Islet transplants
Wednesday, March 9th, 2005 09:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lizziecIslet transplants are being shown to be successful in Curing Diabetes type I. I don't feel anything I can say on the subject will have as much impact as what my mother posted on her blog about it this morning so I am pointing you all there to get some sort of idea what this means to us as a family.
I will also reiterate what she says at the end:
"The Islet cells that were transplanted into this gentleman were cadaveric ones, they had come from a dead body. That raises again the number of bits of you that are of use to someone else when your life has come to an end. On my driving licence it says that doctors are free to take whatever they want of me to improve someone else's life...when I am done with them, and I'd just like to ask those of you out there to think about whether, if you aren't already you could become a potential donor."
I will also reiterate what she says at the end:
"The Islet cells that were transplanted into this gentleman were cadaveric ones, they had come from a dead body. That raises again the number of bits of you that are of use to someone else when your life has come to an end. On my driving licence it says that doctors are free to take whatever they want of me to improve someone else's life...when I am done with them, and I'd just like to ask those of you out there to think about whether, if you aren't already you could become a potential donor."
