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Rocket Heart
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Username: Rocketheart583
Post Number: 378
Registered: 08-2007
| | Posted on Friday, June 25, 2010 - 10:09 am: | 
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Watched the new show on ABC last night - the first thing they started out with was 2 ladies getting a single lung transplant and another patient getting a heart transplant - all from the same donor - very graphic and honestly depicted - real Doctors and patients.
Both ladies came out doing very well. Pretty interesting series.
Rocket Heart
Tom Emahiser
Waterville, Oh
Heart Failure
Heart Txplt 1/26/05 University of Michigan |
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Jay Lackritz
Member
Username: Jay_ny
Post Number: 270
Registered: 01-2007
| | Posted on Friday, June 25, 2010 - 11:58 am: |
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If you missed it, you can catch the full episode here:
http://abc.go.com/watch/boston-med/SH5570013/VD5573174/episode-1?cid=fullepisodeaccess_search
http://tinyurl.com/24gohrz
This show is from the same folks who brought us the earlier reality medical show "Hopkins".
Here's their home page with information, videos, and episode guide:
http://bostonmed.abcnews.go.com/
Review of show:
http://www.avclub.com/articles/boston-med-episode-1,42349/
Jay Lackritz@Optonline.net
http://Lackritz.net
Bilateral Lung TX, May 10, 2007, Columbia University Medical Center/NYPH
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dcfvz4r4_0hqhtpd9c
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dcfvz4r4_1gb4cjfcx |
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Jo
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Username: Oxygirl
Post Number: 142
Registered: 05-2009
| | Posted on Saturday, June 26, 2010 - 12:24 am: |
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Loved the show!! I agree in that it was very realistic and showed the successes and failures in the medical field. I of course was especially interested in the two lung transplants!
Dx with BOOP Nov 2004
Listed Dbl Lung Tx Jan 13 2010
Emory Hospital Atlanta |
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Rocket Heart
Member
Username: Rocketheart583
Post Number: 379
Registered: 08-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, June 26, 2010 - 10:38 am: |
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I was interested in the lungs too. Have seen plenty of heart transplants but never a lung - pretty darned cool if you ask me - especially when they pink up - loved it!!
Rocket Heart
Tom Emahiser
Waterville, Oh
Heart Failure
Heart Txplt 1/26/05 University of Michigan |
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Jack
Member
Username: Johnhollenbach56
Post Number: 115
Registered: 12-2009
| | Posted on Sunday, June 27, 2010 - 12:14 pm: |
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Well I thought the show seemed to be pretty good for one that tried to show the process in their time frame, my one criticism would be showing the lung recipients leaving the hospital as if it was an out patient surgery, don’t think anyone gets out quite that quickly . . . (forgive me, I recorded it and finally watched it the other night).
Jack Hollenbach
jack_hollenbach@hotmail.com
Received double lung transplant August 2, 2007 for COPD at UCSD Thornton Hospital, San Diego, CA
Live each day to your fullest, for it is a gift to be treasured |
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Marina
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Username: Marina
Post Number: 94
Registered: 08-2009
| | Posted on Sunday, June 27, 2010 - 06:39 pm: |
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I thought I had missed the show, but thanks to the link, I got to watch it today.
GREAT SHOW!!!!
thank you Jay for posting the link!!!
awaiting kidney-pancreas since Aug 22, 2008
California Pacific Medical center CPMC San francisco, CA
BELIEVE!!!!!!!!!! |
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Denise IN
Member
Username: Djragland
Post Number: 9
Registered: 01-2010
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 30, 2010 - 03:13 pm: |
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When this aired I was in Cleveland being evaluated. Today is the first time I have been able to see it. As for the time frame the police officer was in the hospital for 8 days, I had the impression of the transplant ladies were there longer.
FANTASTIC SHOW!!!
Thank You Jay, I thought I had missed out on it.
Denise IN 57 FEV1 21% O2 24/7 forever it seems like!
dx in 1998 awaiting evaluation at CC
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BreathinSteven
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Username: Breathinsteven
Post Number: 2097
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 30, 2010 - 05:04 pm: |
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Hey Jack!
How long were you in? I have cystic fibrosis -- my FEV1/FVC was around 10% when I went in after a wait of almost 3 years... I was out of the hospital in 6 days. And in 10 years, I've never been back...
That wasn't completely abnormal 10 years ago -- the average stay back then was only 8 days... With the new Lung Allocation Scoring system, hospital stays have actually gone up... With the new LAS system, in the grand scheme of things, sicker people are being transplanted and recovery takes longer. Back before the LAS system, many of those sicker people died before transplant...
Love, Steve
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Jack
Member
Username: Johnhollenbach56
Post Number: 124
Registered: 12-2009
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 30, 2010 - 05:35 pm: |
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Hi Steve,
I was in about a month I guess, 1 week in ICU, then 2 1/2 weeks in a private room. I know the recovery time is much shorter now, especially with the 'two cut' method as opposed to the older style 'clamshell' I had. 6 days seems a short stay, especially for 10 years ago - did you need to have isolation at home or were you out & about then? The folks I've spoken with that have the shorter stays were more or less isolated at home as opposed to remaining in the hospital - when I got out, I rested a day or so but was pretty much through the isolation period.
Stay well,
Jack
Jack Hollenbach
jack_hollenbach@hotmail.com
Received double lung transplant August 2, 2007 for COPD at UCSD Thornton Hospital, San Diego, CA
Live each day to your fullest, for it is a gift to be treasured |
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BreathinSteven
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Username: Breathinsteven
Post Number: 2098
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 30, 2010 - 06:09 pm: |
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Hey Jack!!!
Actually -- what I'm getting at is that recovery times are LONGER now -- hospital stays and recover times are longer because patients tend to be sicker at the time of transplant... LAS assures that the sickest patients are transplanted the quickest (factoring in the likelihood of survival)... That wasn't the case before May 2005, when the "time served" protocol was used... Too many people weren't suriving to transplant -- so the group being transplanted were, on average, healthier because the sickest sometimes didn't make it... The new system is working as it was hoped it would...
Nope -- I didn't have isolation at home... I had the vent out 12 hours after my surgery -- I was never even conscious with the vent in -- they brought me out as they were removing it... I was out of ICU in two days, but that was only because they couldn't locate a room on the transplant floor after one day...
When I got home -- I wore a mask when I stepped out of the house... But we were walking in the courtyard of our building the following day... I walked 1/2 miles to Starbucks two days later... We doubled our walking distance every day for 2-3 weeks -- walking outdoors, around downtown Chicago where we live... So nope -- no "isolation"...
Love, Steve
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Marina
Member
Username: Marina
Post Number: 96
Registered: 08-2009
| | Posted on Thursday, July 01, 2010 - 07:50 pm: |
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Hey Folks,
just a quick reminder: It's Thursday, Boston Med night!
awaiting kidney-pancreas since Aug 22, 2008
California Pacific Medical center CPMC San francisco, CA
BELIEVE!!!!!!!!!! |
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Jo
Member
Username: Oxygirl
Post Number: 145
Registered: 05-2009
| | Posted on Saturday, July 17, 2010 - 01:11 am: |
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Boston Med is the BEST new show on tv. Every week is so exciting and emotional, especially for people like us. Try and tune in on thursr 10 pm est, or wach episodes on your computer. I promise, you'll love it!
Dx with BOOP Nov 2004
Listed Dbl Lung Tx Jan 13 2010
Emory Hospital Atlanta |
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