Horrifying to read. I don’t think we’re ready yet for radical transplantation like this until we perfect the immune-system reset procedure first that allows for doing away with anti-rejection drugs.

Whatever happened to that research? I had read there was some success in resetting a person’s immune system, by taking out bone marrow immune stem cells from both the donor and donee, letting the stem cells mature together in-vitro, and then injecting them back into the bone (after zapping the donee’s original bone marrow), giving the person an immune system that now saw both tissues as ‘self’.

"Once a successful businessman, Robert is now reliant on GoFundMe campaigns; his car has been repossessed, and he can’t get to church. He suffers through rejections and infections, and he cannot afford caregivers. Sometimes, he gets so weak he can’t even call an ambulance. And if he did, that would be an extra cost he can’t afford either. "