AIDS Activist Undergoes Liver Transplant Surgery

Houston Chronicle ^ | December 24, 2001

[bayourod]

PITTSBURGH -- AIDS activist, author and playwright Larry Kramer underwent liver transplant surgery and was listed in serious condition Monday.

Kramer's doctors said his condition was improving and was about where it should be after the 12-hour surgery Friday.

Kramer, 66, spent seven months on the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's waiting list. He moved to Pittsburgh in early November to wait for an organ to become available. While many transplant centers oppose the surgery for HIV-positive patients, UPMC's Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute has performed 10 liver transplants on HIV-positive patients since 1997. Eight of the patients have survived. Kramer's HIV has been relatively well controlled, but he suffered from end-stage liver failure caused by hepatitis B.

[DWSUWF]

"...Let me know when you are ready for a grown up conversation. I am not going to waste my time on an immature and illogical person like you. Unable to focus on the issue, you must resort to childish insults..."

OK Peep, but don't hold your breath.

One of the really neat things about being me is that I don't have to give a sh!t about what you think about this crazy old half-breed...

Are you going to want to get the last word now?

[Old Professer]

How many lives would be lost if everyone refused to donate organs for partisan reasons?

Ask me again in 100 years.

[DWSUWF]

"...You apparently do not get out much..."

Admit it Mulder...

It kinda made you jump when he came popping back up like that...

Like a slasher movie...

BOO !

[Mulder]

You apparently do not get out much.

Yeah, because 'organ trolls' like you would love to harvest my liver, without my consent.

[Mulder]

Repeat after me: voluntary organ donations

I refuse to "volunteer" then.

But isn't that (a refusal to volunteer organs) why you've been chasing DWSUWF on this thread? Or is it something else?

[Mulder]

With this flu I was going to be tossing and turning as it is tonight. Now I'm going to be dreaming about being stalked by my own private internet lover-boy with an interest in organ harvesting.

Damn. And I thought I was having a bad day.

Do you think his religion is Islam? That sounds exactly like something one of them would do.

[DWSUWF]

"...Or is it something else?...

If you goad the Peepster into declaring his love for me I'm going to be pissed.

[Old Professer]

Do you oppose organ donations?

Only mine.

[oregon conservative]

I have enjoyed this thread. I agree with you on this issue and may I learn to be as uncompromising as you are when defending freedom and liberty with all the libs I encounter. thanks.

[GussiedUp]

With this flu I was going to be tossing and turning as it is tonight. Now I'm going to be dreaming about being stalked by my own private internet lover-boy with an interest in organ harvesting.
Oh yes...
I'm lookiing forward to that.

ROFLMAO oh you poor soul - first the flu now a liver-harvesting tutu-draped sausage man-boy has a crush on you!
Ya'll are making my whole evening!!! I haven't had a laugh this good in a LONG time! :)

[GussiedUp]

I imagine 'HAL' the computer's voice in '2001' when I read Peep's stuff here.

PEEP: "All my systems are fuctioning normally, well except for my liver and this damn tutu is too tight. Do you think I'm terribly ashen?"

[DWSUWF]

"...Do you think his religion is Islam? That sounds exactly like something one of them would do..."

No.

I think that he's a worshipper of Baal.

And I'd be willing to bet that the zoning people in his burg are after him hammer and tong to get rid of that enormous, penis-shaped rock standing in his front yard.

Either that, or at least move the damn thing around to the back yard where the neighborhood kids won't have to look at it...

[DWSUWF]

"...I have enjoyed this thread. I agree with you on this issue..."

I take your remarks as a high compliment. Thank you.

[Mulder]

And I'd be willing to bet that the zoning people in his burg are after him hammer and tong to get rid of that enormous, penis-shaped rock standing in his front yard.

LOL! The neighbors might have been willing to let it slide (so to speak) if he didn't spend so much time sitting on the damn thing.

[DWSUWF]

"...first the flu now a liver-harvesting tutu-draped sausage man-boy has a crush on you!..."

Steven King, if you're reading this, and I see this crap in one of your books later on, you better send me a creative consultant's fee, dammit!

[DWSUWF]

"...LOL! The neighbors might have been willing to let it slide (so to speak) if he didn't spend so much time sitting on the damn thing..."

Every man, however odd he might be, should have a dream...

[GussiedUp]

LOL! The neighbors might have been willing to let it slide (so to speak) if he didn't spend so much time sitting on the damn thing.

ROFLMAO!!!! I am seeing the pose in my mind - elbow on knee....chin on hand....nekkid....thinking....
OMG I AM IN TEARS OVER HERE!!!