Perspectivist@feddit.uk to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 24 days agoA brain transplant is one of those rare cases where you’d rather be the donor than the recipient.message-squaremessage-square16fedilinkarrow-up1154arrow-down14
arrow-up1150arrow-down1message-squareA brain transplant is one of those rare cases where you’d rather be the donor than the recipient.Perspectivist@feddit.uk to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 24 days agomessage-square16fedilink
minus-squareAmidFuror@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up16arrow-down1·23 days agoKidney might be similar. Both people are likely to be left with one functioning kidney, but one has to take anti-rejection drugs. A partial liver transplant and a bone marrow transplant is even more along the lines of better to be the donor. And fecal transplants are pretty easy on both parties, but moreso the donor.
minus-squareRikudou_Sage@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·23 days agoUnless you’re one of the lucky few whose body simply accepts the transplanted organ as its own.
minus-squaretourist@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·23 days ago fecal transplants wait does this mean “eat shit” counts as unsolicited medical advice
minus-squarebitchkat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·23 days agoMy friend had a kidney transplant but they moved her own kidney to the front. I forgot what that workes on but even she said it was odd.
Kidney might be similar. Both people are likely to be left with one functioning kidney, but one has to take anti-rejection drugs.
A partial liver transplant and a bone marrow transplant is even more along the lines of better to be the donor.
And fecal transplants are pretty easy on both parties, but moreso the donor.
Unless you’re one of the lucky few whose body simply accepts the transplanted organ as its own.
wait
does this mean “eat shit” counts as unsolicited medical advice
My friend had a kidney transplant but they moved her own kidney to the front. I forgot what that workes on but even she said it was odd.