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.