a women wth 4 kidneys

The teenager with FOUR kidneys who has promised to donate her extra organs to save lives


After Laura Moon started suffering stomach pains, doctors decided to carry out an ultrasound scan on the teenager.
When they saw the results, they were astounded.
For the scan revealed that she had four kidneys. The 18-year-old is now hoping to donate the extra organs for transplant operations.
Only a handful of people in the UK have four kidneys, although having three is relatively common. But Laura's case is especially unusual because all four are fully formed and functional.
Laura Moon discovered she had four kidneys when she had an ultrasound
Laura, a customer services adviser from Leeds, said: "I think if I've got four, I don't need all four. Why not donate if there's someone else in need?
"I hope I can help somebody else while I am young. I will do everything in my power to become a donor."
It is not known why people develop multiple, or duplex, organs but one in 125 people have one extra kidney, normally a partial organ.
Laura's condition often causes the patient no problems, although sufferers can be more prone to urinary infections.
She discovered she had the unusual anatomy six months ago when she was undergoing tests following a road accident.
"I was in a car crash a year ago and six months later I began having a lot of pain in my stomach. My GP referred me to the hospital for a scan."
Doctors at Seacroft Hospital in Leeds carried out the procedure. "I realised that the doctor scanning me hadn't said anything for a long time. I thought he was going to give me bad news," said Laura. "The guy just said 'You have got four kidneys'.
"He measured them and I have two which are 14cm and two which are 9cm.
"Then he also asked if I would mind if he took some photos to show to university students." Transplant surgeon Niaz Ahmad, from Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, said parts of the kidney system could be duplicated but he had never seen anyone with four full kidney systems.
"To have completely duplex kidneys on both sides is extremely rare," he said.
By coincidence Laura's aunt Dawn Fry has a third kidney - although the pair are not blood related.
Consultant urological surgeon Dr Robyn Webber, of Fife Acute Hospitals, said many extra kidneys are fully functional, meaning Laura should be able to donate.
Dr Webber added: "It is a relatively rare condition. Ordinarily they are left alone unless the patient is suffering any problems. But Laura will be able to manage perfectly well with two so assuming they are working correctly there is no reason why she shouldn't donate them."
According to the UK Transplant organisation, living donor kidney transplants now represent more than one in four of all such operations.

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headless chick

mike was a ordinary hen living in the farm of Olsen's. On September 10, 1945, Mike's un eventful short five-and-a-half month life had a stategic twist. On this day, Mike received a death sentence from his owners . His owner, Clara Olsen, stood for a lunch with this poor guy as the chief dish.However Clara's mother had a strange taste for the chicken head,so this pathetic guy(mike) was to be executed in a strange fashion
Olsen summoned his highness the lord of the farm husband Lloyd to chop Mike's head off and prepare him for the meal.
EXECUTIONER LLYOD SWASHED HIS SWORD AND THERE ROLLED THE HEAD OF THE MIGHTY MIKE
Mike's head was surely dead. Mike's body was not.
Now I know what you are thinking - it is well known that chickens will run around frantically when their heads are chopped off. That's probably where that old expression comes from. And, everyone knows that a headless chicken just can't survive more than a few moments.
Apparently, Mike forgot to read the rule book for playing the game of Life. His head may have been lying on the floor, but he had no problem standing up and strutting around as if nothing had actually happened. Day after day he continued to gain weight. Mike could easily balance himself on the highest perches without falling. His crowing consisted of a gurgling sound made in his throat. Mike even attempted to preen his feathers with his nonexistent head (apparently he never noticed). It seems that Mike could do just about anything that any other chicken could do, if you exclude all of the functions of his head.
As I'm sure you can imagine, headless chickens are not an everyday event. In the tradition of that famous huckster Barnum, there was money to be made in this oddity.
Miracle Mike, as he soon came to be known, toured up and down the West Coast of the United States. For just 25 cents, anyone could pay to get a look at Mike. If you had a spare $10,000 you could have purchased Mike so that you could have him all to yourself. They probably would have thrown in his head as a bonus - it was stored in a canning jar and toured along with Mike.
And, if there was money to be made, there were also copycats. Other people in Mike's hometown began to chop the heads off of their own chickens in an attempt to get in on the scheme. One copycat headless rooster was named Lucky and he managed to live for eleven days before bashing himself into a stovepipe and dying (Lucky wasn't that lucky after all). Several other headless chickens lived for a couple of days.
So how was Mike able to survive? Scientists examined him and determined that Mr. Olsen had not done a very good job at chopping Mike's head off. Most of the head was actually removed, but one ear remained intact. The slice actually missed the jugular vein and a clot prevented him from bleeding to death. Apparently, most of a chicken's reflex actions are located in the brain stem, which was also largely untouched.
Through his open esophagus, Mike was fed a mixture of milk and water with your typical eyedropper. He was also fed small grains of corn, which ultimately did him in.
Mike was traveling back home to Fruita with his owners. The Olsens heard Mike choking in the middle of the night. This had happened many times before, but on this night they could not find the medicine dropper that was needed to clear his throat. At four-and-a-half years of age (some people disagree on the exact age, but it was without question a long time for a headless chicken), Mike choked to death on a kernel of corn. Miracle Mike was no more.
But wait, the story is not over! Mike actually has his own holiday! On May 17, 1999, Mike's hometown of Fruita held the first "Mike the Headless Chicken Day" in honor of one of its most famous citizens. Some of the events included the 5K Run Like a Headless Chicken Race, egg tosses, pin the head on the chicken, and the classic Chicken Dance. Lunch included - you guessed it - chicken, chicken salad, and the like. Let's not forget the great game of Chicken Bingo in which the numbers were chosen by where chicken droppings fell on a numbered grid.
Hopefully Mike the Headless Chicken Day will be an annual event. I wouldn't miss for the world

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