Brain Transplant

I had an appointment at the cardiologist and after my 10,000 mile check up, he asked if I had any other problems. I told him that I need a brain transplant, but the problem there is no earthworm is willing to be a donor. He commented that there will be such an attempt this year - to transplant a brain.

From my followup I discovered there is or will be more than one attempt to do such an operation. The earliest will be in December and involve a man whose brain is good, but his body is bad. Therefore, the attempt will be to take his entire head and put it on a body that works. The donor is "brain dead" and cannot be revived.

At this point, are you believing this? It’s true. I know right about now you are thinking about an old Frankenstein movie - if you’ve ever seen one.

In this "head transplant or body transplant," the recipient will be kept in a coma for three to four weeks. And, if you have seen a Frankenstein movie, they will have real implanted electrodes to strengthen new never connections in the spinal cord.

Other doctors are looking into using brains from those people that choose cryonics - the practice or technique of deep-freezing the bodies of people who have just died, in the hope that scientific advances may allow them to be revived in the future. I wonder if this is successful, if the patient wakes up and the first thing he says is, "Turn up the heat."

Just think. Someday you may be able to get a new body and keep on trucking.

But, remember, an old brain is still an old brain.

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