Spoiler & speculation for House next week

[deelaundry]

Speculation for ep 5-10 and after: I think Wilson is going to undergo Living Donor Liver Transplantation (LDLT) to save the POTW. "The donor's liver will regenerate approaching 100% function within 4–6 weeks and will almost reach full volumetric size with recapitulation of the normal structure soon thereafter," says Wikipedia, so the House team will use the six-week hiatus to be able to totally skip the "Wilson recovering" stage and the first ep in January will have him back to normal (or almost normal).

And for those concerned that RSL might use this to seek a permanent path back to full-time Broadway: "Death after LDLT has been reported at 0% (Japan), 0.3% (USA) and <1% (Europe), with risks likely to improve further as surgeons gain more experience in this procedure."

Your thoughts?

In unrelated news, who's going to buy Wilson the Mangroomer for Xmas?

Comments

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

Livers are pretty crazy organs. The polar bear's liver has so much vitamin A it's actually toxic for humans, so it's not eaten by the Inuit.

Do you think if they go the surgery route we'll see RSL's naked chest? Is that too much to hope for?

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

RSL has very clearly avoided showing us his chest in other episodes, so I'm betting he'll avoid it again here. Unfortunately.

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

I'm suddenly getting the crazy idea of a "stunt chest." Like hand models.

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

They do that for surgeries, so why not for surgical prep?

(Here, have some nekkid men.)

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

The world could use more naked men, even if only to balance out all the naked women. I think Ewan McGregor's said something to that effect as to why he does so many nude scenes.

(From the angle and the shadows, the man on the right looks quite a bit like House. I'd better stop there.)