See, I knew your curiosity would be piqued by the headline!
Thanks for stopping by. OK, here's the deal on this story:
I've heard of this before. Dad is in the workshop, slices off his fingers and through the miracle of modern medicine *POOF* Dad's toe is now sitting squarely on his hand as a thumb.
Don't get me wrong, I think it's wonderful that dad has his opposable thumb-toe. But now he's a 4-toed dad with some balance problems that requires months of physical therapy to overcome.
As I read this today and then read about Illinois' organ donation program having 3 million people registered it dawned on me:
Why can't we have donor limbs?
Well, as I found out, we do. It's just very rare and very complicated.
In order to do a limb transplant of any kind the bone marrow of the donor limb must be very close to that of the person who needs the limb.
The chances of that, as you can imagine, is one in a million.
My advice? If you aren't a donor already and it's not against your religious beliefs, become a tissue donor.
Illinois reached a milestone by hitting 3 million people on the donor registry.
By joining it, not only could it help others who need an organ transplant... but perhaps your neighbor--who just happened to let his or her finger get in the way of the band saw in the workshop.
