Small-town Transplant Gifts

"We're in the city now, Bob—stop making eye contact with everyone."

'OK, the old one's in my right hand, the donor's in my left. Rght?'

'Okay, Mom. I'm sorry I re-gifted one of the kidneys you gave me.'

Things I love about Powell River...

'Henry had a successful animal organ transplant - isn't that right, Henry?'

Wyatt returns home to visit his old small town.

"Well, Mr. Goddam Fancy-Pants Small-Town-Expose hot shot! What makes you think we don't all have lusty, kiss-and-tell memoirs boiling away inside us?"

"Maybe I needed a brain also! I left my heart in San Francisco!"

'I've just realised where we went wron...g'

'I don't know who I am. I have a donor heart, a donor kidney, a donor liver,a donor cornea, a donor lung...'

Surgeon to other: 'First organ transplant?'

Pig heart donation saves human life

Organ Transplant Service - "Rather ironic isn't it...we need a new pump."

The shakedown escalates.

"Don't worry. I'm doing someone's liver resection tomorrow and I'll grab one of their kidneys."

'Here comes the transplant specialist now.'

"I just ate my organ donor card."

"CSI Tulsa"

"I couldn't find parking in the city, so I moved home, got back with my high-school girlfriend, had a baby, and got a great deal on a new car."

'If we let this happen, soon we'll be swamped in chain stores.'

'We are doing everything we can to find a donor.'

statue in park: 'Arnold P. Rossiter, a local boy who went to the big city and made it big... and now he's back home, flipping burgers, just like we always said he would.'

Shepard and sheep on toop of sky scaper

"During the holidays, we like to refer to organ donation as 'regifting.'"

Hadleyville Has-Beens

Historic Medical Moments: The first time a body rejected a heart before it was transplanted.

"We'll be using a pig's kidney in the transplant....Suit yourself, we'll try a turnip, good luck with that!"

'You can close rural Post Offices on-line now.'

"Hello Billy, how is your mother?"

"That liver went to someone who doesn't have such a big yap."

The docs just install the artificial heart. We at Al's garage do the maintenance on the battery.

Take An Organ, Leave An Organ

Surgeon with an 'eyes box' in his refridgerator.

'Sounds like insider trading to me.'

"Six beers for the transplant surgeons, please!"