Posted on 02/18/2018 7:19:44 PM PST by Armen Hareyan
Edited on 02/18/2018 7:34:12 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Jennifer Jones looks incredulously around her. She does understand what is going on; she seems to be in a trance. Lying on a bed at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, surrounded by machines that keep her balanced and with wires going in and out of her body, she will experience something new. And she is nervous. For the first time, she can breathe on her own after a lung transplant surgery.
The surgery was performed last October, but the video of her reaction to her first breath went viral and showed how the doctor who was in charge of the transplant spoke calmly to his patient, indicating that she can take her first breath.
At age 30, after the birth of her son, Jones had been diagnosed with cystic fibrosis. In October 2016, she was hospitalized. Her condition began to deteriorate slowly. There was only one hope: a lung transplant. But it would not be simple. It was so that the young mother was placed on a waiting list. Her lungs were functioning at only 10 percent of their capacity.
The operation was a success. And her fiancé, Ronnenberg, decided to record the moment his beloved wife breathing again of her own free will.
The video was posted on YouTube at the beginning of the month, but this weekend a user decided to share it on Reddit, where it went viral in a few hours and Jones' story came to light. "We want to be the voice so that the number of donors in the world increases so that we can save lives,” Ronnenberg told 9Pickle.
In the video, when she took her first breath, she was utterly amazed. This shows how important innovations in the medical field are. Please feel free to watch the video for yourselves.
I was always told throughout my younger years that nerves could not be ‘fixed’. These type of transplants prove to me that this isn’t so. How could one breath without a nerve to tell them so? Same with a heart transplant. Nerves can be reconnected. I have no doubt.
I credit scientific research and hard work by medical professionals. It doesn’t seem that long ago when heart transplants couldn’t be done. Even the technology behind my stents is relatively recent. I’d prolly be dead without ‘em.
We take so much for granted......breathing!
I credit all the wisdom to God.
Indeed!!
What a joyful moment!
I can’t imagine the relief she felt.
My sister had a heart transplant at age 45. The average survival rate of a heart transplant patient is 9.6 years. My sister lived for 17 years and one month. The last couple of years were very bad, she fought very bravely to stay alive.
A friend at church was also diagnosed with cystic fibrosis as an adult and had a lung transplant. He is thankful for every breath.
Don’t know about the heart, but your lungs work by your diaphragm contracting and pulling air into your lungs.
From what I quickly read, it looks like hearts and kidneys are not generally reattached to nerves which cause some problems like higher resting pulse and change in response to exercise. But then I'm not a doctor and didn't even stay at a Holiday Inn Express.
When I’m done with them. I’m still using my lungs.
yeah but there are nerves involved ... maybe as Karlinohio said there is degraded response or something... but tell me how a heart transplant works without nerve impulses? I might understand lung or kidney at reduced capability but hearts don’t make sense without nerves
I recently read some interesting information about chest wounds.
As pointed out, the diaphragm muscles are responsible for breathing and are not part of the lungs.
The movement of the diaphragm enlarges the volume of the chest cavity. This creates a negative pressure outside the lungs which causes air to be drawn into the lungs.
When the diaphragm relaxes, this causes a positive pressure which pushes air out of the lungs.
This mechanism is subject to problems if a person should suffer a chest wound which penetrates to the chest cavity outside the lungs. When the diaphragm attempts to pull air into the lungs, it will also pull air through the chest wound, partially filling the chest cavity outside the lungs.
Because some of the air drawn in is inside the chest cavity but outside the lungs, the amount of air drawn into the lungs is decreased.
When the diaphragm then relaxes, air is pushed out of the lungs and MAY also be pushed out of the chest wound. If this was all that happened, that would be bad enough and the wounded person would be getting less air when they breathe.
Unfortunately, when the diaphragm relaxes, some of the air which was inside the chest cavity but outside the lungs will remain. When the person nexts inhales, they will once again draw air into the lungs and some more air into the chest cavity but outside the lungs.
The long term result can be that eventually the chest cavity is full of air and the lungs may collapse. Even if the wound seems to involve just one lung, this mechanism can collapse both lungs and the person my die of suffocation.
The first aid for such a chest wound is to seal the wound tightly so that air is not allowed to flow into the person's chest. If there is a sucking sound associated with the wound, that doesn't necessarily mean that the person is getting more air. It may simply mean that air is being drawn in which will render the lungs inoperable.
Don’t know about the heart, but your lungs work by your diaphragm contracting and pulling air into your lungs.
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Good answer. I believe when the nerves to the diaphragm get damaged, a special pacemaker can be installed.
The heart just wants to beat. From Cleveland Clinic: Heart Beat:
1. SA node (sinoatrial node) – known as the heart’s natural pacemaker The impulse starts in a small bundle of specialized cells located in the right atrium, called the SA node. The electrical activity spreads through the walls of the atria and causes them to contract. This forces blood into the ventricles. The SA node sets the rate and rhythm of your heartbeat. Normal heart rhythm is often called normal sinus rhythm because the SA (sinus) node fires regularly.Search for "denerverated heart" and see far more than I can understand.2. AV node (atrioventricular node) The AV node is a cluster of cells in the center of the heart between the atria and ventricles, and acts like a gate that slows the electrical signal before it enters the ventricles. This delay gives the atria time to contract before the ventricles do.
3. His-Purkinje Network This pathway of fibers sends the impulse to the muscular walls of the ventricles and causes them to contract. This forces blood out of the heart to the lungs and body.
4. The SA node fires another impulse and the cycle begins again.
It looks like not having nerves attached just allows the heart to free run without any feedback from the brain.
Amazing...
Praise God...
Never heard of that before.................
I'm still wondering about this just now coming out...that she has CF...and she is 30 yrs of age.
I'm no expert...but it sounds odd...to my experience.
“And her fiancé, Ronnenberg, decided to record the moment his beloved wife breathing again of her own free will.”
Slide of language alert. Culture shift alert.
A “fiancé” is a person who is engaged to be married. Only upon marriage is such a person a “wife”. The culture has shifted the meaning of this word to: person who is living with another as if they were married but are not legally nor in the eyes of God.
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