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		"They met for the first time at a party and within minutes, one had offered to donate her kidney to the other" (dailymail.co.uk)		38
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thelordofcheese

2011-12-29 05:03:32 AM

biatches be crazy.

tankjr

2011-12-29 05:10:01 AM

I wonder what kind of sweetheart deal these two worked out. Did one offer to wetnurse the others children, tan buckskin and smoke fish for her?

AbbeySomeone

2011-12-29 05:46:22 AM

Strangers have never offered me their kidneys. Now I don't feel special.

balisane

2011-12-29 05:52:24 AM

Seems reasonable to me. If you meet someone who's dying, and the difference between their life and death is a day or two in hospital and some discomfort for you, and you're a match and otherwise in good health, why on earth wouldn't you do it?

Seriously, i can't think of a reason. I'm racking my brains. Lady's brother is a douchecanoe, and the donor woman just seems to have a good head on her shoulders.

EvilEgg

2011-12-29 06:28:40 AM

balisane: Seems reasonable to me. If you meet someone who's dying, and the difference between their life and death is a day or two in hospital and some discomfort for you, and you're a match and otherwise in good health, why on earth wouldn't you do it?

Seriously, i can't think of a reason. I'm racking my brains. Lady's brother is a douchecanoe, and the donor woman just seems to have a good head on her shoulders.

Well you life expectancy plummets, I'd say that's a decent reason.

balisane

2011-12-29 06:44:14 AM

EvilEgg: balisane: Seems reasonable to me. If you meet someone who's dying, and the difference between their life and death is a day or two in hospital and some discomfort for you, and you're a match and otherwise in good health, why on earth wouldn't you do it?

Seriously, i can't think of a reason. I'm racking my brains. Lady's brother is a douchecanoe, and the donor woman just seems to have a good head on her shoulders.

Well you life expectancy plummets, I'd say that's a decent reason.

Link says no, it stays the same. That's a pretty recent study it's referring to.

Even if it did shorten your life expectancy, which it apparently does not, better to share your remaining years with someone who might otherwise have none, seems to me.

Mistress Jedana

2011-12-29 06:46:17 AM

As the wife to someone who is eligible to get on the transplant list in 6 months (for a kidney, no less)....yada yada

/dusty in here
//willing to give mine but we're not a match
///going to do the whole circle donation thing!

DrPainMD

2011-12-29 07:00:19 AM

balisane: EvilEgg: balisane: Seems reasonable to me. If you meet someone who's dying, and the difference between their life and death is a day or two in hospital and some discomfort for you, and you're a match and otherwise in good health, why on earth wouldn't you do it?

Seriously, i can't think of a reason. I'm racking my brains. Lady's brother is a douchecanoe, and the donor woman just seems to have a good head on her shoulders.

Well you life expectancy plummets, I'd say that's a decent reason.

Link says no, it stays the same. That's a pretty recent study it's referring to.

Even if it did shorten your life expectancy, which it apparently does not, better to share your remaining years with someone who might otherwise have none, seems to me.

Since there is a chance that the donor could die during the kidney-removal surgery, survivors would have to have a higher life expectancy for that to be true.

Egoy3k

2011-12-29 07:17:04 AM

I DNRTFA

Can't women with only one kidney also have difficulties bringing a child to term? If so I think maybe wanting to have kids would be a reason not to donate.

Babies with Rabies

2011-12-29 07:21:30 AM

Obligatory (new window)

EvilEgg

2011-12-29 07:29:02 AM

DrPainMD: balisane: EvilEgg: balisane: Seems reasonable to me. If you meet someone who's dying, and the difference between their life and death is a day or two in hospital and some discomfort for you, and you're a match and otherwise in good health, why on earth wouldn't you do it?

Seriously, i can't think of a reason. I'm racking my brains. Lady's brother is a douchecanoe, and the donor woman just seems to have a good head on her shoulders.

Well you life expectancy plummets, I'd say that's a decent reason.

