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First man in UK to have hand transplant used it to save his wife’s life by performing CPR
The UK’s first patient to have a hand transplant has told how he went on to save his wife’s life by performing CPR after she went onto cardiac arrest.
Ten years after Mark Cahill, 61, underwent the surgery at Leeds General Infirmary, the former pub landlord has revealed how it changed his life.
‘It’s just like my own hand. I know it’s somebody else’s hand but I think of it as part of me,’ he said.
And six years after the surgery, Mr Cahill used his new hand to perform CPR on his wife Sylvia, keeping her alive for 10 minutes after a cardiac arrest before paramedics arrived.
The UK’s first patient to have a hand transplant has told how he went on to save his wife’s life by performing CPR after she went onto cardiac arrest (pictured together)
Ten years after Mark Cahill (left), 61, underwent the surgery at Leeds General Infirmary, the former pub landlord has revealed how it changed his life
He said: ‘She’s fit and well today. That was using my transplanted hand. So, it saved somebody else’s life as well, it’s been fantastic.’
Mr Cahill understands how hard it must be for families faced with a specialist nurse asking for a donation so soon after a tragic event in their lives.
‘That must be a terrible decision for them to make. You can see the hand whereas you can’t see the other organs.
‘I’m so chuffed with the families who have agreed to it. And, I’m well pleased that I got one, that somebody did that for me.’
He said: ‘It’s a sorrowful thing but they’ve given me that new hand for 10 years.’
Mr Cahill said: ‘She’s fit and well today. That was using my transplanted hand. So, it saved somebody else’s life as well, it’s been fantastic’
Pictured: Mr Cahill, who was the first person in the UK to have a hand transplant in 2012, with Surgeon Simon Kay, at Leeds General Infirmary
In sharing his experience, Mr Cahill was able to help Corinna Hutton prepare for her own double hand transplant.
Ms Hutton lost both her hands and her legs to sepsis in 2013, and was scared of the procedure after she was warned it could take ‘months’ for her to accept the new hands as her own.
‘He was able to tell me what it was really like to live with it,’ she said. ‘That’s the way I needed it to be. Careful and cautious wasn’t me.’
‘It’s changed my life incredibly. I’m so grateful. Being able to touch my son’s hair, touch his skin, feel the warmth, things like that. It blows your mind. You take this for granted so easily.’
She said the first few months after the transplant were very hard but the breakthrough came after about five months when she went to Glastonbury and was ‘back to being me’.
Mr Cahill understands how hard it must be for families faced with a specialist nurse asking for a donation so soon after a tragic event in their lives
In sharing his experience, Mr Cahill was able to help Corinna Hutton prepare for her own double hand transplant
‘Since then, it’s been a constant improvement,’ she said. ‘Even now, four years later, every week I get to do something new or something that defeated me.’
‘The minute I woke up they were mine. They were instantly mine. They looked like mine, they felt like mine, they were mine.
‘Then I had this guilt-trip straightaway, thinking somebody’s just died and given me their hands. I don’t ever want to forget that. Any time I celebrate my hands I think about how another family is coping.’
Unlike Mr Cahill, Ms Hutton has met her donor’s family.
She said: ‘They can see her and feel her and touch her with my hands. It just blows your mind, doesn’t it?’
Six years after the surgery, Mr Cahill used his new hand to perform CPR on his wife Sylvia, keeping her alive for 10 minutes after a cardiac arrest before paramedics arrived
Chris King, 63, from Rossington, near Doncaster, received a double hand transplant in 2016 after losing all his fingers apart from his thumbs in a horror work accident.
‘It’s been a weirdly wonderful journey,’ Mr King said. ‘Life’s back to a good state.’
Mr King said that, while he never really thinks of his hands coming from someone else, he regularly thinks about the donor.
‘I wonder what he was like. Was he a family lad? Did he have a daughter or a son?’ he said. ‘Was he a biker, because I love motorbikes?’
He said he agonised over writing a letter of thanks to the donor’s family, who he has not met. And, soon after the operation, he said he spent a full day crying for the person who had died and his family.
‘I was crying and thinking about the donor – what was he like? And I suppose they’ve done a lot of crying themselves.’
Mr King said it has not been an easy journey since 2016 but he would not think twice about doing it again.
