Showing posts with label Miracle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Miracle. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 02, 2011

Mmm. Must be part cat.

Euthanized Oklahoma puppy, Wall-E, rises from 'dead,' now looking to be adopted by loving family

The black-and-white pooch was one of five young dogs "put to sleep" Saturday at a shelter in Sulphur, Okla., News 9 in Oklahoma City reported. Each dog was checked and confirmed to be dead, then the 3-month-old and his four siblings were placed in a trash bin.

On Sunday morning, an animal control officer looked into the bin and discovered that the one pup somehow survived.

"He was just as healthy as could be," Scott Prall told News 9.


From the rest of the story, it seems Wall-E will have a chance to be adopted--as soon as he is cleared of the hookworm infestation that put him and his siblings on death row. There are a few hundred folks who have expressed an interest.

Friday, January 25, 2008

A "one-in-six-billion miracle."

When she was a little girl of nine, Demi-Lee Brennan got sick and had to go to hospital. She received a donor liver when her own liver failed.

And then strange things happened inside her. Not alien strange, no, anybody can get weird parasitic creatures to grow inside them. No Demi-Lee had something even more unusual happen. Now, at 15, she’s a whole new person…sorta.

Australian girl changes blood group, immune system
Brennan's body changed blood group from O negative to O positive when she became ill while on drugs to avoid rejection of the organ by her body's immune system.

Her new liver's blood stem cells then invaded her body's bone marrow to take over her entire immune system, meaning the teen no longer needs anti-rejection drugs.

This is an absolutely amazing story. When you consider the care that is taken to match organs to donors. The change from blood type O-negative to O-positive…well that’s pretty amazing, but to change her entire immune system?! Wow! Just, Wow!

Given that only 7 of 10 liver transplants are successful over a five year period because of rejection complications, this young lady will be in a category all her own.

May she enjoy a long, happy and healthy life. But first she’ll have to get the doctors to leave her alone.