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AIDS Activist Undergoes Liver Transplant Surgery
Houston Chronicle ^ | December 24, 2001

Posted on 12/25/2001 4:04:30 PM PST by 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.


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To: BoPepper
"...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?

121 posted on 12/29/2001 2:34:47 PM PST by DWSUWF
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To: BoPepper
How many lives would be lost if everyone refused to donate organs for partisan reasons?

Ask me again in 100 years.

122 posted on 12/29/2001 2:41:32 PM PST by Old Professer
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To: Mulder
"...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 !

124 posted on 12/29/2001 2:45:39 PM PST by DWSUWF
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To: BoPepper
You apparently do not get out much.

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

125 posted on 12/29/2001 2:45:53 PM PST by Mulder
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To: BoPepper
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?

127 posted on 12/29/2001 2:51:59 PM PST by Mulder
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To: DWSUWF
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.

128 posted on 12/29/2001 2:55:13 PM PST by Mulder
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To: Mulder
"...Or is it something else?...

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

129 posted on 12/29/2001 2:56:06 PM PST by DWSUWF
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To: BoPepper
Do you oppose organ donations?

Only mine.

130 posted on 12/29/2001 2:57:24 PM PST by Old Professer
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To: DWSUWF
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.
132 posted on 12/29/2001 2:58:16 PM PST by oregon conservative
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To: DWSUWF
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! :)
133 posted on 12/29/2001 3:10:03 PM PST by GussiedUp
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To: DWSUWF
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?"
134 posted on 12/29/2001 3:16:25 PM PST by GussiedUp
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To: Mulder
"...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...

135 posted on 12/29/2001 3:16:25 PM PST by DWSUWF
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To: oregon conservative
"...I have enjoyed this thread. I agree with you on this issue..."

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

136 posted on 12/29/2001 3:26:52 PM PST by DWSUWF
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To: DWSUWF
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.

137 posted on 12/29/2001 3:32:47 PM PST by Mulder
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To: GussiedUp
"...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!

138 posted on 12/29/2001 3:32:53 PM PST by DWSUWF
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To: Mulder
"...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...

139 posted on 12/29/2001 3:37:26 PM PST by DWSUWF
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To: Mulder
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!!!
140 posted on 12/29/2001 3:37:42 PM PST by GussiedUp
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