprised that an entire arm could be controlled with the brain. Think how fucking cool that is, nowadays we can give somebody [b]a pair of working arms[/b].[/QUOTE] This, I didn't even know that's a thing you could do It must be pretty hard to find arms that fit, I'd imagine you'd need to match DNA and blood type and all kinds of other shit, much more than just a kidney or something like that Also if they're longer or shorter or weaker or stronger it's gonna feel real weird at first

When I read the title, I was hoping she already had two arms and was just gonna have two extras. Oh well...

[quote]"I have the determination to make these arms my own,"[/quote] Made me laugh for some reason. This is really cool though.

[QUOTE=Biotoxsin;37647321]It's not bad in some way, I'm not sure why people are so afraid of signing up to donate organs when they die. Someone is going to be pronounced deceased, the hospital will notify the donor bank who will deliver the arms to the hospital and prep the woman for surgery.[/QUOTE] Because when you sign up for that, and you go into a coma or some such, there's just a couple tests, which don't even really prove if you're totally brain dead or not, that are performed to determine if you're 'dead'. Then they keep you alive to harvest your organs when needed. It relinquishes control from you/family members in case of such an incident

She DID ask for this! EH? EH? AM I FUNNY YET?

[QUOTE=Ganerumo;37648139]They don't actually cut off the arms of some random guy who will then have to live without them When you sign up on a heart donors list you just make it clear that if you ever die they can take anything that seems viable in your body and put it in anyone else's body they think fits.[/QUOTE] IF you ever die?