Its great that people are saved by surgery. How sweet. Its bad that people are so lame thier lives need a boost of insperation from watching a show on how a stranger made it through to live another miserable day. When every person on the show would rather just be dead than a cripple. In todays world these cripple inspire a normal person, yet they are pushed to the lowest class of society. You people sicken me. Some people would do anything to get on TV, others just like to make themselves feel good.
Levi

Levi

People will go to great lengths to live and this IS inspiring. And the doctors who help them achieve this are heaven sent. The way you describe people as "cripple" (not normal) and pushed to the lowest class of society, leads me to believe you are the one who is crippled, by your negative, small minded views. You need to sign up for a heart transplant, no...that would probably be a waste of a good heart.

I can't believe your heartless nature!!! NO ONE ASKED for these things to happen. I NEVER asked to have to have Sebastian's heart backwards. I can guarantee that all of these patients did not request to be on TV, they were asked when the surgeries were already planned. I, for one, would have rathered to have a normal healthy baby than to be on TV for this. You must live a miserable existance to criticise innocent people instead of the true evils of the world.

ok here's the thing if you think people would rather be dead than cripple your wrong. im LIVING proof i have cerebral palsy and am afected everyday by it but you know what i don't wish i was dead rather than being cripple. i work with it and you know if your mad because i see others succeed and am inspired by im sorry but for me seeing james and john fight and work through it, it'll be easier next time i see a person half my age out run me in a race. i wont care so much. and if we are in a " lower" class of society than its because of your ingnorace that we are.

Levi-

This show about "cripples" and miserable days after surgery that you so ignorantly described has offered family's like mine a little bit of hope knowing that there is a way to spread some knowledge on some of the rare surgeries they have performed.
My dad has been a kidney patient on and off dialysis for over 10 years battling each and every day for the uncertainty of how the next one will be. Knowing that a show on kidney transplants and showing that there are ways for caring people in society to help people like my father offers a sense of comfort for my family. I am a 23 year old college student graduating this year, planning on donating a kidney to my father and for the first time in over 10 years was able to relate to someone else (Tracy) who has been willing to do anything and everything to find life for someone they care about.
Why not put that on National television? It spreads the idea of hope and feeling that there are others like my family.
I respect the fact that you are entitled to your own opinion, but you are obviously unfamiliar with a situation like this from the context you wrote that message. Your ignorance offends me.

-Jeff

Levi-
You seem very bitter. Did surgery not save the life of someone you love, or was it you? I agree that our society doesn't treat the disabled as equals, and shame on us for that. Your view of the show exploiting people's pain for profit seems a bit myopic. Can't you see that other people might glean some hope from seeing someone persevere thru a situation that is similar to their own? Or that someone might be inspired to do something to make another person's life better?

Or were you hoping that by making such angry comments that people would inventory their own attitudes towards disabilities and diseases that NO ONE would ever ask for? If its the latter, then good for you! If not, then shame on you for implying that people who have had to have surgery(s) to live a more normal life (or continue living) deserve anything less than admiration for their struggles. Televising their struggles does not minimize, cheapen or exploit them, it offers others insight and perspective. Two things that you seem to lack.