Ladies, just when you thought the world was getting crazier and crazier, doctors at a Chinese hospital have performed a caesarean section on a turtle. Yes, I said turtle!
Keepers at Chengdu City Zoo sent the turtle, called Dabao, to hospital for an x-ray to find out why she was so lethargic, reports China Central Television.
“We were amazed to see that there were 14 eggs in her body,” said Wu, the administrative director of the zoo.
“We suspect she was having a difficult labour because too many eggs were congesting the outlet.”
The zoo sent the turtle to Chengdu 416 Hospital for a caesarean delivery, and doctors more used to human patients managed to improvise.
The turtle hid inside its shell so the anaesthetist had to wait patiently and then act quickly when she popped her head out.
Hospital director Dr Liu Wei said: “We decided to open the shell covering its stomach with a skull opener since the shell is about as hard as a human skull.”
It took more than two hours for the doctors to open the shell, remove the 14 eggs and then reseal the shell with epoxy resin.
Zoo keepers say Dabao is now on the way to a full recovery and her eggs have been buried in sand to await hatching.
19 Feb, 2007
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I can honestly say that no matter how much I needed the money, I would not allow anyone to have my eggs.
Your eggs are the link to recreating yourself, they are your future children. Why would you allow someone to create one of your own children?
Human egg donation was a rarity not so long ago. But heightened demand for eggs — and rising compensation for donors — are prompting more young women to consider it.
Jennifer Dziura, a 28-year-old New Yorker, is one of them.
She received $8,000 to donate her eggs in the fall of 2005 and hopes she’ll be chosen again before the private egg broker she’s registered with considers her too old. She realizes prospective parents who view her profile might think it a minus that her father is adopted, allowing for little medical history from his side. She also figures some are looking for a blonde, instead of a brunette.
As more older moms look for help getting pregnant, younger women have become increasingly willing to part with their eggs. Some do it to help relatives and friends, or from a sense of altruism, but others openly acknowledge money is a big factor in their decision, prompting critics to worry that they’re helping drive an unregulated market for human tissue.
In 1996, women in federally monitored programs donated eggs just over 3,800 times. That number has risen steadily, to more than 10,000 in 2004, the most recent year for which the Centers for Disease Control has compiled data.
A decade ago, Dr. Joel Brasch, a fertility specialist in the Chicago area, had to work hard to recruit five or 10 young women for his own practice’s donor pool — but not anymore.
The money is seen as compensation for time and trouble. Among other things, donors learn to inject themselves with hormones and, eventually, have a needle inserted through their vaginal wall so eggs can be harvested.
“Everyone does it for the money,” says Dziura, the egg donor in New York. “No one would do that for free — maybe for your sister, but not for a stranger”.
SOURCE:MSNBC
