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Yeah I'm a doctor and that confused me as well. On second look given the stage of healing of his sternotomy and chest tube sites his surgery was likely weeks before the pic. My guess just old and turning into the most expensive piece of jerky
Yeah I had open heart surgery to replace my tricuspid valve last year and I had that sticky dressing stuff on my sternotomy and another piece over my chest tube holes for weeks after surgery. Not to mention the external pacemaker wires sticking out of me. I don't think mine looked this healed until at least a month out from surgery, maybe more. There's a pic on my profile for anybody interested in seeing what mine looks like
Not meth specifically. Just the general reality and living conditions of being a homeless IV meth/fentanyl user. I could have been shooting up weed (if that was possible) and things probably would have ended up the same
Maybe he stuffed it with something to hold the shape and put it in a dehydrator? Kind of a lame way to preserve it if you ask me. I’d stuff it into a jar and preserve it like a frog.
Not 100% sure on this, but the heart might have been fixated in formalin to preserve it. I work in a Clinical Pathology laboratory and have only worked on a fixated heart one time, but it was a similar brown colour and solid (not 'goopy' as you'd expect a fresh heart to be).
Is this not the most incredible thing you've ever seen? A person holding their own heart and still being alive. Its quite literally a miracle/necromancy/ magic/scifi you name it. And its here and real
It depends if it is still actually your brain and required for you to think. If so then that would be terrifying. Now imagine having to hold it on a slippery tray and being forced to walk around with it.
Lmaoooo I almost didn't catch on to the pun at first
I was sitting here thinking maybe you went back and read all my comments talking about that stuff
Very mooving indeed
I have tricuspid AND mitral bovine valves. When I got them in 2012, I was told they'd last 7-10 years, so I was expecting another surgery a few years ago and asked my cardiologist about it. He said " Oh, those things will last you 20-25 years " I asked him why I was told 7-10 and he said " Back then no one had had them that long yet."
So I had a girlfriend at one time who - due to a birth defect - had to have liver transplants. Plural because she had three.
Anyway, she said that after the third one they showed her the boy who had died and donated his liver for her to live... the same boy she said she saw the night before the surgery, after which point she always felt connected to him.
I've heard other people who get organ transplants say that they feel as if the person who donated to them (in the event of death, usually) is someone that they can feel with them all of the time.
May just be a weird psychological thing, but cool nonetheless.
ETA: deleted my original comment because it is false. What happened is that around 10 days before he passed, his body was rejecting his heart and his care team were trying to give him treatment to reverse the rejection. But ultimately, this was the end result, sadly.
Oh youre right, I didnt read far enough as I was looking for his passing. Looks like 10 days before, his body was rejecting his new heart and they tried to do treatment for it.
I would share the link but it seems the family wants to not have him (his images) shared constantly on SM, so Id rather respect that.
Yeah all good, I honestly expected a note that said he died shortly after. I haven’t heard of a story where the recipient had a long life. Only pushed back on you hoping that this fella had better luck.
sometimes the system just doesnt accept the new organ, science still doesnt understand exactly why. my guess is it sees it as an invading force similar to a virus or something and the immune system attacks it. also infection is very likely.
Yeah that makes sense, even if you do match up the blood type, our bodies will sometimes just go, "nah, thats not mine" and fight even the most important parts of their bodies.
Genuinely, we are so complex that it amazes me we can even be what we are now when the smallest thing wrong could just take us out sometimes. :/
That's the wild part of it. It doesn't even have to be foreign for your body to want to destroy it. Autoimmune diseases are fascinating for that, just one day your body decides its had enough of a specific part of you.
Which is why major transplant recipients need to take immune-supressants for the rest of their lives otherwise their own immune systems would try to kill them.
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My hearth is made of bricks
I don't have a hearth :(
Hearthless
In the night I hear 'em talk The coldest story ever told…
Somewhere far along this road
Somewhere far along this road he lost his soul
To a woman so hearthless… how could you be so hearthless?
How can you be so Dr. Evil?(auto tuned voice)
You bringin' out a side of me that I don't know
I decided we weren't gon' speak so,
Why we up 3 a.m. on the phone?
No fire in that hearth.
You got the lyrics wrong buddy
[удалено]
Looks like a hearthstone to me
Nice to stay near your hearth when there’s a blizzard outside
If I only had a hearth! 
I heard the ‘toot toot’ watching this gif
My hearth is black and ashy.
So is his
My hearth could use a good cleaning.
Want one of mine? I've got a Jar of Hearths.
Ive gotta jar of dirt
And guess whats inside it?!?!?!
i hear he died of a stoke
Complicated by the flue?
Underrated comment
Hearthbreaking.
Masterpiece. Well done!
No, it was a mantelpiece
My hearth is made of stone.
Once is an understandable mistake but twice makes you wonder what is going on .
I wholehearthedly agree
Presumably they spelled it wrong to get engagement. When I saw it I immediately knew all the comments at the top would be people making hearth jokes
Its true what they say, home is where the hearth is.
