I know alot of you old farts hate facebook, but if you do happen to use it I kindly ask that you check this out and share it, maybe help spread the word. Even if you arent geographically near, there is a kidney trading type program where an incompatible live donor can offer up their organ to trade out for a compatible one from elsewhere. there is alot more detail to this but thats the gist of it.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Find-a-Kidney-for-Jonathan-Tyler/533591706784838 A little background on this poor prick. hes my nephew, and one hell of a good kid. When he and his twin sister were we ones they got an e. coli infection assumed from a restaurant, but thats neither here nor there. The sister, thankfully recovered quickly, however he was not so lucky. The disease destroyed his kidneys. He went through a boatload of various treatment to try to salvage his native kidneys without success, ultimately landing him on dialysis while on a donor list. A cadaver kidney became available thanks to a Samaritan who had signed the back of his drivers license prior to getting killed (I recommend unless your religion doesn't allow that you sign that line) He underwent the transplant successfully. This normally would be the end of the story, except some thing were off shortly afterward, assumption was that there was an issue with rejection etc. After some time test revealed that the donor kidney brought with it a little present - cancer. It turns out that the donor was unaware he was going to get cancer. The donor registry tracked the organs, as I understand it, all the recipients developed cancer as well. They did everything they could to treat the cancer while preserving the donor kidney, but chemotherapy is hard on normal kidneys, needless to say it ultimately resulted in the transplanted kidney no longer being viable. He ended up back on dialysis (heres a kicker, to be on the transplant list, you have to be 1 year cancer free, even if you got cancer from the transplant). He has his two original kidneys and the donor one, but they have not been able to find it, assumption is the body treated it like dead tissue and absorbed it. I believe the last test had a negligible amount, like 3% function on the original guts. but here we are, he is back on the donor list, a young man with a bright future, yet a very grim and short one at the same time. Im not asking you to give up your guts, unless its something you want to do. All im asking is that you share this to social media if you use it. Thank you now returning to regularly scheduled programming -- All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore, if you can't get them together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do not use a hammer. -- IBM maintenance manual, 1925
