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I was on dialysis for 18 months before the transplant, so it was important I tried to look ahead to days like my comeback this Saturday. You need those big goals to drive you on.

Goals You Drive Look

It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it to be devoured by worms.

Christiaan Barnard

Heart Better Than Worms

I had a liver transplant, then I had a pacemaker put in, then I had a new knee put it, then I had a heart valve put in. I'm almost brand new. I have a lot of new parts.

Heart New Brand Then

More than 100 people are involved in a transplant operation... and we can't waste time and resources if there is a chance the caretakers aren't up for an awesome responsibility.

Time People Responsibility Chance

I think we can allow the therapeutic uses of nuclear transplant technology, which we call cloning, without running the danger of actually having live human beings born.

David Baltimore

Technology Born Live Think

When I got really sick and needed a stem cell transplant, I was fortunate to have a twin sister as the donor.

Sister Sick Stem Fortunate

I wanted to live in the suburbs and have a white picket fence and my own bedroom. And a staircase - I thought having a staircase meant that you were a normal family. I thought somehow if you could transplant us to the suburbs, we would become a normal family. But in retrospect, I'm so grateful I grew up in the Chelsea.

Family You Grateful White

The idea of a spiritual heart transplant is a vivid image to me; once you have the heart of somebody else inside you, then that heart is there. Jesus' heart is inside me, and my heart is gone. So if God were to place a stethoscope against my chest, he would hear the heart of Jesus Christ beating.

God Me Heart You

I had to have a complete liver transplant. I waited with a beeper for a year and 10 months to get that gift.

Shelley Fabares

Gift Year Complete Get

I recently have had a full hip replacement and a liver transplant, and I'm getting used to the medication.

Used Full Liver Getting

This is a year and a few months after the transplant. Before I had it my doctors told me that it would be the biggest thing that I ever had to face and believe me, when they take your liver out of ya and put another one in it's like replacing a football in your stomach.

Football Me Face Believe

I haven't had my teeth fixed, I haven't had a hair transplant. I haven't had a skin peel, tummy tuck. I've done literally nothing.

Hair Skin Nothing Done

There's nobody else on the face of this earth that's playing a sport at a highest level... with a transplant. That alone continues to inspire me, because I realize throughout the whole world the struggles that people are going through. I need to inspire them the best way I can.

Alonzo Mourning

Best Alone Me People

Just to confirm to all my followers I have had a hair transplant. I was going bald at 25 why not.

Hair Bald Why Why Not

It was like a heart transplant. We tried to implant college in him but his head rejected it.

Heart College Head Like

After one hundred days of confinement following a bone marrow transplant, I rejoiced in taking short walks to a nearby park as I was writing 'Girl in Hyacinth Blue.' The uncertainty of my survival made every blade of grass gorgeous in its green intensity, lifting itself up, doing its part to make the world beautiful.

Beautiful Green Blue Girl

When most people think of economists, they think of macro-economists. Macro-economists try to describe or - even harder - predict the movements of a hugely dynamic system. They're like a transplant surgeon trying to simultaneously transplant every failing organ in someone's body.

Stephen J. Dubner

People Body Think Someone

Carole Lartigue led the effort to actually transplant a bacterial chromosome from one bacteria to another.

Effort Bacteria Another Actually

The brain isn't like the heart. They learned how to transplant a heart. The brain is more complex.

Heart Brain More How

I'd like people to know that you can head off kidney disease, maybe prevent a transplant or stop the disease from progressing after detection by doing a simple urine test in the doctor's office.

Simple You People Doctor

I was in kidney failure. I ended up having a kidney transplant on my 21st birthday.

Birthday Failure Up Kidney

Back in the late '90s, I put together a humorous newsmagazine program called 'The Awful Truth' for Bravo. We helped one guy get an organ transplant whose insurance company had refused to pay. I thought, if we could save a guy's life in a 10-minute segment on cable, what could we do if we devoted a whole movie to a whole bunch of people?

Life Truth Together People

I have scary eyes. I look like the guy in 'American History X,' yes. I remember coming home from school and asking my mum if I could get an eye transplant, and of course she declined.

Eyes History Home School

I am overjoyed that I do not need a heart transplant at this time.

Heart Time I Am Need

It was in 2003 that I realised there was no choice but to have dialysis treatment - by the time of the World Cup that year, I could barely walk. A year later, I finally had a kidney transplant.

Time Walk World Choice

I had to have a complete liver transplant.

Shelley Fabares

Complete Liver Had

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