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Dialysis Discussion => Dialysis: Humor, Pictures, Stories and Poems => Topic started by: okarol on April 15, 2008, 10:18:49 AM

Title: From The New Yorker
Post by: okarol on April 15, 2008, 10:18:49 AM

 :o

Title: Re: From The New Yorker
Post by: glitter on April 15, 2008, 11:14:24 AM

while this might have been funny to me given the housing market-now that my husband needs a kidney- it isn't so funny. Maybe I am just losing my sense of humor

Title: Re: From The New Yorker
Post by: okarol on April 15, 2008, 11:18:16 AM

Quote from: glitter on April 15, 2008, 11:14:24 AM

while this might have been funny to me given the housing market-now that my husband needs a kidney- it isn't so funny. Maybe I am just losing my sense of humor

No. I felt the same way. I don't think people realize the impact of giving/receiving a kidney - it's just become a cliche.

Title: Re: From The New Yorker
Post by: monrein on April 15, 2008, 11:32:11 AM

As a kid my mother used to say "I'd give my eyeteeth for....whatever",  and we've all heard that something can cost "an arm and a leg".  I dunno maybe we can wish/hope that if giving up a kidney becomes associated with people's desperation to do or to get something then society at large will start to grasp how desperate we feel to receive one.  I can understand that a person might hesitate to be a living donor but the reluctance to part with usable organs once we're dead is totally beyond me.
OK so would it be coercion if a CKD person made a house purchase conditional on the throwing in of a kidney?  Just wondering.

Title: Re: From The New Yorker
Post by: twirl on June 25, 2008, 03:33:33 PM

so where do I go to make an offer on that house               am willing to relocate

Title: Re: From The New Yorker
Post by: pelagia on June 25, 2008, 03:51:17 PM

a little weird...

Title: Re: From The New Yorker
Post by: twirl on June 25, 2008, 04:02:16 PM

actually, I find the cartoon very depressing

Title: Re: From The New Yorker
Post by: pelagia on June 25, 2008, 04:15:51 PM

oh twirl, hope you know that I meant the cartoon...  I find it depressing too.

Title: Re: From The New Yorker
Post by: twirl on June 25, 2008, 04:37:37 PM

I know you were referring to the cartoon :waving;

Title: Re: From The New Yorker
Post by: twirl on June 25, 2008, 04:41:09 PM

 I have a twin sister with two good kidneys and she will not give me one
maybe I should make an offer on her condo

Title: Re: From The New Yorker
Post by: okarol on June 25, 2008, 04:41:56 PM

 :rofl;

Title: Re: From The New Yorker
Post by: pelagia on June 25, 2008, 05:13:38 PM

Quote from: twirl on June 25, 2008, 04:41:09 PM

 I have a twin sister with two good kidneys and she will not give me one
maybe I should make an offer on her condo

How incredibly difficult that must be for you.