Comments on: Girl Survives 118 Days Without a Heart

By: Rocky Rook

Rocky Rook — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 02:42:04 +0000

Tony Stark had a cool machine to deal with this problem.

By: Evilbeagle

Evilbeagle — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 12:51:55 +0000

It has been done before, but yeah, I have to agree that it's pretty amazing that it can be done at all.

By: vero4902

vero4902 — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 12:42:36 +0000

I agree with Boll - I've heard of this before, I didn't think it was very rare. Amazing nonetheless though.

By: nick

nick — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:43:41 +0000

oscar beat me to it

By: raina_c

raina_c — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 05:16:51 +0000

That's an amazing story.

By: stacyj

stacyj — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 01:59:58 +0000

That really is interesting how the presence or absence of an organic heart should figure so centrally into our idea of "personhood" ... uhm, not that it shouldn't, of course, but something about the notion of having a completely artificial heart IS somehow uniquely disturbing ... would she have felt as "fake" if she'd had, say, an artificial liver or mechanical kidneys? (Total geek points to Carlos Mal for the Catwoman reference, btw - you made my day, man =)

By: Oscar Zoroaster

Oscar Zoroaster — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 01:02:00 +0000

I was married to a heartless bitch once

By: renderanything

renderanything — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:20:42 +0000

When I read this story earlier this week it pointed out that her case is somewhat special because these sort of devices are rarely used on children and teenagers. I still think it's amazing.

By: ted

ted — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 23:03:11 +0000

How would she not be a real person?

I guess it would be pretty freaky.

By: Samantha

Samantha — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:46:31 +0000

Isn't science grand?

By: Carlos Mal

Carlos Mal — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:33:30 +0000

I'm gonna geek this up: Catwoman undertook a very similar ordeal recently, when Hush removed her heart and kept her alive so Batman would suffer.

Oh my God.

By: BOLL

BOLL — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 20:42:14 +0000

Not sure how special this really is... currently I _personally_ know a pre-teen child who has been without a real heart for more than seven months. She has a mechanical heart from Germany to keep her alive while waiting for a donor. It runs on compressed air, apparently a fairly knew technology as she gets visited by a whole lot of doctors and students to see it.

By: Ali S.

Ali S. — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 20:30:12 +0000

Wow. That must have been pretty scary for her to go through knowing that she may or may not get a donated heart. Good to hear she got one and is doing well.