Logan and I celebrated Pi Day in style. Friday night, in preparation, we had homemade pizza pies. Saturday after getting a haircut I went to the cleaners, and almost got a printout to more significant digits: https://twitter.com/hideandpeck/status/576744667712135168 We picked up a Pie Guy Key Lime Pie later on Saturday and ate it while I recited all …
6-way Chain of Kidneys
Logan and I love to see news of others that have received a new organ. Recently in San Francisco there was a 6-way kidney exchange: http://www.wired.com/2015/03/science-behind-crazy-6-way-kidney-exchange/ The kidney is a more common transplanted organ, and also in higher demand. It's a fickle organ that is very sensitive to changes in the immune system. A live transplant also …
Sleeping
Getting up in the morning is difficult. I had some concerns that my desire to stay curled up in bed the last few days was related to my health condition. I really don't think it is. I've gathered intelligence from my co-workers and discovered that most of them have recently been suffering from the same affliction and, as far as …
The Math of Organ Donation
A friend at work came across this article today on the math of matching donors to recipients. In some instances, specifically with kidney transplants, recipients might have a willing donor, but they aren't a tissue match. With the help of an altruistic donor--someone who wants to donate an organ without a specific recipient in mind--surgeons …
Summit for Life: Part 3
Logan, Kathleen and I were first in our respective divisions. But I couldn't help but look at the entire population of finishers to see how we compared to the rest of the field. Before travelling to Aspen, one of our friends warned us that there are only three types of people there: current Olympic athletes, …
The Derek Janiak Hepatobiliary Forum 