Hannah Clark (16) just underwent a surgery to end a 16 year bout with various ailments, and not minor ones at that.

At 8 months old (1994) Hannah Clark was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy which is a condition were the heart doesn’t function properly.  A donor heart was used, but instead of exchanging the two, surgeons left her original heart in her chest to rest, a term known as Piggybacking.

As with any transplant, the body refusing an organ is always an issue so Hannah was put on potent drugs to assist in the adjustment.  These drugs however cause another little problem: CANCER. Ouch

So as her cancer battle is going on, she makes it 11 years and finds that her immuno-suppression drugs were no longer working. Hannah’s body was rejecting the donor heart.

February 2006 rolls around and a tough decision in made.  Surgeons decide to remove her donor heart and ideally her own heart should be in good enough shape to work.  This has never been done.  The family really had no choice though and the surgery was done (by the surgeon who did the original transplant who came out of retirement just for this young woman).

Three years later, Hannah has no need for any drugs and has been given a clean bill of health. The operation was a success!!!!!

A rather interesting story.

Makes me wish I could have a backup liver!

Congrats to Hannah and her family

Recent studies show that up to 90 % of all United States paper currency contains at least a small amount of cocaine.

Scientists tested banknotes from more than 30 cities in five countries, including the United States, Canada, Brazil, China, and Japan, and found alarming evidence of cocaine usage.

The U.S. and Canada are in 1st place with an astonishing 85%-90% contanimation rate, while the Chinese and Japanese flopped in at a measly 12%-20%. Thats weak!

These findings were released on August 16,2009 at the 238th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in Washington, D.C.

The overall percentage has risen approximatly 20% in the last 2 years.

Scientists have known for years that paper money can become contaminated with cocaine during drug deals and directly through drug use, such as snorting cocaine through rolled bills. Contamination can also spread to banknotes not involved in the illicit drug culture, because bills are processed in banks’ currency-counting machines.

The amounts of cocaine found on U.S. bills ranged from .006 micrograms (several thousands of times smaller than a single grain of sand) to more than 1,240 micrograms of cocaine per banknote (about 50 grains of sand).

The scientists found that larger cities like Baltimore, Boston, and Detroit had among the highest average cocaine levels. Washington, D.C., ranked above the average, with 95 percent of the banknotes sampled contaminated with the drug. The lowest average cocaine levels in U.S. currency appeared on bills collected from Salt Lake City.

Now people, there’s no need to worry, the amount on these bills are generally so minuscule that there is absolutely no health risk involved, unless of course you just wedged a couple grams up you beak using said bills.

Also, anyone find it odd that the highest contamination location (possibly in the world), is D.C., home of the leaders of the free world.  Interesting.

At least now people can just chew on a couple of ones to get high instead of payin all that cash for an 8 ball.

I personally would be more concerned withhandling dollar bills you got in a strip club to tell you the truth.  Those must be caked in stds and baby batter.