{"id":109555,"date":"2024-08-02T18:13:05","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T22:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=109555"},"modified":"2024-08-17T20:24:55","modified_gmt":"2024-08-18T00:24:55","slug":"friday-night-billys-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2024\/08\/02\/friday-night-billys-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday night – Billy’s heart"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We made a spur the moment decision to head down to Houston for two days\u2026   >> one “nice” thing is it we won’t be shocked by the hot and humid weather down there\u2026 We have it up here in Vermont.\u2026 It reminded me of Houston day when I got out of the car with air-conditioning and my glasses fogged up as they hit the muggy air<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“We headed down to houston because Max is in town working on the new meow Wolf and Billy and his family are there. Billy’s just been part of an amazing scientific and medical advance\u2026. For the last several years he’s been\u00a0 working with the company by Bivacor on a totally implantable artificial heart. There had been artificial hearts before, but this is the first one that doesn’t actually have a pulse. What’s more is it only has one moving part. It’s an amazingly ingenious design. They tested it on hundreds of animals. it is a huge advance towards, creating a permanent heart replacement. The initial FDA approval stipulate that it can only be used as a bridge to transplant\u2026 But eventually, it will be a permanent replacement. Several weeks ago Billy helped the team implant that a very ill 54 year old man\u2026 The surgery went perfectly and by the end of the next two weeks, a donor heart had been located and was successfully transplanted into the patient. The guy is now up and around and eating donuts and ice cream for breakfast. The news of it was embargoed for about two weeks until the health outcome was known\u2026 And now we’re able to talk about it. It’s all over the news.\u00a0 .. Just google william e cohn\u00a0 and bivacor.. .. there are tons of articles about it .. like this one<\/a> !

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We are so proud of Billy and his team!\u2026 There’s a great opportunity to go down and celebrate with him\u2026 When we got there, we found him instead of tampering with somebody’s internal organs\u2026 He was breathing life into an old BMW to see how he could make it remote control for a parade next April\u2026 Totally ingenious<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We spent the rest of the day hanging out with Sean and Billy and the kids\u2026 So super fun getting to spend time with them\u2026 They are also full of information and fun facts and house has gotten all sorts of cool gadgets and toys<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fight me evening Max came to meet us and we all went to an all night Mexican restaurant. It was so fun and so good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One fun thing we did was to take the New York Times dialect test<\/a>\u2026 By answering about 20 questions it tries to identify where you are from. Check this out it nails me directly as being from  Houston\u2026!
Billy and Shauns son Billy Jr took it and it identified him as being from Boston, which is technically true<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Super fun being down here even if it’s for just for a day aor so<\/p>\n

nite all , nite sam<\/p>\n

-me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We made a spur the moment decision to head down to Houston for two days\u2026   >> one “nice” thing is it we won’t be shocked by the hot and humid weather down there\u2026 We have it up here in Vermont.\u2026 It reminded me of Houston day when I got out of the car with air-conditioning … Continue reading Friday night – Billy’s heart<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109555"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109803,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109555\/revisions\/109803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}