He said he is amazed when he sees how fast his finger nails grow. And he said he knew he had accepted his new hands when he found himself biting his nails – something he has not done since, on doctors’ advice.
A grieving father leads a sea of cyclists on his wife’s last route
For the family, their arrival has brought relief — and pain. Relief because it means they will no longer have to live out of suitcases. Pain because those boxes contain so many reminders of Sarah Langenkamp, who was killed in August when the driver of a flatbed truck struck her as she rode her bicycle from an open house event at her sons’ elementary school.
“It’s heartbreaking,” Dan Langenkamp said of sifting through his wife’s belongings. So many items call out for her, he said, “They say ‘I need her.’ They say, ‘I need the owner of my stuff for me to be useful, and she’s not here.’ ”
Those boxes don’t just contain yoga pants; they contain her yoga pants. They don’t just contain boots; they contain her boots.
“Right now, it’s cold and she has this beautiful pair of winter boots that are just empty,” he said. “I had to put them in the back of the closet.”
On Saturday, drivers passing through Bethesda, Md. and D.C. might have seen a sea of cyclists riding through the streets together. They were following Dan Langenkamp along the last route his wife traveled — and then, they rode further than she was able. Together, they rode from her children’s elementary school to the crash spot on River Road. They then continued on, riding until they reached the Capitol Reflecting Pool. There, they called on federal lawmakers and officials to dedicate resources and put in place measures that would help make roads across the nation safer.
More than 1,500 people were expected to participate in the “Ride for Your Life” event, which was promoted by Trek, the Washington Area Bicyclist Association, Families for Safe Streets and others. Among those who participated were people who loved Sarah Langenkamp, including her children, and people who had never met her but recognized in her death a need for action. She was a U.S. diplomat who fled Ukraine to seek safety, only to die on a Washington-area road.
“Deadly road design is a policy choice,” said Colin Browne, of the Washington Area Bicyclist Association. “The tools for making streets safer for everyone — people walking, rolling, biking, taking the bus, driving — exist, and they are in use in cities all over the world.”
Browne described Saturday’s ride as a way to protest “a simple, grim reality: hundreds of people die and thousands suffer life-altering injuries on our region’s roads every year, not because we don’t have know how to prevent it, but because too many of our elected officials and agency leaders are still afraid to make driving and parking marginally less convenient.”
In an earlier column, I told you about Sarah Langenkamp. I’ve also told you in other columns about other pedestrians and cyclists who have been fatally injured on roads in the region: 32-year-old Brett Badin, 5-year-old Allison Hart, 70-year-old Michael Hawkins Randall, 64-year-old Charles Jackson, 65-year-old Michael Gordon and 40-year-old Shawn O’Donnell. Those last four deaths happened within the same month.
Behind each of those names is a family that was unexpectedly thrust into mourning and activists who rose up to ask, again, for officials to do more to prevent future deaths.
There have been other rides and gatherings in the region aimed at bringing awareness to the need for road safety improvements. But most of those have demanded local officials take action. At Saturday’s event, participants called on Congress to fund safe biking and pedestrian infrastructure and the Transportation Department to implement measures to improve truck safety. One measure would require large trucks to add structural guards on the lower front and sides to prevent cars, bicycles or pedestrians from sliding underneath.
Langenkamp said his wife could have survived if that measure had been in place. The truck that hit her was traveling in the same direction as her when it turned right into a parking lot, according to police.
“These deaths are really violent,” Langenkamp said. “We should not cover that up. Nobody should be killed on our streets like this. People say she was ‘struck by a truck’ or ‘hit by a truck.’ No, she was crushed by a truck, and killed instantly on the side of the road.”
His voice shook as he said that. He knows that’s not a gentle image, but what she experienced was not gentle, and he believes people need to recognize that to fully understand what traffic victims and their family members experience.
On Saturday, several people gave speeches and a few high-ranking officials sent statements that were read aloud. One of those came from U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. In it, he acknowledge the significance of the event coming the day before World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims.
“Each year, on the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims, we mourn those who have lost their lives in traffic crashes,” the statement read. “But mourning is not enough. We must all dedicate ourselves to ending this crisis on our roadways and creating a safer transportation system so that more families do not have to share this grief.”
