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Patti
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Username: transplantmommy07
Post Number: 1273
Registered: 01-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 07, 2008 - 07:39 am: | 
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Has anyone ever seen the movie 'The Eye?' I watched it Sunday night and it really made me think about things.
This girl had a cornea transplant and was seeing things that were rather freaky. She was sure that it was visions from her donor. In the end, they were visions that her donor was showing her for the future. Her donor knew that something was going to happen and wanted her to stop it. It was really weird.
Anyway, the point of my thread, if you knew that something like this really happened in life, would you want to receive the transplant or give your organs? I know that the movie is fiction but it really makes you think about things when you watch something like that. I was thinking about the possibility of Brady having a cornea transplant some day and him seeing what his donor saw and thought it was rather freaky. I don't think the movie would hold me back from him getting a cornea or me giving my organs, but it was just a thought when I was watching the movie.
Patti
Double lung and liver Tx, 1/31/07
1st one at the Cleveland Clinic
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DAP1122
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Username: dap1122
Post Number: 261
Registered: 05-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 07, 2008 - 08:15 am: |
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Patti,
There have been some pretty well documented cases of "cellular memory" published. As far as I know, I have not experienced anything to this point.
Am I worried out it? No
Have I thought about it? Only a few times ~ but more along the line of why do I eat onions now, but not before my transplant. Or similar thoughts.
One of the problems with organ donations in the movies and television shows is that there usually are no where close to being factual. The only show I've seen recently that was fact based, was "Hopkins" this summer. It showed the fears, the anguish, the tears of our reality. The movies don't show us Tx folks in a realistic light .......... which is sad.
DAP
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Hostess Risa
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Username: risa
Post Number: 6633
Registered: 05-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 07, 2008 - 07:02 pm: |
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Hi Patti
What network was the move on? Sounds like a strange move with an interesting Sci-Fi twist
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Patti
Member
Username: transplantmommy07
Post Number: 1275
Registered: 01-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 07, 2008 - 08:54 pm: |
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Risa,
I rented it from Blockbuster this past weekend.
DAP,
I know that movies and television can make up some pretty freaky things that are totally off the wall and not true but this movie was weird because of the fact of cellular memory with many Tx patients. There are things that I like now that I didn't like before and things that I did like that don't like now.
The most freaky thing with me is that I thought that the docs had lost me during transplant and they said that they didn't. Then I heard a little while later that my donor "flatlined" and they were working on him/her to try to bring them back.
Anyway, knowing that, I would not want a potential recipient to receive some of the memories that I have were I able to donate any of my organs.
Patti
Double lung and liver Tx, 1/31/07
1st one at the Cleveland Clinic
Forum Leader
Life is not measured by the breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away. |
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KatieVT
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Username: katievt
Post Number: 9
Registered: 08-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 08, 2008 - 05:41 pm: |
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This is an interesting subject!
My brother received a kidney from my father. My father is a vegetarian, though he eats fish. Since the transplant, my brother doesn't like meat as much. He still eats it, but would rather eat the fish that my dad gets served.
Katie
Senor-Loken syndrome - Juvenile Nephronophthisis and Retinitis Pigmentosa
Kidney Transplant 4/16/08 from an altruistic donor |
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missamber
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Username: Missamber
Post Number: 72
Registered: 05-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 06, 2009 - 02:30 pm: |
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I think cellular memory is a real possibility and actually experienced something similar. A while back I woke up and there was a song in my head by the beach boys, but now I don't remember the actual song ... but I remember telling my husband that I couldn't get that song out of my head. Well later my brother (my donor)told me that him and his wife had been to a show that night and they were playing/singing songs by the beach boys and he didn't like how they played this particular song, the same one that was stuck in my mind that morning! Anyway, I think it's very cool that there are doctors studying this phenomena. |
Hostess Risa
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Username: Risa
Post Number: 8952
Registered: 05-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 06, 2009 - 06:31 pm: |
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Hi MisAmber
That is a really C L story!
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