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You may think you will never need an organ transplant. However, one cannot be too sure. Cancer patients sometimes get transplants, and people with heart failures or kidney failures may also have transplants. Severe injury could also lead to an organ transplant. A transplant is a very serious thing, and can affect your way of life. Let’s go over some of the obstacles a prospecting transplant patient may face and why they would need the transplant in the first place. First of all, when one first confronts the need for a transplant, it’s usually a life or death situation. The decision to have a transplant may just extend life a short while or may keep a person alive for a few years. Whatever the case, and what ever may have caused it, a donor is needed. Donors can be especially hard to find depending on blood type, size, and how healthy the person was who had it last. Waiting for an organ can take a very long time. However, if the opportunity is right, and an organ is found, the next step is getting through surgery. Surgery is a painful experience, the surgeons break the bones and wrench them open, holding them back with clamps, cutting and sawing, poking and prodding all the insides. Then when it’s all finished, the patient is still swaddled in the bed, helpless until recovery. Even after recovery, the patient may have to return for many checkups, take many shots, and prescribed pills to counter-act rejection. Rejection is when the body doesn’t accept the organ and tries to “kill” it, like it would a bacterium.
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