Link says no, it stays the same. That's a pretty recent study it's referring to.

Even if it did shorten your life expectancy, which it apparently does not, better to share your remaining years with someone who might otherwise have none, seems to me.

Since there is a chance that the donor could die during the kidney-removal surgery, survivors would have to have a higher life expectancy for that to be true.

Losing weight improves your life expectancy. How much does a kidney weigh?

weave

2011-12-29 07:44:11 AM

Mistress Jedana:
///going to do the whole circle donation thing!

What? Such things exist? Sigh.... my best friend just died in October from primary sclerosing cholangitis. I was willing to donate a part of my liver but was not a match. Doctors never mentioned this circle thing when I offered. That makes perfect sense. I'm sure somewhere there was another person willing to donate half a liver to their best friend and couldn't who might have been a match for my friend and me a match to their's, and we could have just swapped.

I'm guessing it's good idea in theory but not in practice. Like what if I seemed like a match for someone but in testing their friend turned out not to be a match for mine. Then what? I withdrawal my offer waiting for a mutual match? That'd be pretty heartless.

/we need more people being organ donors when they die :(

CMYK and PMS

2011-12-29 07:45:37 AM

A virtual stranger donated a kidney to my wife 2 yrs ago so I'm getting a kick out of this. True story, they worked together in the same building but didn't know each other.

wedding vegetables

2011-12-29 07:46:48 AM

she met someone by chance at a party who happened to be a compatible organ donor? with luck like that, she should play the lottery. and give none of the money to her brother.

I'd totally give up a kidney to a friend in need, although I'm pretty sure mine are full of stalagmites.

The_Time_Master

2011-12-29 07:57:55 AM

Sounds like a Rusty Venture...

images.regretsy.com

Oh no, not again!

shivashakti

2011-12-29 08:12:53 AM

That's wonderful! What an amazing person.

/getting a kidney transplant in February

yaz Syphis

2011-12-29 08:20:41 AM

shivashakti: That's wonderful! What an amazing person.

/getting a kidney transplant in February

it really is cool, It is harder on the donar then the person getting it Very cool

Wonderduck

2011-12-29 08:30:51 AM

I offered a chunk of my liver to my mother when she was critically ill, so I'm getting a sad from this article.

/I was a perfect match.
//she needed more than just half my liver... she needed an entire liver and a kidney.
///which wasn't a problem, actually. That's the most common multi-organ transplant, and if a liver is available, usually a kidney is, too.
//Didn't happen.
/She died.

rocky_howard

2011-12-29 08:37:08 AM

Why are we talking about a bad Will Smith movie?

O_o

Mistress Jedana

2011-12-29 08:55:16 AM

weave: Mistress Jedana:
///going to do the whole circle donation thing!

What? Such things exist? Sigh.... my best friend just died in October from primary sclerosing cholangitis. I was willing to donate a part of my liver but was not a match. Doctors never mentioned this circle thing when I offered. That makes perfect sense. I'm sure somewhere there was another person willing to donate half a liver to their best friend and couldn't who might have been a match for my friend and me a match to their's, and we could have just swapped.

I'm guessing it's good idea in theory but not in practice. Like what if I seemed like a match for someone but in testing their friend turned out not to be a match for mine. Then what? I withdrawal my offer waiting for a mutual match? That'd be pretty heartless.

/we need more people being organ donors when they die :(

It's a circle thing. I donate to someone, they have a loved one donate to someone else, they have a loved one donate, etc etc...until it goes full circle and my husband gets his. It's happening more frequently than in past years, but it still isn't widely done.

Kidneys and bone marrow can be donated while living. We need more people being organ donors when they are alive.

thelordofcheese

2011-12-29 08:56:18 AM

rocky_howard: Why are we talking about a bad Will Smith movie?

O_o

Because no one would talk about his movies otherwise.

mariner314

2011-12-29 08:58:33 AM

I'm selfish. As long as I'm breathing, my stuff is mine. When I'm dead, take it all and give it to others.

