Today is a Day 9
Today's Blocks 6 7 8 1 2 3
Today's Birthdays: Daniel Garces
High School News:
This Saturday, December 5th, CCA and Calvary Chapel Fort Lauderdale is hosting their very own 5K run/walk! We want to encourage all CCA students and staff to participate in this exciting outreach. The race will be hosted by the Oasis Ministry and Calvary Christian Academy and will benefit the All Saints AIDS camp (in the Bahamas) and CCA Athletics. Visit the CCA or CCFL website for more details. You won't want to miss the fun so SIGN UP TODAY!
Clubs:
Edifice will meet TODAY during lunch in the Discipleship Building Media Center
Film Club will meet TODAY in Mr. Negron's room
Tri-M Music Honor Society will meet TODAY during lunch in the Band Room
Activities Council will meet TOMORROW during lunch
Athletics News:
JV Girls Basketball vs. Yeshiva start@5:30
On This Day in History
December 3, 1967
First human heart transplant
On December 3, 1967, 53-year-old Lewis Washkansky receives the first human heart transplant at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa.
Washkansky, a South African grocer dying from chronic heart disease, received the transplant from Denise Darvall, a 25-year-old woman who was fatally injured in a car accident. Surgeon Christiaan Barnard, who trained at the University of Cape Town and in the United States, performed the revolutionary medical operation. The technique Barnard employed had been initially developed by a group of American researchers in the 1950s. American surgeon Norman Shumway achieved the first successful heart transplant, in a dog, at Stanford University in California in 1958.
After Washkansky's surgery, he was given drugs to suppress his immune system and keep his body from rejecting the heart. These drugs also left him susceptible to sickness, however, and 18 days later he died from double pneumonia. Despite the setback, Washkansky's new heart had functioned normally until his death.
In the 1970s, the development of better anti-rejection drugs made transplantation more viable. Dr. Barnard continued to perform heart transplant operations, and by the late 1970s many of his patients were living up to five years with their new hearts. Successful heart transplant surgery continues to be performed today, but finding appropriate donors is extremely difficult.
The Word of God for the Day
1 Cor 13:12 Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
The Official CCA Bad Joke of the Day
Two cows are standing around one day when one cow says to the other, "So what do you think about this mad cow disease?" The other cow replies, "What the do I care? I'm a helicopter!"
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