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Congrats on the successful transplant man! It's funny how you can be so happy for someone you have never met or knew.

I expected they would cut you open vertically, I wasn't expecting the "pez dispenser" style that /u/lardlung mentioned :)

So what's the outlook on the long term recovery? Is it just a matter of healing up all the wounds and getting to grips with the medication? Or is there more to it? And besides taking meds and being careful of your surroundings are there going to be any limits on your activities?

Wow, thanks man, very informative!

It is just that, in the same way as becoming President of the United States is just a matter of winning enough votes and candidating in the first place.

Haha, I guess I had that one coming ;) English is not my mother tongue, in no way I wanted to downplay the procedure nor recovery!

6 months after surgery all structural damage should be healed completely.

Incredible when you think about it. About a year ago I broke my lower leg pretty badly and had a piece of shinbone sticking out. Now a year later and quite a few pieces of metal richer I really cannot tell it was once broken (except when you feel around for the screws or the weather is really cold). The human body is amazing.

Sudden physical exercise is another thing to avoid. Due to severed nerves, your brain can no longer tell your heart to beat faster/slower. So your heart has to rely on hormon cues in your blood instead of nerve signals from your brain to adjust its rate

I really did not know that. So these nerves are severed as part of the transplant it self? Also I never knew hormones function as a sort of secondary way to influence hart rate.

Thanks again for your post Ramjid!