My brother and I have been called in to see the neph.....

[galvo]

Did they suck out the eyeballs? Yum!

[ChickenLittle56]

For a million dollars and I was a vegan I'd say 'bring on the sheep's head'. I wonder what her friends would say at back home when she got back with a million dollars.

[paris]

I watched that episode also, and couldn't believe she ate that head!!  Beth's friend from Tunisia loves lamb and eats the sheeps eyes!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                Now, THAT would make me a vegetarian!   

[Riki]

I don't think I would have been able to eat the sheep's head, and I'm NOT a vegetarian.  I can see my nutritionist being incredibly pissed at me if I told her I'd decided to become a vegetarian. *L*  I may do that for April Fool's.. call her and ask her what to do for protein because I no longer eat meat....

[cariad]

Just on the vegetarians eating meat after a long time - I just watched the latest episode of The Amazing Race wherein to fast track to the pit stop(ie: avoid all the challenges in that leg of the race) this team of doctors(ironically) had to eat a cooked sheeps head(or something like that) in Norway. One of them had been vegetarian for over 20 years.. I can't believe she sucked it up and ate the meat - all for that shot of a share of $1 mil.

See my brother would NOT do that. I would have said nope, I'll forgo this.

No kidding on the forgoing part! Nothing to do with being a vegetarian, although that certainly would play into more mundane requests like "Can I interest you in a chicken wing?"

I am astounded that this was a doctor. Eating sheeps head, especially the eyes or brain or any other portion that comes into contact with the nervous system is an excellent way to find yourself with a deadly prion disease. Cooking does not eliminate the risk in the least. There is a group of people in the middle east who traditionally eat this part of the animal, and they are a classic cluster group. Crazy. I would not ever go to a doctor who treats her own health so cavalierly for a bit of cash. These shows expose such a seedy aspect of people. Is there anything that these people will not put up for sale? Can I get a look at this team (without watching one moment of the broadcast!) so that I will never accidentally entrust my health to any of them?

[Riki]

They're surgeons.. they think they're invincible.. *LOL*

[rsudock]

Richard hope it works out for you!!
This post made me laugh because my brother (who is also on dialysis) went to a psychic last week and she said he was also going to live until his 90s!  We just wondered what quality of life that was going to entail!

[Riki]

by the time we're in our 90s, there will be some kind of artificial kidney that does the same job as the real kidney, that can be mass manufactured, and implanted like a pacemaker.

At least, that's what I'm hoping for.

I mean, if they can make a device that keeps Dick Cheny's heart pumping blood, why not?

[RichardMEL]

Richard hope it works out for you!!
This post made me laugh because my brother (who is also on dialysis) went to a psychic last week and she said he was also going to live until his 90s!  We just wondered what quality of life that was going to entail!

I think these psychics are in cahoots if they're claiming the same stuff!!!! 

Yes, well my family is still waiting for anything this psychic I saw to come to pass. My brother also saw her and she suggested some other specific things for him in the next few months, so we're eagerly awaiting confirmation of her brilliance, or uselessness!! 

I also agree with Riki - I think 50 years from now (when/if I hit 90) I feel there will HAVE to be such advances in technology that we will have something more practical. Hopefully I'll still be chasing the girls then too ! 

[Marina]

50 years from now (when/if I hit 90) . Hopefully I'll still be chasing the girls then too ! 

Oh  Richard,  without  a  doubt.  Even  if  a cane  slows you down 

[Riki]

Well, we have to live with this disease our entire lives.  There's no way out of it.  The best thing we can hope for is that there will be advances in technology that will help us out