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Transplants create special bond

ESCANABA — Imagine not being able to breathe. That’s how life was for Bill Weissert, of Escanaba, and Dan Simpson, of Arizona. Chronic lung disease required both to undergo lung transplants at the University of Wisconsin and veteran’s hospital in Madison two years ago. Each received a lung from the same donor. “Lungs are the hardest organs to transplant,” said Weissert. “They have the least success.” Ironically, doctors claim that lung transplant recipients develop closer bonds than other organ recipients, he said.

Tivo Lifetime Subscription

Had I known that Tivo was going to become the video DVR staple that it is, I would have picked up a number of series 2 dvrs and complete with lifetime subscription 10 years ago. Unfortunately, I did not. Tivo no longer offers a lifetime subscription and charges around $14 a month to subscribe to their update service. The lifetime subscriptions could be had for under $200 back in the day and that is a pretty good deal if you consider what it would cost you today on a monthly basis. One thing that is nice is the tranferability of the Tivo lifetime subscription from one unit to another. There is no cost to transfer a lifetime subscription that I know of and even if there is, it is unlikely to make transfering the subscription an issue. Units that have a lifetime sub on them are starting to become rare but, they can still be found online and off.