[stylist] hearts and diabetes

[Alan]

Amy!  Thank you thank you thank you!

This is the key I needed for my story!  Lots of virtual hugs!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Amy Krout-Horn" <krouthorn at verizon.net>
To: <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 8:50 AM
Subject: [stylist] hearts and diabetes


> Hi All,
> I've been away for a while. The new book is keeping me very busy, but I 
> had a moment and wanted to comment on Alan's story idea. Perhaps the 
> characters suffer from a type of auto immune disorder. As a type 1 
> diabetic, I understand that my immune system does not recognize my own 
> insulin cells, therefore thinking that they are an invader, and destroying 
> them. Quite literally, my white blood cells and my insulin islet cells do 
> not "understand each other. Perhaps, in the case of your short story, the 
> immune system of each character does not "recognize the heart. With 
> diabetes, there have been some successful insulin cell transplants from a 
> living donor to the diabetic, and though the patient is required to take 
> immune suppressing drugs for the remainder of his/her life, the body 
> "accepts" the new insulin cells and lets them function. This existing 
> medical science may allow your story of the hearts to seem more plausible 
> to the reader, especially if you make it clear that the procedure is 
> experimental.
> Another thought I had when I read your idea was about the movie "Seven 
> Pounds" or maybe it was "Seven Grams", I forget, but Will Smith and 
> Rosario Dawson star, if that helps. It's an intense story concerning this 
> topic and, if you haven't seen it, I'd watch it for the sake of story 
> research.
> HTH.
> Write On,
> Amy
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