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<blockquote data-quote="cmhbob" data-source="post: 1757766" data-attributes="member: 20220"><p>Cheney has had heart problems for 30+ years. This wasn't exactly a sudden decision on anyone's part.</p><p></p><p>I doubt anyone got "bumped." That's not the way the system works. When they get a donor organ, they look for a tissue match first locally, then regionally, then nationally. Rank on the list is determined by your overall condition. My MIL technically waited 8 months for her heart, but for the first two of those months, she probably wasn't strong enough to survive the surgery.</p><p></p><p>Transplants can still be a crap shoot. Two stories from my MIL's time in the hospital. </p><ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Heart was located. Recipient is opened. Old heart removed. New heart attached, and <em>t doesn't start up.</em> They tried for 20 minutes to restart the new heart, and no dice. Put out a call for another heart. Within an hour, they had one located, and an hour later, they had it in. It worked. Patient was on a heart-lung machine for something like 5+ hours.<br /> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Another patient had arrived at the hospital right around the same time as my MIL. Eerily similar progression of cases - like within hours of one thing happening to one of them, a very similar issue would happen to the other. No relationship at all prior. He got his heart the day before she did. But he developed a major infection and never made it out of the recovery ICU.</li> </ol></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cmhbob, post: 1757766, member: 20220"] Cheney has had heart problems for 30+ years. This wasn't exactly a sudden decision on anyone's part. I doubt anyone got "bumped." That's not the way the system works. When they get a donor organ, they look for a tissue match first locally, then regionally, then nationally. Rank on the list is determined by your overall condition. My MIL technically waited 8 months for her heart, but for the first two of those months, she probably wasn't strong enough to survive the surgery. Transplants can still be a crap shoot. Two stories from my MIL's time in the hospital. [list=1] [*]Heart was located. Recipient is opened. Old heart removed. New heart attached, and [i]t doesn't start up.[/i] They tried for 20 minutes to restart the new heart, and no dice. Put out a call for another heart. Within an hour, they had one located, and an hour later, they had it in. It worked. Patient was on a heart-lung machine for something like 5+ hours. [*]Another patient had arrived at the hospital right around the same time as my MIL. Eerily similar progression of cases - like within hours of one thing happening to one of them, a very similar issue would happen to the other. No relationship at all prior. He got his heart the day before she did. But he developed a major infection and never made it out of the recovery ICU. [/list] [/QUOTE]
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