Alie Ward

There are TDs for archery, lacrosse, table tennis, basketball, fishing, golf, ice hockey, softball, baseball, uneven bars, martial arts, billiards, volleyball, bowling, weightlifting, and cricket.

And there's many more for artists and other occupations, she writes.

And there's also engineers working on whatever needs might come up.

Also, a TD is a terminal device or an end of limb prosthetic for limb loss or limb difference.

I also loved how, because you went to that conference, you were sort of embedded there and you were able to tell your readers, this is like the nomenclature they use now.

This is kind of the vibe, like here's questions not to ask.

You sort of exposed through your own experience how people in that community are

would rather interact with people, which I thought was very helpful to someone who wasn't familiar with it.

You know, you also went to a pig hospital, essentially, like in terms of xenotransplantation.

Was there any parts of writing this book or any parts of looking at replacing human parts that really freaked you out that you had to get over the eye surgery or like a beating heart cradled in your hands or freaked you out?

And for some very recent research on this from late August, you can see the article in Nature titled Pig-to-Human Lung Xenotransplantation into a Brain-Dead Recipient, which reports a case of pig-to-human lung xenotransplantation in which a lung from a six-gene edited pig was transplanted into a 39-year-old brain-dead male human recipient following a brain hemorrhage.

and further studies are necessary.

But reducing the risk of, say, endogenous pig retroviruses busting into human hosts like a horror movie and our own immune systems trying to evict this precious organ, these tweaked genes are the key.

Okay.

Yeah, just your own pig in goop.

You've got a goose pig somewhere waiting for you.

Waiting for you to fail.

Yeah, exactly.

Have you given more thought...

to donating your body.