After his wife’s death, Langenkamp received notes from senators and other U.S. officials. One letter came from President Biden.
“Sarah will always be remembered for her unwavering commitment to our Nation,” reads Biden’s letter. “She was an exceptional diplomat who dedicated herself to fulfilling America’s promise to its citizens and the world. We are especially grateful to your family for both your and Sarah’s courageous service in Ukraine.”
In a letter, Attorney General Merrick Garland told of working with Sarah and described her as representing “the best of America, working tirelessly and at considerable personal risk and sacrifice on behalf of our country to pursue peace, democracy, prosperity, and adherence to the rule of law.”
Dan Langenkamp worked at the state department with his wife, but he has taken a leave since her death. He has spent his days instead, he said, trying to make sure she didn’t die for nothing and learning how to parent two children on his own. Their sons were 8 and 10 and had just enrolled in a new school when the crash happened
“It’s been really hard,” Langenkamp said. “It was super emotional to go to Target the other day to buy some extra winter stuff. We always went to Target together, and suddenly I was this hapless dad by myself doing it. I was trying to choose pants that fit, and Sarah knew that stuff cold.”
When he talks about unpacking those boxes, he wavers between describing it as part of the “unraveling of our lives” and the “raveling our lives.”
“Sometimes,” he said, “I’m walking back from my sons’ school and I’m thinking, ‘I don’t know how I’m going to do this by myself.’ ”
Country singer Jason Aldean dropped by PR firm following backlash over wife’s comments: reports
(NEXSTAR) – Country singer Jason Aldean has been dropped by his longtime PR firm days after his wife, Brittany Aldean, made critical comments about gender-affirming care for trans children.
“Music has always been and remains The GreenRoom’s core focus, so we had to make the difficult decision after 17 years to step away from representing Jason,” said Tyne Parrish, the co-owner of The Green Room, in a statement first shared with Billboard. Parrish also confirmed the news to Variety.
“We aren’t the best people for the gig anymore, but will always be big fans of his music — he is one of the greatest live entertainers in country music,” Parrish told Billboard.
The Green Room, based in Nashville, declined to specify why Aldean was dropped. A representative for the firm did not respond on Friday to request for more information.
News of the Green Room’s decision followed backlash against Aldean’s wife, Brittany Aldean, who wrote last week in an Instagram post that she would “really like to thank my parents for not changing my gender when I went through my tomboy phase.”
Singer and songwriter Cassadee Pope responded to Brittany Aldean’s post on Twitter, saying that Brittany Aldean’s alleged “tomboy phase” in no way compares “to someone wanting to transition.”
“The Bones” singer Maren Morris later commented on Pope’s post, writing, “It’s so easy to, like, not be a scumbag human? Sell your clip-ins and zip it, Insurrection Barbie.”
Morris appeared to be referencing one of Brittany Aldean’s Instagram posts from shortly after the Capitol riots in Jan. 2021, in which she suggested that some of the rioters were actually “Antifa disguised as Trump supporters,” Rolling Stone reported at the time. Such claims have been repeatedly debunked since the insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021.
Following Pope’s tweet, Brittany Aldean responded to Pope directly in an Instagram Story.
“Advocating for the genital mutilation of children under the disguise of love and calling it ‘gender affirming care’ is one of the worst evils,” she wrote, in part, as seen in a screengrab shared by People.
Brittany Aldean would later say on Instagram that her recent comments were “taken out of context,” though she did not specify which remarks she felt were misinterpreted.
Jason Aldean, who released his first studio album in 2005, has been a client of The GreenRoom since 2006 — which is the same year the firm was founded, according to The Tennessean. Other notable clients include Dierks Bentley, Lady A, and Thomas Rhett, per The GreenRoom’s official site.
Baker Mayfield opens up over wife’s ‘death threat’ reveal
Baker Mayfield addressed the death threats his wife said they received on social media earlier this week with relative indifference, saying that “it’s not like it’s anything new for us.”
Mayfield received vocal criticism after throwing four interceptions in Cleveland’s 24-22 loss to the Packers on Saturday. The barbs came from all angles. His own teammate, safety John Johnson III, tweeted during the game that he had missed due to a hamstring injury to RUN THE DAMN BALL.