I imagine if I had kids i would do it for them however.

bbcard1

2011-12-29 09:09:12 AM

There was a time when I often offered an organ to women I had just met at a party. It was rejected, though.

Vacation Bible School

2011-12-29 09:16:17 AM

"so he took her to a supermarket. I don't know why but he had to start it somewhere, so it started there..."

Fano

2011-12-29 09:29:00 AM

Did this happen to that farker that got into a fistfight at the last Tech shooting?

Benjimin_Dover

2011-12-29 09:30:26 AM

tankjr: I wonder what kind of sweetheart deal these two worked out. Did one offer to wetnurse the others children, tan buckskin and smoke fish for her?

Because of the way my eyeballers read that the first time, I now I have the image of somebody nursing in a tan buckskin outfit while smoking a fish.

/Hmmm. Not bad ackshully.

Pumpernickel bread

2011-12-29 09:37:20 AM

wedding vegetables: she met someone by chance at a party who happened to be a compatible organ donor? with luck like that, she should play the lottery. and give none of the money to her brother.

I'd totally give up a kidney to a friend in need, although I'm pretty sure mine are full of stalagmites.

I don't think matching for a kidney is as difficult as it is for something like bone marrow. I think the donor has to be of a cetain age, in good health, and have a blood type that is compatitble with the recipient. Could be wrong, but I don't think finding a matching donor is as improbable as winning the lottery, particularly if you have a common blood type. I am a little screwed in that respect if I ever need a transplant. I am O-negative. Can only take blood (or organs) from other O'negatives.

Diogenes

2011-12-29 09:44:24 AM

My cousin did this. Donated her kidney to her roommate while the two were in college.

lhclubs

2011-12-29 09:45:09 AM

Manoly Viravong (left) and her Veronica Buttigieg

I've often thought we all need our own Veronica Buttigieg.

Now I finally feel vindicated.

lhclubs

2011-12-29 09:48:37 AM

Manoly Viravong (left) was thrilled to receive a kidney from Veronica Buttigie

Thank you, Veronica, for donating a kidney and the letter 'g'.

PrivateCaboose

2011-12-29 09:55:37 AM

My kidneys! Mine!

blockhouse

2011-12-29 09:56:18 AM

There is a national bone marrow registry where people can sign up to donate their marrow to people in need. (It's at www.marrow.org and I highly recommend everyone reading these words to go there, read up, and register if they're eligible.)

Is there a similar kidney registry that does the same thing?

(Checks Google.)

Yep. www.kidneyregistry.org. Everybody get right on that too.

Dictatorial_Flair

2011-12-29 10:05:40 AM

Somebody should have done a psych eval before allowing that, that shiat isn't normal.

goaliehere

2011-12-29 12:19:41 PM

I donated a kidney in June of 2008 to my co-workers wife (who I didn't know at the time). She had a pancreas transplant at the same time. I would do it again in a heartbeat. It was a week or so of not being able to laugh, but it was worth it to see someone's life improve dramatically.

I may as well go full attention whore and post the link to the story.
Kidney Donor (new window)

/CSB?

Wonderduck

2011-12-29 01:01:22 PM

Dictatorial_Flair: Somebody should have done a psych eval before allowing that, that shiat isn't normal.

Yeah! How dare she save the life of a stranger?

Prof. Ann Marion

2011-12-29 02:05:11 PM

The_Time_Master: Sounds like a Rusty Venture...

[images.regretsy.com image 560x410]

Oh no, not again!

I see this has already been addressed...

Dictatorial_Flair

2011-12-29 06:40:57 PM

Wonderduck: Dictatorial_Flair: Somebody should have done a psych eval before allowing that, that shiat isn't normal.

Yeah! How dare she save the life of a stranger?

Yes, that's exactly what I was thinking.

DrPainMD

2011-12-30 05:06:57 AM