The heart transplant patient took and shot himself, just like his donor
Twelve years ago, Sonny Graham was on the verge of death, his heart refused. Fortunately, the doctors managed to find a donor. The heart belonged to 33-year-old Terry Cottle, who committed suicide by shooting himself in the head with a gun.
Pearcell, like Schwartz, has his own "clip" of examples when a person has changed after a donor organ transplant. A 41-year-old man got the heart of a 19-year-old girl who died under the wheels of a train. After the operation, the patient seemed to be replaced: from childhood, a slow, reasonable person had a violent temperament, sharpness of movements, a frenzied interest in life, which was never characteristic of him.
A 36-year-old woman received a heart and lung transplant from a 20-year-old girl who died under the wheels while hurrying to meet her fiance. After that, she often began to dream of happy meetings with her beloved young man. “Happiness overwhelms me now,” she says. - As often as now, I never laughed, - this is stated by everyone who knows me from an early age.
“Another 36-year-old woman received a heart transplant from a 24-year-old college student. After that, from cold and shy, she turned into a passionate mistress, began to pester her husband every night. You have turned into some kind of prostitute,”the husband once said. Then they learned that the student whose heart is now carried by his wife was earning money for her studies like a call girl."
A 52-year-old patient who has loved classical music all his life and despised rock music, now, without taking off his headphones, he listens to wild rock almost without interruption. He got the heart of a 17-year-old who crashed on a motorcycle.
A 47-year-old woman received the heart of a 23-year-old homosexual man who was shot in the back. Her strange sexual fantasies now amaze her husband.
"Gifts" that change lives
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The operation was successful and soon Graham contacted the donor's family to thank them. He began to write letters to Cottle's widow, 39-year-old Cheryl. Then an affair began between them, and four years ago they got married.
And the other day Mrs. Graham became a widow. For the second time. Her husband shot himself under circumstances similar to the suicide of Cottle's first husband.
Friends say that Sonny Graham did not suffer from depression and are at a loss as to what could have caused his voluntary departure from life.
British doctors say that they know more than 70 cases when patients who underwent organ transplant surgery radically changed their preferences, adopting the personal characteristics of the donor. So, last month, Sharyl Johnson, a resident of the English city of Preston, said that a donor kidney, which she transplanted in May 2007, "gave her" some of the habits of its original owner, who died at the age of 59 from aneurysm.
“After the operation, Cheryl's literary preferences changed completely. If earlier she preferred biographies of celebrities and bestsellers like The Da Vinci Code ", now she reads Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment and Jane Austen's Reasoning All night long."
Another Englishman, Ian Gammelns, who underwent a kidney transplant at the end of 2006, also unexpectedly began to notice that his hobbies had changed dramatically. If earlier he could not imagine life without watching the rugby championship in the evening, now his greatest love has become making buns!
Ian has been married to his wife Linda for 33 years and, by his own admission, has never liked to cook before. But after the operation, everything changed dramatically.
He considers his wife to be the reason for the changes that took place in him, since it was she who acted as a donor. At the same time, the man is not going to blame her for his new habits. On the contrary, he is delighted with them. As he confesses, there is nothing more pleasant in the world than making breakfast or dinner. Moreover, one of his biggest weaknesses was shopping, and his wife's beloved dog, whom Ian previously despised, now became an object of adoration.
“It sounds ridiculous, but I really loved to cook, and, above all, muffins and pies. My daughters say that they are especially tasty for me. I also noticed that I began to rely more on intuition, and she, in turn, began to let me down less often, - says Ian. - All these changes came as a big surprise to me, but I do not regret them at all. I became closer to my wife. Closer than in all 30 plus years of marriage."
He started cooking after heart transplant surgery and, never before that was fond of cooking, Kharkiv resident Eduard Sokolov. And not just cook, but create, create real gourmand masterpieces, delighting the wife and daughter and guests with gastronomic delights.
"Experts explain this phenomenon by the theory of cellular memory." It is based on the assumption that cells remember and repeat the character traits of the previous host."
“According to scientists, the changes that are taking place with organ donor recipients are indeed possible, there are many such examples. American doctors are aware of cases when, for example, after an operation, a Massachusetts resident, who was afraid of heights, became a climber, a Milwaukee lawyer who hated everything sweet fell in love with chocolate bars, and a young Hawaiian resident after a heart transplant suddenly felt the desire to study music and poetry. The donor, it turns out, was a young man who wrote songs and poems. It turned out that the recipient of the organ somehow remembered his verses, which she could not hear anywhere."
I don't want to scare people
Renowned professor of psychology and medicine Gary Schwartz, who founded the Human Energy Systems Laboratory at the University of Arizona, has written several books on the subject. His research caused a real sensation in the world scientific community.
“According to the professor, at least 10% of people who have had heart, lung, kidney or liver transplants experience strange mental changes. In his opinion, together with the organs of the donor, a person acquires the inclinations and habits of their former and natural owner. An incredible personality change is taking place, "notes the professor."
Cases have been established when a patient, for unknown reasons, after an internal organ transplant operation completely changed his eating habits and even his lifestyle. At the same time, as it turned out, these behavioral traits were characteristic of donors from whom the organs were obtained. Moreover, those operated on often show new talents that they have received from donors.
“My research raises, among other things, a major ethical issue, but I am convinced that people awaiting organ transplants should be warned about the possible consequences of their personality change,” says Professor Schwartz. "I don't want to scare people, my task is to help them understand the situation."
In his opinion, human internal organs have their own biochemical memory and energy. Transplanted into a new organism, they release elements into the bloodstream that can lead to changes in psychosomatic reflexes that cannot be controlled by the brain.
