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« on: April 15, 2008, 10:18:49 AM »
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« Reply #1 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
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« Reply #2 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.
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Jenna is our daughter, bad bladder damaged her kidneys.
Was on in-center hemodialysis 2003-2007.
7 yr transplant lost due to rejection.
She did PD Sept. 2013 - July 2017
Found a swap living donor using social media, friends, family.
New kidney in a paired donation swap July 26, 2017.
Her story ---> https://www.facebook.com/WantedKidneyDonor
Please watch her video: http://youtu.be/D9ZuVJ_s80Y
Living Donors Rock! http://www.livingdonorsonline.org -
News video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-7KvgQDWpU
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« Reply #3 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.
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« Reply #4 on: June 25, 2008, 03:33:33 PM »
so where do I go to make an offer on that house               am willing to relocate
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« Reply #5 on: June 25, 2008, 03:51:17 PM »
a little weird...
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« Reply #6 on: June 25, 2008, 04:02:16 PM »
actually, I find the cartoon very depressing
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« Reply #7 on: June 25, 2008, 04:15:51 PM »
oh twirl, hope you know that I meant the cartoon...  I find it depressing too.
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« Reply #8 on: June 25, 2008, 04:37:37 PM »
I know you were referring to the cartoon :waving;
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« Reply #9 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
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« Reply #10 on: June 25, 2008, 04:41:56 PM »
 :rofl;
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Jenna is our daughter, bad bladder damaged her kidneys.
Was on in-center hemodialysis 2003-2007.
7 yr transplant lost due to rejection.
She did PD Sept. 2013 - July 2017
Found a swap living donor using social media, friends, family.
New kidney in a paired donation swap July 26, 2017.
Her story ---> https://www.facebook.com/WantedKidneyDonor
Please watch her video: http://youtu.be/D9ZuVJ_s80Y
Living Donors Rock! http://www.livingdonorsonline.org -
News video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-7KvgQDWpU
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« Reply #11 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. 
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