Waynetho wrote:LeRoastBeef wrote:Wow, cadaver tissue, I didn't know they could do that.
Cool, must be a bit surreal. Cool though.
Yep, as a matter of fact, a lot of grafts are made from cadaver tissue and Coloplast even has a trademarked name for their cadaver tissue graft product. It's not fresh from the cadaver though. It's been denatured and processed first. This isn't unusual as they use cadaver skin for burn victims and they process that "product" by perforating it so it can be expanded over large areas of a burn.
I believe that we're living in a pretty good age of medicine. My older brother had a son that was only a few years younger than me. Kid was type 1 from a very young age. Had a kidney transplant & it was starting to fail. He died suddenly I think about 15 years ago. I ended up type 2, dove in head first on my glucose control. Use pills & insulin, A1C shows that my control is quite good. Talked to my brother about my progress. The nephew died before the home glucose tests really got going. As I thought about this. I realized just how much 1 part of healthcare has changed in just a short time. Made me sad to see that he had missed out on the new technology.
I see a similar thing amongst my male relatives. Seems that most had died around 75 years old. Right now I have 3 that have blown past that age.
Even the new covid vaccine. To get several to market in less than a year seems like a miracle from my point of view.