What Happens to Lungs After tx

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Proxy

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The other night I was laying in bed wondering what happens to your old lungs when you get new ones, do they incinerate them or use them for research or something, do you have the option of keeping them (inno that sounds creepy but there a part of me and was jw)
Thankyou for your replies <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0"> and sorry if it seems an odd question
 
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Proxy

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The other night I was laying in bed wondering what happens to your old lungs when you get new ones, do they incinerate them or use them for research or something, do you have the option of keeping them (inno that sounds creepy but there a part of me and was jw)
Thankyou for your replies <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0"> and sorry if it seems an odd question
 
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Proxy

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The other night I was laying in bed wondering what happens to your old lungs when you get new ones, do they incinerate them or use them for research or something, do you have the option of keeping them (inno that sounds creepy but there a part of me and was jw)
<br />Thankyou for your replies <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0"> and sorry if it seems an odd question
 
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fr3ak

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Unfortunately they don't let you keep them, I tried lol

What they do do, is send them away for research (or at least this is what I think they do with them) it makes sense for them to be sent away for research as this would help them understand the extreme changes our lungs undergo when they are so diseased, not just from a CF point of view but in general lung deterioration due to constant infections.

I am pretty sure almost 90% of CF's try to keep their old lungs, I didnt get to keep them but I did get photo's which was the next best thing <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif" border="0">

Good luck with your transplant
 
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fr3ak

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Unfortunately they don't let you keep them, I tried lol

What they do do, is send them away for research (or at least this is what I think they do with them) it makes sense for them to be sent away for research as this would help them understand the extreme changes our lungs undergo when they are so diseased, not just from a CF point of view but in general lung deterioration due to constant infections.

I am pretty sure almost 90% of CF's try to keep their old lungs, I didnt get to keep them but I did get photo's which was the next best thing <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif" border="0">

Good luck with your transplant
 
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fr3ak

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Unfortunately they don't let you keep them, I tried lol
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<br />What they do do, is send them away for research (or at least this is what I think they do with them) it makes sense for them to be sent away for research as this would help them understand the extreme changes our lungs undergo when they are so diseased, not just from a CF point of view but in general lung deterioration due to constant infections.
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<br />I am pretty sure almost 90% of CF's try to keep their old lungs, I didnt get to keep them but I did get photo's which was the next best thing <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif" border="0">
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<br />Good luck with your transplant
 
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pbpc95

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I think I even signed paperwork giving the hospital permission to use my lungs for research. I wish I had asked to see my old lungs or have someone take pics for me. Doesn't matter now about pics, I'm just thankful I can breathe!
 
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pbpc95

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I think I even signed paperwork giving the hospital permission to use my lungs for research. I wish I had asked to see my old lungs or have someone take pics for me. Doesn't matter now about pics, I'm just thankful I can breathe!
 
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pbpc95

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I think I even signed paperwork giving the hospital permission to use my lungs for research. I wish I had asked to see my old lungs or have someone take pics for me. Doesn't matter now about pics, I'm just thankful I can breathe!
 
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Marjolein

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They used mine for research. Actually someone I know worked in the lab, one of my sisters best friends. She did research into something and used different bits of lung for that. I guess it said the age of the lung and the date that they went out of the body or something. She linked it and told us she had seen and worked with a piece of my lungs. That was so very cool! This was in the hospital where I had my tx. It was only a tiny part of my lungs.

No idea if they used my lungs for other research. But I do know they checked them after my tx. They checked them in pathology. Just to see in how bad of a shape I was. Guess they questioned how I would have been alive ;-)
Like the surgeon later asked how I could actually breathe as there was little movement in my lungs when they tried to get them out.
 
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Marjolein

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They used mine for research. Actually someone I know worked in the lab, one of my sisters best friends. She did research into something and used different bits of lung for that. I guess it said the age of the lung and the date that they went out of the body or something. She linked it and told us she had seen and worked with a piece of my lungs. That was so very cool! This was in the hospital where I had my tx. It was only a tiny part of my lungs.

