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One Heartless Canadian
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Friday, December 15, 2006
11:35:00 AM EST
Hearing Jet Fighter -- The Three O' Clock
No, he doesn't club baby seals. He just doesn't have a heart. Or a pulse:
A 65-year-old Quebec man who received a new long-term mechanical heart last month is being described as the only living Canadian without a pulse.
Which ask the question, why limit this to Canada? Is there anyone else walking around like this?
I think this is pretty awesome. I've generally wondered if it wouldn't be more efficient not to have a muscle that jerks and twitches like a heart does. All that start-and-stop seems like a fine way to wear out a heart. Mind you, I'm not in a rush to replace my heart with one of these things. But I'll tell you, if I had to get an artificial heart implanted, I'd want one of these. Because then I could walk around saying "I have no pulse! I'm a zombie! BRAINS!" And yes, I would do that. They'd be swapping out my heart, not my brain.
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11:35:00 AM EST
Hearing Jet Fighter -- The Three O' Clock
One Heartless Canadian
No, he doesn't club baby seals. He just doesn't have a heart. Or a pulse:
A 65-year-old Quebec man who received a new long-term mechanical heart last month is being described as the only living Canadian without a pulse.
Dr. Renzo Cecere implanted the “Heartmate II” mechanical heart into Gerard Langevin in an three-hour operation Nov. 23.
“Mr. Langevin happens to be the only individual currently living in Canada without a pulse and without a measurable blood pressure,” Dr. Cecere said Wednesday.Which ask the question, why limit this to Canada? Is there anyone else walking around like this?
I think this is pretty awesome. I've generally wondered if it wouldn't be more efficient not to have a muscle that jerks and twitches like a heart does. All that start-and-stop seems like a fine way to wear out a heart. Mind you, I'm not in a rush to replace my heart with one of these things. But I'll tell you, if I had to get an artificial heart implanted, I'd want one of these. Because then I could walk around saying "I have no pulse! I'm a zombie! BRAINS!" And yes, I would do that. They'd be swapping out my heart, not my brain.
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Yes, laughingcoyote, there is blood pressure. If you read the quote, it says "without *measurable* blood pressure. As blood pressure is measured by monitoring the pulse, his is unmeasurable.
-Paul
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Well, there's gotta be some blood pressure there, just not distolic and sistolic (I think those are the terms).
"Baby, I love you, my heart beats only for you. Wait, where are you going?" -
Whoa... This freaky in a cool way! Who knows how many "heartless" people there will be in the world in the future?! Julie
12/15/06 11:01 PM