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Monday 7 June, 2010

బ్లాగ్మిత్రుల సందేహానికి...నా లాంగ్ జవాబు

హృదయం ప్రేమిస్తానంటే...విధి విడదీస్తానంటే !! కథని ఆదరిస్తున్న మీ అందరికీ నా కృతజ్ఞతలు. ఇకపోతే మొన్న రాసిన ఎనిమిదవ ఎపిసోడ్ తార్వత బ్లాగ్మిత్రులు చాలామంది, ఒకే సందేహాన్ని నా ముందుంచారు..

"భార్గవ్ కి చెయ్యబడినది బ్రెయిన్ ట్రాన్స్ ప్లాంట్ కాదు, అలాంటప్పుడు సుధీర్ ఐడింటిటి భార్గవ్ కి ఎలా వస్తుంది అని...." ఇంచుమించుగా అందరి సందేహమూ ఇదే.

ఇంతవరకు పరిపూర్ణ బ్రెయిన్ ట్రాన్స్ ప్లాంట్ జరగలేదు.. దీని మీద చాలా రీసర్చ్ కొనసాగుతుంది.

ఈ ప్రశ్న నేను ముందే ఊహించాను... దీనికి జవాబు నా దెగ్గర ఉంది...నేను కథ రాసే ముందే ఈ ఆర్గన్ ట్రాన్స్ ప్లాంట్స్ మీద బాగెనే రీసర్చ్ చేసాను.. ఒక పక్కా అవగాహణకి వచ్చాకే ఈ కథ మొదలెట్టాను, ఆఫ్ కోర్స్ తర్వాత కొన్ని మార్పులు చేర్పులు చేశాను అనుకోండి, కానీ అనుకున్న స్టోరీ లైన్ ఏమాత్రం మార్చలేదు .. మొన్న రాజు గారు అడిగారు, కామెంట్స్ చూసి స్టొరీ ఎమన్నా మారుస్తున్నారా అని... అలా ఎప్పటికీ చెయ్యలేదు, స్టొరీ డవలప్మెంట్ లో భాగంగా చిన్న మార్పులు చేశాను అంతే...

ఇక పోతే పై ప్రశ్న కి నా సమాధానం... ఈ సమాధానం చాలా వరకు medical jargon లో ఉండటం వల్ల, I feel am better off expressing it in English and hope you guys don't mind.

Well, i like your doubt and lemme explain in detail. I have done exhaustive research on this Organ transplants before writing this story as this subject matter has always been a fascinating factor for me.
Well, now i wont confuse you people with all the confusing jargon related to this and will come to this specific question.

Here, i wanna introduce you guys to a concept called "Cellular Memory". Cellular memory is a theory that states the brain is not the only organ that stores memories or personality traits, that memory as a process can form in other systems in the body and can be stored in organs such as the heart, lungs, liver etc. The memory traces will be formed in a special kind of memory cells called "Neuropeptides" in many vital organs of our body. I will tell more about Neuropeptides in the later part of my post.

It was Maurice Renard's Story "Les Mains D'Orlac" that popularized the idea for the first time. In the story a pianist looses his hands and a killer's hands are transplanted in their place. Of course the story has been spoofed and remade so many times in our own culture there's scarcely anyone that doesn't know how the story ends, with the killer's hands possessing the main character to kill. This is an extreme and over simplified version of what cellular memory could be.

First studies in heart transplant recipients Cellular Memory was noted when, upon waking up from surgery patients would display a strange change in tastes, opinions, cravings, and other personality changes that ranged to the extreme of change of self-identity

So,in addition to this, lemme give some real-life examples related to your question.

1. In 1970,a patient called Claire Sylvia received a heart and lung transplant from an eighteen year old male donor who had been in a motorcycle accident. None of this information was known to Sylvia, who upon waking up claimed she had a new and intense craving for beer, chicken nuggets, and green peppers, all food she didn't enjoy prior to the surgery. A change in food preferences is probably the most noted in heart transplant patients. Sylvia wrote a book about her experiences after learning the identity of her donor called A Change of Heart. She even confessed in her book that she is sexually attracted to girls after the surgery(remember her vital body parts has been transplanted from a male donor).

2. A 47 year old man receiving a heart from a 17 year old black boy suddenly picked up an intense fondness for classical music. The boy whose heart had been donated was killed in a drive-by shooting, still clutching his violin case in his hands. A 50 year old transplant patient claimed that his new heart was responsible for a sudden onset of eating disorders, heralded from the heart's previous owner, a 14 year old girl. Once a change in sexual orientation was even documented in a twenty seven year old lesbian who soon after getting a new heart settled down and married a man.

3. The most stunning example of cellular memory was found in an eight year old girl who received the heart of a ten year old girl. The recipient was plagued after surgery with vivid nightmares about an attacker and a girl being murdered. After being brought to a psychiatrist her nightmares proved to be so vivid and real that the psychiatrist believed them to be genuine memories. As it turns out the ten year old whose heart she had just received was murdered and due to the recipients violent reoccurring dreams she was able to describe the events of that horrible encounter and the murderer so well that police soon apprehended, arrested, and convicted the killer.