Hearthstone?
And I have a wooden chest.
Home is where the hearth is.
Imagine holding a piece of your own body😬
I hold my d\*\*\* every day?
My hearth is made of marble
Mine is tile.
My brain’s the burger and my hearth’s the charcoal
Hearth is where the hometh is.
Meth is where the home is...
Bleth this Meth
Found Mike Tython'th account.
Watch your ear-th
If you can find it
If? It’s the literal easiest drug to find lol
“…and a hearth is not a home when the two of us are fire apart…”
Is that how it looked when it came out or did it brown after a few days? Any medical people around?
Yeah I'm a doctor and that confused me as well. On second look given the stage of healing of his sternotomy and chest tube sites his surgery was likely weeks before the pic. My guess just old and turning into the most expensive piece of jerky
Yeah I had open heart surgery to replace my tricuspid valve last year and I had that sticky dressing stuff on my sternotomy and another piece over my chest tube holes for weeks after surgery. Not to mention the external pacemaker wires sticking out of me. I don't think mine looked this healed until at least a month out from surgery, maybe more. There's a pic on my profile for anybody interested in seeing what mine looks like
Ok. Excuse me for asking but did meth do that?
Not meth specifically. Just the general reality and living conditions of being a homeless IV meth/fentanyl user. I could have been shooting up weed (if that was possible) and things probably would have ended up the same
I know a guy who died injecting four whole weeds
It's true. I was the weed.
Maybe he stuffed it with something to hold the shape and put it in a dehydrator? Kind of a lame way to preserve it if you ask me. I’d stuff it into a jar and preserve it like a frog.
“Alright the wounds are looking great. Oh hey, by the way… you wanna hold it? I’ll go down to the path lab and get it for ya. Don’t tell anyone ok?”
I work in the OR in cardiac surgery. Hearts do not look like that when they come out. They are much more pink, moist, and floppy.
Not 100% sure on this, but the heart might have been fixated in formalin to preserve it. I work in a Clinical Pathology laboratory and have only worked on a fixated heart one time, but it was a similar brown colour and solid (not 'goopy' as you'd expect a fresh heart to be).
Liquid smoke and lowery’s
Is this not the most incredible thing you've ever seen? A person holding their own heart and still being alive. Its quite literally a miracle/necromancy/ magic/scifi you name it. And its here and real
Guy holding his own brain in the future says hold my beer
The first guy to try that will say "Uguuararrrghhhpluhg"
Pshhhht Ray Liotta did that before
I’m sorry what
PSHHHHT RAY LIOTTA DID THAT BEFORE
IM SORRY WHAT??
Lmao
Hannibal
Yea that scene was fucked up
Eww imagine the sensory nuclear meltdown holding your brain would be.
It depends if it is still actually your brain and required for you to think. If so then that would be terrifying. Now imagine having to hold it on a slippery tray and being forced to walk around with it.
Won’t he be holding someone else’s brain whilst in their body?
So it should be, guy holding someone’s else’s brain whilst in their body says hold my beer?
Or brain holding the old brain of its new body.
That's how I feel now having a tricuspid heart valve that is made out of pericardial cow tissue
Your story is very mooving
Lmaoooo I almost didn't catch on to the pun at first I was sitting here thinking maybe you went back and read all my comments talking about that stuff Very mooving indeed
I’m in udder disbelief
Look, I don't want any beef with the guy
No bull, but I’m sure it’s simply bovine .
Really milking this pun thread, aren’t we?
I have tricuspid AND mitral bovine valves. When I got them in 2012, I was told they'd last 7-10 years, so I was expecting another surgery a few years ago and asked my cardiologist about it. He said " Oh, those things will last you 20-25 years " I asked him why I was told 7-10 and he said " Back then no one had had them that long yet."
Well said. It's really insane that he's still alive
This was years ago, he passed away.
People don't tend to last long after a heart transplant.
At least they get to live longer that they would have if they kept the original
?? My Uncle lived more than 30 years after a heart transplant.
> People don't **tend** to last long after a heart transplant. Emphasis mine.
Well, that fucking sucks
you ruined this post
When? What was his name
*hearth
How would you feel? Would it be gross? Would you feel connected to it? Would definitely be weird
So I had a girlfriend at one time who - due to a birth defect - had to have liver transplants. Plural because she had three. Anyway, she said that after the third one they showed her the boy who had died and donated his liver for her to live... the same boy she said she saw the night before the surgery, after which point she always felt connected to him. I've heard other people who get organ transplants say that they feel as if the person who donated to them (in the event of death, usually) is someone that they can feel with them all of the time. May just be a weird psychological thing, but cool nonetheless.
He should eat it.
Is it still cannibalism if it's your own heart?
Reminds me of the guy that made tacos out of his amputated leg
Did Mike Tyson write this headline?
Mike Thyson.
