A Question About Giving up a kidney.
 

An acquaintance of mine donated a kidney. My wife told me about it.

I said, "Oh, did he have a sibling who needed it or something?"

She said, "No, he just always wanted to donate a kidney."

"Donate it to who?"

"Anyone. So he's made arrangements and he's donating one."

After several moments of disbelief and confusion, I finally understood that this guy had always thought it would be cool to donate a kidney, so he made arrangements and did it. Just had the doctors take it out, and presumably it's now in some other person.

I had no idea that a person could do this. I always figured that donations either came after death, or you could do it for a specific person. Did you know that a person could do this?

What do you think about this?

Yeah, no. Then you get T boned by some dumbass, lose your other kidney, then spend several days a week visiting the dialysis clinic

Sounds like a wonderful person but so much can go wrong. Wow.

Pretty sure I drink too much to go handing out kidneys.

I worked with a guy who gave his brother a kidney. He said the complications and the medication you have to take for the rest of your life is a hassle.

Does the Five Second rule apply if they drop it on the floor.

Absolutely not.

My organs are mine, until I’m dead. At which time they can be used for whatever someone needs.

Save it for a relative. Besides, mine insides are yellow green from drinking Mt. Dew.

I'm in between. It's way cool that he wants to help someone that way but as said earlier he's one wreck away from being the person he helped. I've known people with one kidney and they was normal in every way including drinking so I know living with one isn't a problem except there's no back-up.

Probably so he can brag on Facebook about it.

I saw a guy on reddit the other day who said he got $200k for donating his kidney on the black market. I might consider that, but I don't think I'd give one away just for fun.

That about sums it up for me. Wow.

I donated one of mine to a relative about 10 years ago. So far so good. Donating a kidney should not result in you taking any new meds. Donors are rigorously screened, and are generally more healthy than the average population. Long term studies show they do quite well

In regards to not having a backup this is true in terms of traumatic injuries, but most kidneys are lost due to medical reasons, and these conditions like diabetes and hypertension effect both kidneys, so they both fail.

Definitely not a decision to be taken lightly though.

That's only for the recipient.

The only organ I'm donating is the one between my legs and just for females on the donor waiting list.

Is it really a donation when you have to pay them to receive it?

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As someone in need of a kidney, that guy really is a hero.

If I could, I would. Maybe not without knowing what I know now, four years into dialysis.

Donating a kidney shouldn’t be any more eventful than a few days in the hospital and a couple weeks of R&R. No new meds, no changes in lifestyle.

For the person receiving it, it not only is a literal life saver, it gives them back their life. Being tethered to a machine is no way to live. I know.

Bravo, sir. Bravo.:clap:

My girlfriend donated one to her father. Quite the ordeal.

I NEVER pay women for sex. I pay them for the hotel room, the liquor from the minibar, their gas back and forth to meet me and their witty conversation. :D

Wow, I hope you get that kidney. :grovel:

I know this may be a stupid question but have you look at international options? Is it viable or allowed?

Short organ, short list. :D

"hooker and lots of ice"

I hate seeing a poll option go to waste.

Only one I'd donate is an ovary—perhaps even two. :harumph:

I offered a kidney to a friend a couple of years ago who had kidney cancer. He's a good sonnabitch of a human. He ended up being good with one of his own but I'd have done it for sure.

I think I would never do it because I have never had surgery and don't ****ing plan on it...especially voluntarily

Won't be long before a kidney can be grown in the lab and then transplanted.

https://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2...ini-kidney-lab

Alport Syndrome is a hereditary disease in my family from my mothers side. Its a kidney killer that is an X chromosome defect.

My grandfather, his brother, my mom, and 2 of my aunts have died form kidney disease and several cousins have had kidney transplants because of it.

Dude is a straight up hero.

I might be willing to let go of a slightly used testicle. Pretty sure I’m not going to release a kidney.

Truth.

I need BOTH my kidneys to filter beer.

I thought about you when I heard it. I wish I could've hooked you two up.

I wonder with this guy if he would have liked to give it to a particular person or not. It appears that he wasn't motivated by helping a particular individual, even though that's the obvious outcome.

I wondered too about the payment. He's going to have significant medical bills, so I'm presuming that some organization or some person paid them for him. Was it the recipient? Some nonprofit? And my impression is that he didn't sell the kidney, though I guess I don't know that.

They can do whatever they want after I'm dead but until then only way I would donate is for a family or extremely close friend.







Or for a seven figure deal.
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Recipients insurance usually covers all costs for the donor.

Yeah it may be real short but it's real thick! ROFLROFL

WOW :eek::eek::eek:

I hope it wasn't passed to the next generation

I'll give up a kidney for free the day the doctors transplant it for free.

Do you mean where it won't cost the donor any money to donate? Excellent, because it already doesn't. Medicare (ESRD is a qualifying factor) covers 100% of the cost for the donor. Recipient pays very little.

Hopefully it goes into a hot chick, and his dick is allowed visitation every other weekend.

I know your body will function just fine with one kidney. But man, I like having a reserve.
Family donation -Yes.
Close Friend-Yes
Just because-? Probably not

It has and will continue to be unfortunately, at least for a few more generations.

You can be a defect carrier and never get symptoms yourself (kidney disease) and then pass it on.


Since its an X chromosome defect and Girls = XX and Boys = XY, males always determine gender.

If you are female and are a carrier you have a 50% chance of passing it along to your offspring, it depends on which X chromosome you pass to your kid, the good one or the bad one. If you are male and are a carrier if you have a girl well, you passed it on since you only have one X chromosome to give.

