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Tuesday, February 27, 2007
This post is concerning how a kidney donor died afer donating her kidney to her husband. The story was taken from the 27th february issue of THE STRAITS TIMES. Two years ago, in february the 15th Madam Kuar was admitted to the hospital, a day before she underwent surgery to donate her left kidney to her husband who was suffering from chronic renal failure.
Chronic renal failure or chronic kidney failure, CKF, is a slowly progressive loss of renal function over a period of months or years and defined as an abnormally low glomerular filtration rate, which is usually determined indirectly by the creatinine level in blood serum.
CRF that leads to severe illness and requires some form of renal replacemnet therapy (such as dialysis) is called end-stage renal disease. You could also have the failing kidney replaced if you could find a donor.
Two years ago, 6 hours after the surgery, his wife Madam Kuar passed away after donating a kidney to him.During the trial,Dr Li Man Kay head of the renal trnasplant team testidied that the surgery was without any complications but Madam Kuar passed away due to the slip of the clips which were holding Madam Kuar's left renal artery and vein shut, resulting in sudden internal bleeding around the area of her abdomen.After this incident the hospital has taken measures to ensure that this does not happen again. They have reinforced the clips with sutures or metal clips to ensure that they do not slip, these clips are called hem-o-loks.
Hem-o-lok clips are being used in major surgical operations to tie up arteries and veins to prevent bleeding.Another doctor Dr Ravintharan believed that is was the pressure from such a large vessel as the renal artery which might have caused the problem as the clip could not have taken that much pressure and causing it to slip.
From this event, i feel sorry that such a mishap had befallen Madam Kuar. However, i would also not blame the doctors as how can you blame them for something that they cannot control. I haev also learned from this review that have a disease is not something which is good as it affects ourselves and our friends and relatives.In this case it cause the death of his wife, so the best way i can think of to prevent this from happening to me is to eat heathly and exercise regularly.
Chronic renal failure or chronic kidney failure, CKF, is a slowly progressive loss of renal function over a period of months or years and defined as an abnormally low glomerular filtration rate, which is usually determined indirectly by the creatinine level in blood serum.
CRF that leads to severe illness and requires some form of renal replacemnet therapy (such as dialysis) is called end-stage renal disease. You could also have the failing kidney replaced if you could find a donor.
Two years ago, 6 hours after the surgery, his wife Madam Kuar passed away after donating a kidney to him.During the trial,Dr Li Man Kay head of the renal trnasplant team testidied that the surgery was without any complications but Madam Kuar passed away due to the slip of the clips which were holding Madam Kuar's left renal artery and vein shut, resulting in sudden internal bleeding around the area of her abdomen.After this incident the hospital has taken measures to ensure that this does not happen again. They have reinforced the clips with sutures or metal clips to ensure that they do not slip, these clips are called hem-o-loks.
Hem-o-lok clips are being used in major surgical operations to tie up arteries and veins to prevent bleeding.Another doctor Dr Ravintharan believed that is was the pressure from such a large vessel as the renal artery which might have caused the problem as the clip could not have taken that much pressure and causing it to slip.
From this event, i feel sorry that such a mishap had befallen Madam Kuar. However, i would also not blame the doctors as how can you blame them for something that they cannot control. I haev also learned from this review that have a disease is not something which is good as it affects ourselves and our friends and relatives.In this case it cause the death of his wife, so the best way i can think of to prevent this from happening to me is to eat heathly and exercise regularly.
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4:59 AM
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
This is not about the Singapore versus Thailand soccer match but rather about the buying over of Shin Corp by Temasek Holdings. As you may have read, the Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra was overthrown by the military just because of this sale. However in today's straits times Thailand wants to "properly" buy back the satellites. They are doing so as General Sonthihad called the satellites "national assetes which should not simply be taken away from the Thai people. Moreover, he alleged that Singapore could monitor Thai army phone calls through its control of Shin Corp. These events from the start of the sale of Shin Corp to the most recent the buying of the satellites back from Temesak has led me to think why is Thailand making such a fuss about it. I can understand that they are worried that with control over their telecommunications their state secrets would not be safe. However, should they have ousted their Prime minister and fined Singapore for just buying over Shin Corp? From what i have heard there has been many political implications caused by this event. This may be because the Thais think that Singapore is trying to gain a foothold in their country through the control of their largest telecommunication company. I feel that Thailand has not handled this case well as why should they fine Singapore about US$1 billion when Temasek had legally bought Shin Corp. On the other hand, i overheard my relatives discussing this and they said that Singapore is also in fault as the government surely would have known that by buying Shin Corp, the Thais would not be happy. Also, i feel that Thailand fined Temasek out of jealousy of Singapore wealth as Singapore although being such a small country has lots of assests placed throughout the world. I feel this way as if Thailand really wanted Shin Corp back as the sale was a violation of their laws they should just have taken the company back instead of asking Singapore to pay such a huge fine on top of the initial amount paid for the company. I seriously hope that everyone can come together and decide on something the both parties can agree on, and there will be no more disagreement and fights, and a end to this conflict.
This article was taken from the STRAITS TIMES of Wednsday, 21st Feb 07
LIVING.out.of.REALITY;
5:37 AM
Yes! On the 20th of feb me n my friends, Shannon Bryan etc. went to Sicc and we gambled our ang bao money. We played black jack and poker but the best was that in one game of poker i managed to win about 50 dollars!!!
LIVING.out.of.REALITY;
5:34 AM
Wednesday, February 07, 2007
its so hard to create a blog...
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4:36 AM