More seriously, Mayfield’s wife, Emily, said they were receiving death threats.
“The death threats, lies being told about my husband, and blatant DISRESPECT never ceases to amaze me,” she wrote in an Instagram story. “For the record — I pray for those of you who even think those thoughts, let alone type them out. I hope you can find some happiness so you stop trying to steal it from others.”
Mayfield was asked about this by reporters on Thursday.
“It’s hard for me to say not to listen to it because I have quite a bit of experience of hearing a lot of opinions on the outside coming in,” he said. “It’s hard when it comes down to somebody that you love, that you care about. She’s not able to change some of the outcomes of the game — or any at all.
“It’s just one of those things that we’re in a world today where there’s a lot of keyboard warriors that make empty threats and things like that, which it’s quite honestly ignorant when they go after people who aren’t involved in football. When you talk about taking your own life, killing somebody, that’s ignorance.”
Mayfield said that he tunes it out, but it’s hard to advise other loved ones to do that.
“I try not to listen to it, because those are not the people that I would listen to whether it’s good or bad, regardless,” he said. “It’s tough to tell your loved ones and your family not to defend you and look into that stuff, that’s just human nature.
“You have to take it one day at a time and realize that your priorities, your family members, the people who truly matter to you — that’s who you need to listen to. It’s just one of those things that it’s blown up to be a much bigger deal on the outside. It’s not like it’s anything new for us.”
Scott Peterson faces new life sentence in wife’s 2002 death
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Nearly 17 years after being sentenced to die, Scott Peterson will be resentenced Wednesday to life in prison in the 2002 slayings of his pregnant wife and unborn son that gripped the world then and since.
The California Supreme Court ruled a year ago that his jury was improperly screened for bias against the death penalty. Stanislaus County District Attorney Birgit Fladager, who came to fame as one of three prosecutors in Peterson’s trial, opted this time to settle for life without parole.
Wednesday’s hearing is expected to be brief but could be emotional, with statements from some family members of 27-year-old Laci Peterson, who was eight months pregnant when she was killed carrying the boy the couple planned to name Connor.
“You are going to burn in hell for this,” Laci’s father, Dennis Rocha, who died in 2018, yelled at Peterson during his first sentencing. “Your life is done.”
Up to 16 of her family and friends are to be seated in the jury box, and up to 16 of his supporters elsewhere in the courtroom.
Prosecutors say they expect either written or spoken statements from Laci’s mother, Sharon Rocha, and her brother and sister, Brent Rocha and Amy Rocha.
Defense attorney Pat Harris said Tuesday that Peterson is prepared to speak if the judge allows it, something Peterson didn’t do during his initial trial and sentencing.
“This would be the first (time) that he speaks substantively about the case,” said Harris, who also participated in the original trial. He expects Peterson’s supporters to also be in the courtroom to show their support, but they are not allowed to speak.
Superior Court Judge Anne-Christine Massullo, who will resentence Peterson, is separately considering if Peterson was prejudiced by juror misconduct.
But she opted to resentence Peterson first, over the objections of his lawyers, to resolve a problem with his status.
He has been in San Quentin State Prison, home to California’s death row, since he was condemned to death in March 2005. That followed his conviction in November 2004 during a trial that was moved 90 miles (145 kilometers) to San Mateo County because of worldwide publicity.
But Massullo said he couldn’t stay on death row once prosecutors said they would not again seek his execution. He has since been moved to the county jail for resentencing and is expected to remain there until Massullo decides on whether he should get a new trial.
She plans about a weeklong hearing from Feb. 25 through March 4 to hear defense claims that the woman known as Juror 7 falsely answered questions during the selection process.
They say she actively sought to join the jury and later co-authored a book on the case. Richelle Nice has not been named in court papers but co-authored the book with six other jurors.
Defense lawyers contend she was biased because she had been a crime victim, which she did not disclose during jury selection. They learned only later that she had been beaten by a boyfriend in 2001 while she was pregnant. She obtained a restraining order during another pregnancy against a boyfriend’s ex-girlfriend because she was fearful the woman would harm her unborn child.
Nice said in a court filing that she didn’t think the restraining order was a lawsuit that she had to disclose on her jury form, nor did she “feel ‘victimized’ the way the law might define that term.”
