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The DIY Dialysis Machine
Millie Kelly was born with a condition that required an immediate operation. During this operation her kidneys started to fail and since she was too small for dialysis machines, doctors told her parents that she was unlikely to live. Luckily for Millie, Dr. Malcolm Coulthard and a colleague tried to build a much smaller kidney machine on their own and they were successful. Her mother said, "It was a green metal box with a few paint marks on it with quite a few wires coming out of it into my daughter - it didn't look like a normal NHS one." The girl was hooked up to the machine over a seven day period to allow her kidneys to recover. Two years later, her mother Rebecca says she is "fit as a fiddle." You should see what Dr. Coulthard can build using a postage stamp, a tuning fork, a lawn chair and a jellyfish.
Chewing gum was used, he's got nothing on Macgyver.
There are no loopholes. It's either legal or it's not.
now i trust there will be a whole slashdot article category devoted to these girls? i, for one, welcome our new humanoid dialysis-building overlords.
Indeed, I SHOULD see that. What the hell DOES the good doctor make out of those things?!?
I would like to nominate this as best sentence of the year.
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...you had better be a model yourself. Given that you are posting here on Slashdot that's pretty unlikely...
As a 26 year old model and C coder, and grandmother of three, I am offended by your comment.