GX

Below is a link to an article about a female heart and lung transplant patient who started behaving like the 18 year old male donor. Any comments or explanations from the scientific oriented forum members?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...page_id=17 74

Its too long to post but here is the headline:

My summary: Though she maintained heterosexual feelings, she changed her perspective about relationships and no longer felt "needy" about them. She also attracted lesbians....

By CLAIRE SYLVIA - More by this author »
• Extracted from A Change Of Heart - A Memoir, by Claire Sylvia with William Novak. © Claire Sylvia and William Novak 1997 [/quote]

WilliamBlue

That is very interesting, but I am having a hard time swallowing it. The first story about the two people who committed suicide, did anyone think that maybe the wife did it? I am not saying that she necessarily killed them herself, just that maybe she made them feel like committing suicide. Sorry for the humor, I couldn't resist.

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xxkayxx

I remember reading about a case not too long ago where a guy got a new hand, but felt it had a "mind of its own" and eventually had it removed. It might just be all in her head... It's kind of how like on friday the thirteenth people will look for something to go wrong, just as after her little beer craving she might have just overanalyzed everything that happened that might point to the heart having some kind of control over her actions and personality.

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debdodd

all I have to say is BBBBBBBBBBBBUUUUUUUUUUUUULLLLLLLLLL SSSSSSSSHHHHH******TTTTTT!!!!!

It's all in their heads!

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romansh

Well GX at least it's not from the News of the World!

What I would like to see is the articles in the newspapers about all the people who had transplants and transfusions, and did not experience anything of the donor.

I also wonder whether the lesbian attractiveness of woman is a statistically valid phenomenon? Could there just possibly be a slightly more vaguely possible explanation?

Having said that my Dad developed a taste for whisky and dry after a blood transfusion so who knows?

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GX

Dont get me wrong here, Im not trying to say there is something supernatural going on here. I was just wondering if there could be something going on here at the cellular level between the organs and the recipient that could drive these newly acquired cravings and behaviors. Maybe certain tastes for foods and beverages are imprinted at the cellular level and get transferred along with the organs or blood? I have no knowledge of cellular biology or physics so Im just making a very raw uneducated guess here.

romansh

well GX .... I'll make a raw uneducated guess.

Highly unlikely

by the way you from the UK?

all the best

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debdodd

You know ... that is one thing I wish forum members would put on their profile .... I don't care how old you are, male, female, etc but I would love to know how widespread our world demographics are ....

So how about it folks ... lets all put at least the state/country we reside in?

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GX

Nope, Chicago Illinois....

debdodd

thanks GX ... now if the others would do like wise, with city or country it would be so great!

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