My grandfather who died from it had 6 daughters so they all ended up with it either symptomatic or as a carrier. 3 daughters were symptomatic, 3 were just carriers. 2 of my aunts who were asymptomatic passed it on to their sons who developed Kidney disease and had transplants. That's shit luck. The 3 symptomatic daughters all died from it.

Fortunately for me and my 2 brothers it appears all 3 of us dodged the bullet with our mom not passing the defective X chromosome to any of us as far as we can tell. My daughter has been genetically tested and she isn't a carrier so no way am I a carrier. My brothers only have 1 boy between them so its possible they are carriers but neither are symptomatic and it usually manifests itself by your 20's if you will be. So they wont be passing it on fortunately.

No, that's not what I meant at all. The doctor's getting paid. The hospital's getting paid. Why shouldn't the donor get paid?

How very selfless of you.

How many kidneys have you donated?

Yeah, show me the final combined bill, then talk to me about selflessness.

I believe legalizing selling organs would become a bit of an ethically complicated mine field.

I did hear on a podcast a while back that one of the biggest markets for missing and exploited children in the middle east is the very rich sheikhs will pay people for these black market kids if they are a match to harvest their organs so their own sick children can get a transplant.

Disturbing to say the least.

Sounds like rich muslim scumbags doing rich muslim scumbag shit. Has little bearing the way things work here.

I just don't see any reason why the only person who doesn't reap a windfall here is the person giving up a vital organ. That's nuts.

They pay people for plasma donations.:shrug:


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Where is the money going to come from?

Same place the rest of it comes from.

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Knowing what I know now, with zero functioning kidneys and needing one so I don't hook up to a machine for 10 hours every night; tethered to within 12 feet of wherever I place my dialysis machine; losing any semblance of a social life, because in order to be at work at a reasonable hour, I have to hook up at 7:30 every night; visiting doctors every other week; the monthly blood work and quarterly urinalysis; the anxiety every time you get a cold, because those are some of the same symptoms of peritonitis, which could kill me; the periodic hospital visit just because shit's not working right, and multitude of other complications that come from losing kidney function; the hassle with any kind of overnight travel, including shipping or lugging 18L of dialysate solution for every night I'm gone, manual bags in case the machine breaks... I could go on.

I would if I could, BCT. I would if I could.

The donor doesn't pay a dollar.

They pay women to carry a child to term then hand it off.

(in my best Red voice) Dumbass!

If your wife needed a transplant and you were a match, would you donate?

I think that's not even relevant to the point he is making. Pretty sure everyone would.

Would you walk in to a hospital and just randomly donate a kidney to nobody in particular? Without compensation? Does it make you an asshole if you wouldn't? Does it make the Doctor an asshole since he didn't donate his time and expertise to do the procedure? Are the hospitals assholes for charging for tests and blood work and bed time, etc?

There is actually more to it than that as well.

A lot of the time when people are seeking a living donor, usually within the family but not always, they offer to recoup any income lost due to the procedure as the donor is going to miss many weeks of work as well.

Plasma is a renewable resource nor is it an organ, they have been paying people to do that forever.

You wont just grow another kidney.

Seems like it should be worth more then.

You can lose a lot of weight selling plasma.

It costs them nothing but a ****ING KIDNEY. If their other kidney later fails, do they get it back?

Yeah. But it would have to be somebody I cared about that much, and there aren't very many of them.

I wish you the best. Totally.

But the doctors and such are making a killing off of it. The recipient is possibly making a non killing off of it.


Why shouldn't the person who doenst have a dog in the fight not get something out of it? Especially since they might need a back up some day .

every day .

I would risk my life for her any time. Some random? Im on to try to help on anything that's doesn't include knowing im losing body parts before the war even starts

Selling becomes a bigger issue. There are places on this planet where selling organs is perfectly legal, and trafficking is a major problem.

Oh I understand. Totally.

But in your case I think it would help you tremendously

Is it legal to sell your own organs, those of a deceased person, or just random organs that you, um, find?

The second case is the most interesting to me. Is there a country where a relative dies and the family sells all of the organs as an inheritance? I'm genuinely curious.

I haven’t heard of that. More of a problem is people taking homeless people or people in dire straits financially and offering them a “cut” of the money they get.

I'll give one up for Richie Incognito if he'll play for us.

Thats an impressively dumb post no matter which angle you look at it.

I was wondering what happens if your kidney has stones in it?

Donors do not need to take medications after donating besides some possible pain meds immediately following. Recipients will need to but not donors.

https://www.kidneyregistry.org/livin...s.php?cookie=1

I think if I were ever to entertain the notion, I’d want a clause in the agreement: If the recipient’s body were to “reject” the kidney, I’d want the option to get it back at no cost. Call it a right of second refusal. I’d also want no-cost counseling for the kidney so it could learn strategies for coping with rejection.

So you know all about the medical condition of the co-worker of a guy on the internet that you don't know?

Got it.

:facepalm:

I wonder if that's even possible?

In the same vein, could the donor come back to you and get your other kidney if yours fails? Kinda like an organ lemon law?

ROFL

He's saying under normal circumstances. And he's right. If that other dude is on meds due to the donation, it's because of some kind of complication, which are pretty rare.

That's funny, I just checked for the words "under normal circumstances" in BigRichard's post, and sure enough, they weren't there.

Complications being "pretty rare" probably doesn't mean much to a guy suffering from life long complications.

I’m confident the need for the donor to be on life long meds is extremely rare.