Re: Blood substitutes

Some of you may know that I lost my best friend earlier this month to what I believe could have been titanium poisoning from 2 sets of artificial hip replacements.

One of the amanzing things about her surgeries, she was raised Jehovah's Witness and absolutely would NOT have a blood transufusion.

The night before her first surgery, I got to view this surgery being performed on a PBS channel and oh my GOD, this is one bloody surgery!!!!  She had to look high and low for a surgeon that would do the surgery and guaranty to not give her blood even if she was dying.  Even tho she had this bloody surgery, even tho she was anemic for as long as I've known her, even tho they did 2 surgeries in 7 months when they usually wait 1-2 yrs, she did absolutely fine, healed very quickly and got along better than most other people who have this extremely invasive surgery.

The 2nd set came about because the FDA allowed joints that they knew had a manufacturing fault to be installed in people, paying the law suits being cheaper than taking them all up and fixing the default.  Those joints literally fell apart in about  5 or 6 yrs and crashed thru her pelvic bone doing further damange ... she had to be put back together with pins, needles, mesh and bone grafts that they took from other places on her body.