“According to the professor, he knows dozens of cases that confirm his conclusions. So, in one example, a young ballerina from New York Sylvia Claire received a heart-lung complex. " Before the transplant, she led a healthy lifestyle, but after being discharged from the hospital, the first thing she did was go to a fast food restaurant and ate nuggets. Before, she would never allow herself that."
In addition, the girl's character changed, she became aggressive and hot-tempered. It turned out that Sylvia, not knowing the person whose organs she got, completely adopted his habits, mentality and lifestyle. Moreover, at night she began to dream compulsively an attractive, mysterious guy with a tattoo on his arm “T. L.
She decided to find out who her donor was, and discovered that it was an 18-year-old boy who died in a motorcycle accident. His name was Tim, he was very aggressive, hot-tempered and more than anything in the world he loved nuggets. They were even found at the place of death …
Another notable case concerns an eight-year-old girl who had the heart transplanted to another, a 10-year-old girl who was the victim of a brutal murder. After the transplant, the child began to have nightmares in which the child became the victim of a killer.
The nightmares turned out to be so strong that the parents were forced to take their daughter to a psychiatrist. What the doctor heard convinced him that it was about the circumstances of the death of the donor girl. This information provided to the police proved to be so accurate that the killer was identified and caught!
Schwartz's research caused a great resonance in the world scientific community. Most transplant doctors consider the professor's ideas to be pseudoscientific inventions. But, fortunately, not all.
Academician of the Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine Vitaliy Kordyum, having familiarized himself with the sensational statement of Gary Schwartz, said: “It often happens that the gender of the donor does not matter for the recipient, a man-woman pair turns out to be more convenient, especially when there is no time to wait and the countdown of life goes on for hours. minutes.
Naturally, if a sufficiently massive block of tissue is transplanted - liver, lung, heart - then the immune tissue goes along with it and much more. Since all cells have the appropriate receptors and secrete a little bit of anything, then, in general, this can lead to the consequences suggested by Dr. Schwartz."
The chief freelance transplantologist of the Ministry of Health of Belarus, Professor Anatoly Uss also does not reject the conclusions of the American researcher. “Any human tissue is reasonable,” he told one of the Belarusian publications. - Even a microbe has its own "intelligence". Therefore, it is natural that living tissue, getting into an alien environment, begins to show its "character".
Apparently, there is a mutual influence of the transplanted organs and the human body on each other, which leads to a change in both external and internal components of a person. I spoke with the husband of a woman who had undergone one of the transplants. At the end of the conversation, he asked how he assesses family life after the organ transplant. The man replied that there are no problems, everything is fine. True, my wife's character deteriorated - it became as bad as her sister, who was a donor …"
The heart knows a lot
“A colleague of Professor Schwartz on the study of the phenomenon of cellular memory is Detroit physiologist Paul Pearsell. After examining the medical records of 140 patients who had been transplanted with someone else's heart, and talking with each of them, he wrote a book Heart Code based on the observations made."
“The conclusion of the physician, which is published by the German edition of Express, is this: our soul or character is placed not in the brain, but in the heart
Pearcell, like Schwartz, has his own "clip" of examples when a person has changed after a donor organ transplant. A 41-year-old man got the heart of a 19-year-old girl who died under the wheels of a train. After the operation, the patient seemed to be replaced: from childhood, a slow, reasonable person had a violent temperament, sharpness of movements, a frenzied interest in life, which was never characteristic of him.
A 36-year-old woman received a heart and lung transplant from a 20-year-old girl who died under the wheels while hurrying to meet her fiance. After that, she often began to dream of happy meetings with her beloved young man. “Happiness overwhelms me now,” she says. - As often as now, I never laughed, - this is stated by everyone who knows me from an early age.
»Another 36-year-old woman received a heart transplant from a 24-year-old college student. After that, from cold and shy, she turned into a passionate mistress, began to pester her husband every night. You have turned into some kind of prostitute,”the husband once said. Then they found out that the student whose heart is now carried by his wife was earning money for her studies as a call girl."
A 52-year-old patient who has loved classical music all his life and despised rock music, now, without taking off his headphones, he listens to wild rock almost without interruption. He got the heart of a 17-year-old who crashed on a motorcycle.
A 47-year-old woman received the heart of a 23-year-old homosexual man who was shot in the back. Her strange sexual fantasies now amaze her husband.
“The main advice of Dr. Pearcell's book is: Listen to your heart! It knows a lot."
In principle, people who, as a result of organ transplants, have found not only a new life, but also new habits, often shocking, from the conclusions of scientists about cellular memory is unlikely to become easier. In the end, they should not demand that the organ implanted in their body be replaced with another, more "suitable" one.
Therefore, there can be only one way out of this situation: to try to shake out of the surgeons a solid compensation for the irreparable harm caused to the patient's soul during the operation …
Meanwhile, in Australia, a 15-year-old girl changed from negative to positive Rh blood after liver transplant surgery. An amazing event happened at Westmead Children's Hospital in Sydney with Demi-Lee Brennan.
In addition, almost all leukocytes in blood began to have a male genotype. Australian media in this regard note that the liver donor was a man.
Doctors explain the situation by the fact that blood stem cells from the donor liver were somehow able to completely displace the patient's own hematopoietic cells in the bone marrow. Obviously, this was facilitated by a viral infection, which weakened Demi-Lee's immunity immediately after a liver transplant.
However, for the patient, such a development of events is quite favorable, since, having received, in addition to the new liver, the donor's immune system, she may not take toxic immunosuppressive drugs to prevent the rejection of the donor organ.
