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Dialysis Discussion => Dialysis: Transplant Discussion => Topic started by: okarol on December 02, 2006, 01:26:35 PM

Title: Los Angeles man - kidney plea
Post by: okarol on December 02, 2006, 01:26:35 PM
Here's a local Los Angeles guy needing a kidney -
only been on dialysis a few months - http://cbs2.com/video/?id=29527@kcbs.dayport.com
- must be nice to have friends in the media!
Title: Re: Los Angeles man - kidney plea
Post by: angela515 on December 02, 2006, 02:10:30 PM
If I had the option of using the media, I would.... so I can't be mad at him. Hope it works out for him.  :2thumbsup;
Title: Re: Los Angeles man - kidney plea
Post by: Zach on December 02, 2006, 09:57:24 PM
It's every man, woman and child for themselves.    :'(
Title: Re: Los Angeles man - kidney plea
Post by: Rerun on December 02, 2006, 10:34:49 PM
Why did they say "dialysis is not a life long treatment for him"??  It is if that's all ya got!
Title: Re: Los Angeles man - kidney plea
Post by: Zach on December 03, 2006, 05:06:55 AM
Quote from: Rerun on December 02, 2006, 10:34:49 PM
Why did they say "dialysis is not a life long treatment for him"??  It is if that's all ya got!


Actually in the interview, the guy looking for the kidney donation said his doctors told him, "... you're not really a candidate for a life-long dialysis..."
Title: Re: Los Angeles man - kidney plea
Post by: BigSky on December 03, 2006, 10:23:38 AM
Quote from: Rerun on December 02, 2006, 10:34:49 PM
Why did they say "dialysis is not a life long treatment for him"??  It is if that's all ya got!


It is claimed the doctor said this to him, however I would like to know the reasoning  behind such a  statement also. ???
Title: Re: Los Angeles man - kidney plea
Post by: angela515 on December 03, 2006, 12:55:14 PM
I'm wondering what makes a person not a canidate for "life-long dialysis" but they are a canidate for transplant?
Title: Re: Los Angeles man - kidney plea
Post by: livecam on December 03, 2006, 12:56:59 PM
Sometimes television reporters get the facts mixed up because most of them are generalists and few are experts at anything.  Sometime the facts are exaggerated intentionally or not such as one site that claimed a dialysis patient would die after 5 days without treatment.    
Title: Re: Los Angeles man - kidney plea
Post by: jbeany on December 03, 2006, 01:05:42 PM
Huh - such a strange choice of words.  Are any of us really good candidates for "life-long dialysis"?  I've only run across a few people happy to join the party - and I've usually had reason to question their sanity.  How do you qualify for that election primary, anyhow? 

I'd like to be the first candidate in line for a cure, but I can't figure out where the line starts. . .
Title: Re: Los Angeles man - kidney plea
Post by: Zach on December 03, 2006, 02:49:58 PM
Maybe to make his "appeal" more appealing, he had to make it sound as if he has no choice ... he must have a transplant, so someone give it up.     :o