Massullo will have 90 days after next year’s hearing to decide if Peterson should get a new trial.
Prosecutors say Peterson took his wife’s body from their Modesto home on Christmas Eve 2002 and dumped her from his fishing boat into the San Francisco Bay, where they washed ashore in April 2003.
Defense attorneys say new evidence points to nearby burglars, though investigators say they were ruled out as suspects.
Supreme Court justices said in their August 2020 decision overturning his death sentence that there was considerable circumstantial evidence incriminating Peterson in the first-degree murder of Laci and the second-degree murder of Connor.
It included that the bodies washed ashore near where Peterson admitted he was fishing on the day they disappeared. He had researched ocean currents, bought a boat without telling anyone, and couldn’t explain what type of fish he was trying to catch that day.
Also, in the weeks after Laci disappeared but before the bodies washed ashore, he sold his wife’s car, looked into selling their house, and turned the baby nursery into a storage room.
Peterson was eventually arrested after Amber Frey, a massage therapist living in Fresno, told police that they had begun dating a month before his wife’s death, but that he had told her his wife was dead.
Man believes wife’s death could be related to deer meat
MONROE, La. (KNOE) -An Ouachita Parish woman died from Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease in 2020. It left her husband searching for answers and a year later, he discovered her symptoms were similar to a disease found in deer called Chronic Wasting Disease. CWD causes blindness, the inability to walk and to eat.
“We were married 47 years and she died four days after our 47th anniversary. Now in the studies that I’ve done, it’s possible to transmit Chronic Wasting Disease to humans,” said Jeff Holloway, a West Monroe Resident.
The CDC says there is no evidence that CWD can infect humans. The Deer Program Manager with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries says the disease could live in deer for more than a year without any symptoms. He says the community should get their deer tested for CWD. He also says if deer test positive, don’t eat the meat.
“Again, in most cases, hunters will be unaware. That’s kind of the importance of surveillance. We’ve been conducting surveillance since 2002, we’ve tested over 12,000 deer in Louisiana,” said Johnathan Bordelon, the Deer Program Manager at Louisiana Department of Wildlife.
Officials say they haven’t found a positive case of CWD in Louisiana. Click here if you would like to find out how to get your deer tested.
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Valerie Bertinelli mocks author over Twitter posts about wife’s ‘pronoun’ incident
Actress Valerie Bertinelli sounded off Wednesday after a Lebanese-Canadian behavioral scientist and writer claimed his wife had an awkward encounter with a suspected transgender server at a restaurant.
Gad Saad, 57, the Montreal-based author of “The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Diseases are Killing Common Sense,” claimed his wife recently became “frozen in fear,” not knowing how to speak to the restaurant employee, because she wasn’t sure if the server was transgender and didn’t want to risk using an incorrect pronoun.
Bertinelli, 61, known for TV roles on “Hot in Cleveland,” “One Day at a Time,” and many other shows – and for her 26-year marriage to the late rocker Eddie Van Halen – wasn’t having it.
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She suggested a list of things Saad’s wife could have said that wouldn’t have been offensive – and accused the author of “looking for targets” so that he could later “cry victim.”
“’Hi’ ‘Pardon me’ ‘How are you this morning?’ ‘May I please have’ ‘Thank you’” the star wrote.
Valerie Bertinelli is seen in New York City, Aug. 21, 2019.
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“Language you can use without worrying about someone’s pronouns. But you don’t really care about that, do you? You’re just looking for targets, then you can cry victim when people come to their defense.”
Saad went on to explain that his wife had wanted to say “he’ll get the hang of it” to the server’s colleague, commenting on the server’s job performance, but wasn’t sure “he’ll” was the right pronoun to use.
The author also claimed that “natural categorization mechanisms” were “built into our brains and languages.”
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Later, he complained about the negative comments he received about his posts.
“Wow the hate that I’ve received today from ‘tolerant’ folks because I shared a tweet about my wife being unsure how to address a barista (in terms of pronouns) has broken my all-time record for tweet impressions in a day!” Saad wrote. “To some apparently, progressive hate is an elixir of life.”
Bertinelli retweeted Saad’s post – and appeared to interpret it as proof of her earlier “cry victim” comment.
“Clockwork,” the star wrote.