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...Finley tells the story of a man who is about to rape a woman on the subway, but is enraged to find out that she is menstruating. Kidney beans represent the menstruation. In “Mr. Hirsch,” she used melted ice cream to symbolize the mess involved when a little girl is forced to perform oral sex on her neighbor. And in “Yams Up My Granny’s Ass,” a piece that many outraged critics fixated upon, she rubbed canned yams all over her backside in order to illustrate...
...Patriots weren’t given much of a chance at the start of this past football season. My father also wasn’t given much of a chance just over ten years ago, when his kidneys failed and his heart stopped on a business trip in 1991. My dad suffered from a rare illness known as Wagner’s disease, a condition that drastically suppresses one’s autoimmune system. Wagner’s ate away at my father’s kidneys until they finally gave out in a Chicago hotel room. Miraculously, doctors were...
Indeed, a recent survey showed that most people will accept a mortality rate for living organ donors as high as 20%. The odds, thankfully, aren't nearly that bad. For kidney donors, for example, the risk ranges from 1 in 2,500 to 1 in 4,000 for a healthy volunteer. That helps explain why nearly 40% of kidney transplants in the U.S. come from living donors...
...operation to transplant a liver, however, is a lot trickier than one to transplant a kidney. Not only is the liver packed with blood vessels, but it also makes lots of proteins that need to be produced in the right ratios for the body to survive. When organs from the recently deceased are used, the surgeon gets to pick which part of the donated liver looks the best--and to take as much of it as needed. Assuming all goes well, a healthy liver can grow back whatever portion of the organ is missing, sometimes within a month...
...children of normal weight. Even more alarming is the number of children with Type 2, or non-insulin-dependent, diabetes. Once known as adult-onset diabetes--before so many children started getting it--Type 2 diabetes puts kids at risk for very adult ailments, including blindness, nerve damage, kidney failure and cardiovascular disease...