[stylist] Plot input.

[Alan]

Him,
Thank you for this.  This is the first tme in my attempts at writing that an 
idea I've had isn't so far fetched that I have given up on it.  So, I am not 
giving up on this idea at all. I have some research ahead of me, and am 
starting to wonder if this is too much for a short story and maybe better as 
a book, what with medical detail involved?  I don't want to be seen as 
glossing over details.

Now I just need the patience and fortitude to see this idea through and not 
move on to something else, as I ted to do.  I think, to borow from Richard 
Bach, this idea has me by the throat and doesn't want to release me until I 
have put it down on paper.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Canaday M.A. N6YR" <n6yr at sunflower.com>
To: "Writer's Division Mailing List" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 12:18 AM
Subject: Re: [stylist] Plot input.


> Dear Alan,
> Amy  beat me to it, but the scenario of two people having an autoimmune 
> heart condition and both needing transplants isn't so far fetched.
> without involvement of diabetes, if instead they as a couple traveled to a 
> part of the world with a Scarlet fever outbreak, and both contracted it. 
> later, they were both found to have heart valve problems and an autoimmune 
> rejection process going on.  now, a little less plausible is that they 
> would actually be able to be donors for each other's hearts.
> but here's a good intro on the Rheumatic fever issue:
> http://www.illness-disease.com/rec/364-Rheumatic-fever/
>
> for the two of them to be potential heart donors to each other and make it 
> a bit more plausible, they need to have the same blood type, be generally 
> the same size, and there are a couple dozen  titers in blood matching. 
> but some of that could be covered by maybe putting them both into a 
> religious/ethnic minority together I think.
>
> Alan, I'm recovering from congestive heart failure, my heart literally 
> pumps twice what it did five years ago.  back then, I was a few months 
> away from living in the hospital and waiting for transplant.
>
> in my case, and I think in most, docs try hard to save the heart rather 
> than going quickly to transplant.  transplant has a lot of risks.
>
> now, as to your plot, it is a great one and don't let anybody talk you out 
> of it!  there are good reasons why even ancient greeks thought that the 
> heart was the seat of all emotion.
> jc
>
> Jim Canaday M.A.
> Lawrence, KS
>
>
> At 04:48 AM 8/31/2009, you wrote:
>>I have an idea for a short story I want to write, but I want input on the 
>>strength of the overall idea.  Is it plausible, or am I asking the reader 
>>to suspend disbelief too much?
>>
>>Here's the idea, a couple (I haven't determined married or just lovers) is 
>>struggling with communicating with and understanding each other.  In a 
>>strange twist of fate, one (or both) have a heart condition that allows 
>>them to participate in an experimental surgery to literally swap hearts. 
>>The procedure is a success, but as they go the recovery from the surgery, 
>>they disover that they now more deeply understand each other.  Granted, 
>>yes, I know, something of a fairy tale, but isn't that what some 
>>literature is meant to be?
>>
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