Rod Carew will receive heart transplant today

[fan_since79]

He was matched with a donor and he will have the transplant today, KCAL-TV and NBC News are reporting.

http://mlb.nbcsports.com/2016/12/15/rod-carew-matched-with-a-heart-donor-will-receive-a-transplant-today/?ocid=Yahoo&partner=ya5nbcs&yptr=yahoo

[SlappyUtilityMIF]

Good! Haven't spoke with Rod in approximately 10 years. I hope it takes!

[Troll Daddy]

My cousin was the first female heart recipient in New Mexico. That was over twenty years ago. She is still alive and well.

Wishing the best for Carew. 

[Homebrewer]

One of the last times I was at the Big A (playoffs in 09?) he was there and received a standing O.

Good Luck Mr Carew..

[Blarg]

Hope he makes it through and can have more time without being plugged into a battery pack. He shouldn't be alive today but by a miracle and also being in good physical condition he made to transplant day. 

Sadly someone else had to pass on to leave a donor heart. Thoughts and thanks to those that fill out a donor card and remorse for the family that lost a loved one to make this possible so close to the new year.

[Wallerrrr]

WIshing him the best. Good Luck Rod....

[California Cajun]

Wow, you think players you grew up with are indestructible, then you get sobering news like this.  Hope Rod is with us a long time.

[ukyah]

good luck to rod carew. that's as big a surgery as it gets.

[AngelStew43]

Good Luck, Rod!

[ScottT]

Someone should let the Angels know about this.

Based on social media, they don't seem to. 

[Homebrewer]

4 hours ago, ScottT said:

Someone should let the Angels know about this.

Based on social media, they don't seem to. 

Lots of peanuts to wash @ Orangewood and St College these days, so there's not a lot of time for sentimentality. 

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[tomsred]

4 hours ago, ScottT said:

Someone should let the Angels know about this.

Based on social media, they don't seem to. 

Well it is in the news headlines on the Los Angeles Angels MLB website, so I'm not sure what else you would like them to say.

http://losangeles.angels.mlb.com/index.jsp?c_id=ana

 

[Redondo]

Wish you well and a quick recovery Rod

[Tank]

Any updates on how things went? Hoping things went well for him.

[LooneyPlatoons]

7 minutes ago, Tank said:

Any updates on how things went? Hoping things went well for him.

I read that it is something like an 18 hour procedure that started late last night.  He is having a kidney transplant as well.

[IEAngelsfan]

Wow, that's a lot of transplanting..........they can rebuild him!

Hope all went well.

[ELEVEN]

1 hour ago, LooneyPlatoons said:

I read that it is something like an 18 hour procedure that started late last night.  He is having a kidney transplant as well.

Wow, that makes it sound like there are gonna be some very long odds for recovery. Godspeed Rod.

[Angel Oracle]

Someone had called in to Lodge's show on Wednesday, to mention that Carew was having both transplants performed on him. 

That is a lot for a body to go through.   Here are my prayers for both to go well. 

[ukyah]

anybody that goes through something like this has to know that any day past today is a gift. rod seems like the type of guy to understand that. i hope he gets many days to enjoy life and be with his family.

[LooneyPlatoons]

 

 

 

[Make Angels Great Again]

Awesome news.

[fan_since79]

Rod Carew received his new heart and kidney from a 29-year old former NFL player who died of a brain aneurysm, Konrad Reuland.

http://www.latimes.com/sports/angels/la-sp-rod-carew-heart-20170415-story.html

Edited April 14, 2017 by fan_since79

[fan_since79]

from the Times article linked above:

Carew wore No. 29 throughout his 19-year career with the Minnesota Twins and Angels, and his heart attack inspired an American Heart Assn. “Heart of 29” campaign to increase awareness about heart disease. All Carew knew of his donor at the time of the transplant was that he was a 29-year-old man.

Konrad and his brother, Warren, now 28, and Cheyenne and Devon Carew (Rod's children) were middle-school classmates at St. John’s Episcopal School in Rancho Santa Margarita.

About 15 years ago, a teenage Konrad met Rod Carew at a middle-school basketball game — Warren and Devon were teammates — and spent the rest of the day bragging to his family that he met the Hall of Famer.

According to an official with OneLegacy, the Los Angeles-area chapter of the nationwide organ donor procurement network, this is the first time they’ve heard of anonymously matched organs between families that knew each other. It’s believed to be the first time a heart has gone from one pro athlete to another.

[Homebrewer]

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