No idea if they used my lungs for other research. But I do know they checked them after my tx. They checked them in pathology. Just to see in how bad of a shape I was. Guess they questioned how I would have been alive ;-)
Like the surgeon later asked how I could actually breathe as there was little movement in my lungs when they tried to get them out.
 
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Marjolein

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They used mine for research. Actually someone I know worked in the lab, one of my sisters best friends. She did research into something and used different bits of lung for that. I guess it said the age of the lung and the date that they went out of the body or something. She linked it and told us she had seen and worked with a piece of my lungs. That was so very cool! This was in the hospital where I had my tx. It was only a tiny part of my lungs.
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<br />No idea if they used my lungs for other research. But I do know they checked them after my tx. They checked them in pathology. Just to see in how bad of a shape I was. Guess they questioned how I would have been alive ;-)
<br />Like the surgeon later asked how I could actually breathe as there was little movement in my lungs when they tried to get them out.
 
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Lex

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Mine were saved for later research. I was told that there weren't any projects going on right now, but mine would be used when the time came.

PS. I don't miss them for a second. Though, I do wish I had a picture. Kinda like a parent who treated me very badly growing up....I wouldn't miss them, either, but I think I'd like to have a picture. I'm sure there were good times somewhere in all that havoc. RIP stupid CF lungs.
 
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Lex

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Mine were saved for later research. I was told that there weren't any projects going on right now, but mine would be used when the time came.

PS. I don't miss them for a second. Though, I do wish I had a picture. Kinda like a parent who treated me very badly growing up....I wouldn't miss them, either, but I think I'd like to have a picture. I'm sure there were good times somewhere in all that havoc. RIP stupid CF lungs.
 
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Lex

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Mine were saved for later research. I was told that there weren't any projects going on right now, but mine would be used when the time came.
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<br />PS. I don't miss them for a second. Though, I do wish I had a picture. Kinda like a parent who treated me very badly growing up....I wouldn't miss them, either, but I think I'd like to have a picture. I'm sure there were good times somewhere in all that havoc. RIP stupid CF lungs.
 
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CountryGirl

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Mine were used for research and I also got to go and play/see/feel them after they were done researching them. They were all cut up and I got to hold them and stuff, it was AWESOME! I even got to see slides of the damage up close. Now they are actually letting you keep a slice of your lung, so I'm super excited seeing as I need a second tx, though they won't be my lungs, they'll be my donor's...
 
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CountryGirl

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Mine were used for research and I also got to go and play/see/feel them after they were done researching them. They were all cut up and I got to hold them and stuff, it was AWESOME! I even got to see slides of the damage up close. Now they are actually letting you keep a slice of your lung, so I'm super excited seeing as I need a second tx, though they won't be my lungs, they'll be my donor's...
 
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CountryGirl

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Mine were used for research and I also got to go and play/see/feel them after they were done researching them. They were all cut up and I got to hold them and stuff, it was AWESOME! I even got to see slides of the damage up close. Now they are actually letting you keep a slice of your lung, so I'm super excited seeing as I need a second tx, though they won't be my lungs, they'll be my donor's...
 
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NYCLawGirl

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they used mine for research. i asked my CF doc in advance to take pictures for me. when she went to examine them after they were removed. she did, and brought them to me, so i have a bunch of color photos that she blew up to big size. weird. but even stranger was the fact that my left lung was missing - two days post. apparently it was so bad some prof had already taken it to class or whatever. my surgeon and my tx doc saw it, my CF doc did not. and they never got to dissect it in the lab. oh well, it was a bugger of a lung anyway <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif" border="0">
 
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NYCLawGirl

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they used mine for research. i asked my CF doc in advance to take pictures for me. when she went to examine them after they were removed. she did, and brought them to me, so i have a bunch of color photos that she blew up to big size. weird. but even stranger was the fact that my left lung was missing - two days post. apparently it was so bad some prof had already taken it to class or whatever. my surgeon and my tx doc saw it, my CF doc did not. and they never got to dissect it in the lab. oh well, it was a bugger of a lung anyway <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif" border="0">
 
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