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ORGAN TRANSPLANT  

spunkycumfun 63M/69F
29519 posts
7/8/2013 10:35 am
ORGAN TRANSPLANT

I don’t normally post my face picture on this site, but this week I’m making an exception! In the UK, the NHS has designated this week as National Transplant Week. I've recently had a cock transplant. The surgeons are very pleased with the results, but I’m not so sure!



I have a transplant, a corneal transplant. The cornea is the outer transparent membrane over the eye that refracts light entering the eye onto the retina to create an image to be sent, via the optic nerve, to the brain. I have a condition called keratoconus, which made my cornea cone-shaped that in turn meant light was not refracting onto the retina. Basically, I couldn’t see in the left eye.

About thirty years ago, I had a corneal transplant at an eye hospital. The operation was filmed for a documentary that was shown on an obscure television channel. Watching the operation was like first seeing a chef using a round pastry cutter to cut the cornea out of my eye, plus the dead person’s eye, and then seeing a seamstress using a needle thread to sew the dead person’s cornea into my eye. The operation was not an immediate success so I had to go back for a minor operation. Unlike the graft, this operation was not under general anaesthetic. I had my head clamped and them my left eye clamped. After some numbing eye drops, a sharp knife came my way to split the sutures in the hope that the grafted cornea would settle in a different position. This operation worked better.

All transplanted organs are likely to be rejected, but because the cornea has no blood supply, the chances of a corneal transplant rejecting are much smaller than for a kidney or liver transplant. However, my graft does occasionally reject every few years – the telltale sign is misty vision in the left eye when I wake up. If it rejects, I have to go to the hospital to be given some steroid-based drops that reverse the rejection.

When my graft first rejected, I was very anxious. I quickly jumped into my car to drive myself to the hospital. On taking a right turn at traffic lights, I knocked down an old man on a bike who rode through red lights. There was blood on the road. I went into the shock. When the police came, I explained that I did not see the man and that I was on the way to eye casualty! Fortunately, I passed the roadside eye test and the man made a full recovery after going to hospital. Whenever my eye rejects now, I get a friend or a taxi to take me to hospital.

There is always a great need for organs for transplant. The need is not helped because fewer people are dying on the roads. Road deaths were always a good source for organs, especially as many killed on the road were younger and therefore had less diseased, more transplant-able organs! Also more organs are needed for transplant as people are living longer.

In the UK, there is an opt-in organ donor register. You have to register to allow your organs to be transplanted. The Welsh government is planning to have an opt-out scheme, whereby you have to register to prevent your organs being transplanted. If you have not registered, it will be presumed that you have given consent to have your organs removed for transplant.

Would you donate your organs if and when you die?
Should an organ donor scheme involve an opt-in or an opt-out register?


FullOn4U 58M
20399 posts
7/8/2013 11:09 am

I intend to wear out most of my parts before I pop my clogs, but if there's anything worth salvaging then they are welcome to it - I'm signed up.


lok4fun500 M
51906 posts
7/8/2013 5:56 pm

You photoshoped my privates with your face?? I don't remember you asking!!


spunkycumfun 63M/69F
41171 posts
7/23/2013 10:26 am

    Quoting FullOn4U:
    I intend to wear out most of my parts before I pop my clogs, but if there's anything worth salvaging then they are welcome to it - I'm signed up.
I'm sure there'll be a few of your parts they can use!


spunkycumfun 63M/69F
41171 posts
7/23/2013 10:33 am

    Quoting  :

The problem is that the photo is showing my cock not erect!


spunkycumfun 63M/69F
41171 posts
7/23/2013 10:35 am

    Quoting  :

I had my pubic hair transplanted as well - it was a special two transplants the cost of one transplant deal!


spunkycumfun 63M/69F
41171 posts
7/23/2013 10:37 am

    Quoting lok4fun500:
    You photoshoped my privates with your face?? I don't remember you asking!!
Please accept my sincere apologies. It was a very stressful time and I forgot about the niceties of asking for your permission!


spunkycumfun 63M/69F
41171 posts
7/23/2013 10:45 am

    Quoting Softsheetsnme:
    I like the Welsh idea. In the US, we opt in on our drivers license, but not everyone has a drivers license.

    I also think they should public awareness for parents. There are many children who need transplants too, but when families are in shock and grief stricken they often refuse to allow for organ donation. I think for children, it should be one of the questions asked on the birth certificate.
I suspect this will still remain the problem with the Welsh opt-out scheme. Doctors will perhaps be reluctant to go against a grieving family's wishes not to allow oran donation, despite the assumed consent of the person who has just died.


GimmeAThrill 55M  
24635 posts
7/26/2013 6:39 pm

I see what you're saying... we need to make driving less safe! Less safe cars, fewer road rules and limits.. yeah! I can see it now! Jeremy Clarkson driving schools could pop up everywhere.

Smart as a horse and hung like Einstein.


spunkycumfun 63M/69F
41171 posts
7/27/2013 1:08 am

    Quoting GimmeAThrill:
    I see what you're saying... we need to make driving less safe! Less safe cars, fewer road rules and limits.. yeah! I can see it now! Jeremy Clarkson driving schools could pop up everywhere.
Jeremy Clarkson driving schools, now that's an idea!


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