And other common quirks recorded due to vital body transplants have been changes in attitude, temperament, vocabulary, patience levels, philosophies, and tastes in food and music and finally to the stage of a change in identity.

Change in identity is very very rare, which i have already told you in the previous part. Change in identity happens depending upon the mental state of donor. Here, while am referring to mental state, i mean to refer strong emotional holds for a particular person or lover or parents. Their memory traces take a strong hold on Neuropeptides (as per celluar theory) and can take a dominating position in transplanted patient while sending messages to brain.

Lets see the working of this Cellular Memory. I told you about Neuropeptides in the starting part of my post. First these Neuropeptides were believed to exist only in the brain, but later inventions proved they exist in each vital organ of our body. There Neuropeptides are a way for the brain to "speak" to other bodily organs and for the organs to rely information back. This is how the donor memories stored in Neuropeptides of all major bodily organs are passed to the brain of the patient who has been transplanted with donor's vital organs.

Still some questions are unanswered in this research. Why don't all transplant recipients have these experiences? It's been theorized this may be due to the fact not all of them are in tune with their body as some other individuals may be. Perhaps the explanation lies with the sensitivity of the individual. I have told already about the mental state of donor which is more important.

Well, coming to our story, Sudheer is in love with Samhitha. His Neuropeptides in heart, liver, lungs etc store this information very strongly. Not to mention the fact that sudheer is so deeply in love with Samhitha, Well, in reality, attaining the full identity of donor may not be possible, but here in this story, Bhargav attains the maximum identity of sudheer. In this context, my assumption was to show you all that sudheer loves samhitha so deeply and crazily that his peptides in all the organs consolidated this fact and after transplantation they took the demanding position over the other peptides in patient, in sending this important information to brain every time. So actually Bhargav mind registered all this information while suppressing his own identity. Well, actually this is my assumption here - means how i applied this cellular theory to my story.

Hope am clear with the concept. Any more doubts in this subjects are welcome.

Well, It may be anecdotal, but many real life incidents happening cant be taken lightly. Well i dont wanna go more technical than this and any how i adopted this concept for my story. Hope am bit reasonable enough than just cooking something that really doesnt make any sense at all. I Hope this piece of technical info enough for me to write a story, moreover please treat this as story than going too deep into the concept to come up with something. Am writing this post as i feel it is my responsibility to alleviate some of the doubts of my blogger-friends. Iam happy with people who like my effort, and am more happy with people who feels it rubbish. Just a matter of fact, to tell u, this is my first story. I dont have any pre-experince on story writing and i knew am not perfect, but am trying hard to achieve some perfection day by day.

Thank you one and all for listening to me ------------------------- Ramakrishna Reddy Kotla

11 comments:

ప్రణీత స్వాతి said...

good homework..krishna gaaroo.

Malakpet Rowdy said...

Well well well ...

Your Narration ( and the story too) is EXCELLENT and no two thoughts about it. I was only curious about the technical aspect.

నేస్తం said...

:)_/\_ (చప్పట్లు)

Sirisha said...

good job...

శివరంజని said...

good homework . really hats off

..nagarjuna.. said...

as malak bhai says, nothing to point out about the way the story is being told. whether or not cellular memory exists the way it is entwined into the story is brilliant. much brilliant is the rest of the story....

Raj said...

nenu ee post complete ga chadavaledu.....

andhuke ee post meeda comment cheyyadam ledu...

but...na name ni mention chesaru kabatti

chinna correction im raj.... rajesh...not raju...

nenu aa roju chesina comment ni negative ga tisukoledu ane anukuntunna

Ram Krish Reddy Kotla said...

Swathi, Rowdy, Nestham, Sirisha, Ranjani, Nagarjuna and Raj: Thanks a lot for all your comments and encouragement :-)....

ప్రణీత స్వాతి said...

అబ్బా..కృష్ణగారూ..ఈ సస్పెన్స్ భరించలేకపోతున్నా..తొందరగా నెక్స్ట్ ఎపిసోడ్ రాసేయండీ.

ఆ.సౌమ్య said...

బాబూ మీ జవాబులు చాలుగానీ తరువాతి ఎపిసోడ్ ఎప్పుడు వస్తుందో ముందు చెప్పండి. ఇంకా ఎన్నాళీనిరీక్షణ. తొందరగారాయకపోయారో "సౌమ్య చదువుతానంటే రామకృష్ణ రాయనంటే...' అని టైటిల్ పెట్టి పోస్ట్ రాస్తా ఆ.

Ram Krish Reddy Kotla said...

ప్రణీత : ఇదిగో రాసేస్తున్నా

సౌమ్య : మీరు అంత వయలెంట్ డెసిషన్స్ తీసుకోకండీ రాసేస్తున్నా ... :-)