For us, we spent a lot of time planning a strategy before planning the operation. His team of doctors carefully choreographed the 2 operations, stabilizing Bill first, then operating on his brother for 5 hours. They took half of Scott's liver out, flushed it of all the blood, then transplanted into Bill. Doctors credit brother Scott for his courage, too. Scott admits he was quite nervous at first because it's a very traumatic surgery.
Doctors say they're extremely happy about the outcome of the operation.
Because the liver is an amazingly regenerative organ, Scott's liver is already growing back to near full size. Bill's doctors are happy with his progress, too. They say he's passed the most critical period, which is the first ten days following surgery. European scientists have developed a drug that uses a promising new approach to ease cravings for cocaine in addicted rats. The only other drugs available either mimic cocaine so much that they themselves can become addictive, or block its effects so well that addicts overload on cocaine to deal with the pangs of withdrawal.