Goodbye, goodbye to David's home dialysis machine! For 22 months we've alternately blessed and cursed this large hunk of metal that took over our house and our lives. No one cried yesterday when it was loaded onto the semi. We won't miss the infections, alarms, boxes of supplies, or betadine spills on the sheets.
Also, goodbye and thanks to Dr. Willem Kolff, the inventor of the modern dialysis machine. Known in medical circles as "the father of artificial organs," Dr. Kolff was one of a team of surgeons who made headlines worldwide when they implanted the first artificial heart at University Hospital here in Utah. He died Feb 11 at the age of 97. Be sure to Google his name and read about blood pumping thru sausage casings, an old Ford water pump, and parts from a downed German Fighter.. He and Southern moonshiners would have gotten along just fine!
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Hurrah for the good doctor and all the lives saved by his invention. You are so right about the moonshiners - they might even have helped the doc with his research. Give David a big hug for us and we also send one to you - do you feel all the love coming your way!?! I hope so.
oh I have been feeling SOO Loved! thanks
WAY TO GO DAVID!!! Perhaps the extra space could be filled with a home ice cream maker or perhaps a new big screen TV for David to watch. Anything but that machine!!
I could have told you that you could have wrapped some tin foil around the coils and gotten a better yield from the "moonshine blood cleaner". LOL :)
On another note; There is a proposal to build a new race track on Duck Thurmond road...
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