If someone you know needed an organ like a kidney... and you were healthy and the doctors said chances are that you would live a normal life with one kidney, should you choose to give it up..... How much would you sell it for???
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It is perfectly possible to live an extraordinary life with just one kidney, I have 2 friends who have done, one of them on receipt of a donor kidney.
But I agree with all the above comments...
Family - no question...yes if a tissue match
Friend - no charge...if a tissue match
Stranger - well I suppose if I wasnt using it any more.....
You cannot put a price on life....
But I agree with all the above comments...
Family - no question...yes if a tissue match
Friend - no charge...if a tissue match
Stranger - well I suppose if I wasnt using it any more.....
You cannot put a price on life....
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Especially after seeing the suffering my first husband went through with his leukemia including after he received his bone marrow transplant there is no way I would even consider charging anyone that badly needed something for the sake of thier health. I was in and out of that hospital and seen toooo much to make me wish I could make it all end. The worst I think is walking into the hospital and going to see the woman in the room next to where my husband was one afternoon and finding her bed empty. To top it off she looked like an old friend of mine and spoke in the same soft voice as her too. She had two very young children. One was just under 2 years old and will not remember her mother. The other only around 4, but she never filled that childs heart with false hopes. If anyone is sick we should be caring at that time. People mean so much to other people even if we do not know them that much. I sit and wonder how that man is making out raising those two now without her. Now I know I prefer to keep all my organs just in case the day comes that one of my children may need my help. But I would give up anything they need in a heart beat.
I dont know why, but I want to somehow validate my opinions on this matter...
8 years ago I lost a very close friend to pneumonia after a successful kidney transplant. The anti rejection drugs they give you after a transplant are essentially an artificially enforced AIDS - they suppress the immune system to prevent rejection. the biggest drawback here is even the simplest infection, a common cold or similar can grow and kill the patient. And it happens fast, 3 days in my friends case...
When it was determined he needed a transplant, I did what any true friend would do, I volunteered to be tissue matched. It turned out I wasnt a match. But if I had been I would have donated without a question.
When he died, it really screwed with my head for a few weeks, running all the 'if only' scenarios. But I eventually realised that even if it had been my kindey, there would have been no guarantees. I came to appreciate the things we had done, and the time we spent together as good friends before he died.
The risks are very clearly explained to both the reciever and potential donors of a transplant. They wont even let you test unless you understand what you are getting involved in - at least in the UK they do.
That all being said, I have another friend who also had renal failure. I did not hesitate to go to be tissue matched, again I wansn't a match. This friend recieved a donor kidney 4 years ago. Having seen the decline of his health into renal failure, he has now resumed an almost normal life after the transplant.
You dont get many true friends in life...value each and every moment with them...
8 years ago I lost a very close friend to pneumonia after a successful kidney transplant. The anti rejection drugs they give you after a transplant are essentially an artificially enforced AIDS - they suppress the immune system to prevent rejection. the biggest drawback here is even the simplest infection, a common cold or similar can grow and kill the patient. And it happens fast, 3 days in my friends case...
When it was determined he needed a transplant, I did what any true friend would do, I volunteered to be tissue matched. It turned out I wasnt a match. But if I had been I would have donated without a question.
When he died, it really screwed with my head for a few weeks, running all the 'if only' scenarios. But I eventually realised that even if it had been my kindey, there would have been no guarantees. I came to appreciate the things we had done, and the time we spent together as good friends before he died.
The risks are very clearly explained to both the reciever and potential donors of a transplant. They wont even let you test unless you understand what you are getting involved in - at least in the UK they do.
That all being said, I have another friend who also had renal failure. I did not hesitate to go to be tissue matched, again I wansn't a match. This friend recieved a donor kidney 4 years ago. Having seen the decline of his health into renal failure, he has now resumed an almost normal life after the transplant.
You dont get many true friends in life...value each and every moment with them...
You dont get many true friends in life...value each and every moment with them...
Wow, how profound, how true. Trouble is, it usually takes us too long to figure that out.
Wow, how profound, how true. Trouble is, it usually takes us too long to figure that out.