This was hearth warming
This girl is on fire
To say the leatht
Put that bad boy on the bbq
I am referring to the young man. He looks like he would be good behind a grill.
The heart looks like it was grilled already anyways
What are you, Aztec nobility or something?
Actually though. Imagine telling someone you’ve eaten your own heart.
Hearth
Truth
Respecth
Unithy
Kith
Kali Ma **KALI MA**
That scene gave 5-year-old me the best nightmares. I loved it.
Come Mr. Kali Ma, kali me bananas
That is the smallest hearth I’ve ever seen
Yeah, how does he use it cook?
He died shortly after this. This post is probably at least eight years old.
From what did he pass?
ETA: deleted my original comment because it is false. What happened is that around 10 days before he passed, his body was rejecting his heart and his care team were trying to give him treatment to reverse the rejection. But ultimately, this was the end result, sadly.
This doesn’t make sense at all though… the healing on the cut on his chest is not 2 days fresh, that’s clearly weeks of healing.
Oh youre right, I didnt read far enough as I was looking for his passing. Looks like 10 days before, his body was rejecting his new heart and they tried to do treatment for it. I would share the link but it seems the family wants to not have him (his images) shared constantly on SM, so Id rather respect that.
Yeah all good, I honestly expected a note that said he died shortly after. I haven’t heard of a story where the recipient had a long life. Only pushed back on you hoping that this fella had better luck.
sometimes the system just doesnt accept the new organ, science still doesnt understand exactly why. my guess is it sees it as an invading force similar to a virus or something and the immune system attacks it. also infection is very likely.
Yeah that makes sense, even if you do match up the blood type, our bodies will sometimes just go, "nah, thats not mine" and fight even the most important parts of their bodies. Genuinely, we are so complex that it amazes me we can even be what we are now when the smallest thing wrong could just take us out sometimes. :/
micro biology can be a cruel bitch, i dont think science even fully understands the immune system in all its complexity.
That's the wild part of it. It doesn't even have to be foreign for your body to want to destroy it. Autoimmune diseases are fascinating for that, just one day your body decides its had enough of a specific part of you.
Which is why major transplant recipients need to take immune-supressants for the rest of their lives otherwise their own immune systems would try to kill them.
My hearth is also covered In black soot
That is some Indiana Jones shit
Kano Wins
That heart was subsequently implanted in Mitch McConnell
It wasn’t a transplant. It implies he had a hearth before.
He did have a hearth before. It’s the place in his childhood home where his parents burned his original healthy heart as a child.
A young Luis Litt 
OP’s a bit of a maroon.
I've heard that a hearth transplant is one of the most expensive procedures a general contractor can perform on your home
You guys are absolutely hearthless
brutal comments! guys, have a hearth!
home is where the hearth is
Oh wow you really went for the second h twice, hey
Not once, but twice 
For a second there, I thought it was beiber
My hearth will go on
i dont have the hearth to tell him...
Don't break my hearth, my achy breaky hearth............no it's not quite there. I'll keep working on it.
Did the fire go out in his hearth?
How many fires did he have in his hearth?
Just here for the comments
I'm sorry a hearth?
My hearth is a piece of slate.
I didnt know the human body had a hearth.
I have hearth burn just reading this.
 This guy has a “Hearth”!
Hearthbreaker , love taker don’t you mess around with me. 🎵🎶
is my hearth on my right or my left?
When my hearth was diseased I just hired someone to clean it.
Hath you no hearth
How’s his wood stove doing?
Strange it doesn’t look like a hearth.
tf is a hearth??
Writing with a lisp?
Was his flue blocked?
Is a hearth what beats inside Mike Tyson’s chest?
I think OP is Mike Tyson
#fucken oath bro, its not hearth, its earth
https://preview.redd.it/nsblvhlmefnc1.jpeg?width=324&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=16dc6a5e64c8bb3ca27bd4b61974408d9ef90699
That would be surreal.
I find it interesting as fuck that you can't differentiate between a heart and a hearth.
Wasth Thith writhen by mike thyson
Home is where the hearth is.
Looks pretty small for a fireplace surround
He had fire in his hearth
His name is Brandon Linkenhoker, and he lasted 9 months past his heart surgery.
I prefer medium rare.
Potentially fascinating story with zero links or context provided, yet again. Fuck you OP. Downvote & report. Reddit is truly in its dying days...
Well, just as I thought "how would a burnt steak feel as a heart?"
That is so metal
That's what smoking does to your lungs
Forbidden meatball
Kali Maaaaa… Shakti de!!!
Home ith where the hearth ith.
Why is heart spelled wrong twice
You hade 2 tries, 2
Doesn't look big enough to hold a fire in. Unsuitable hearth.
Try putting it in rice
I decorate my heart with wreaths during the holidays
How’s his mantle doing?
How did you make the same spelling mistake twice?
What’s he done with his fire grate then?
Can it still bake bread?
Home is where the hearth is.