I've had some awful things said to me about dialysis....but the winner of them all was from a man who I met while I was visiting an old friend in a nursing home. I had already been transplanted and had previously been in the hospital with rejection. This man was the roommate of the friend I was visiting. When he found out that I had received a kidney from a friend of mine, he insisted on telling me that I was bound to go straight to HELL because I had taken the soul of another person when I got her kidney. AND THEN....he proceeded to tell me that the friend who donated would never be able to make it to Heaven because she was "no longer complete." He said that even the process of dialyzing was a way for doctors to make more money and what I should've done was pray about it because God can fix all things!!! I've never been so insulted in my life!!!
I know polite society wouldn't condone this- but first I would have told him to stfu- then gf himself, then he was going to hell for being a pecker!! geeze!
Quote from: highlite36 on October 16, 2007, 01:19:44 PMI've had some awful things said to me about dialysis....but the winner of them all was from a man who I met while I was visiting an old friend in a nursing home. I had already been transplanted and had previously been in the hospital with rejection. This man was the roommate of the friend I was visiting. When he found out that I had received a kidney from a friend of mine, he insisted on telling me that I was bound to go straight to HELL because I had taken the soul of another person when I got her kidney. AND THEN....he proceeded to tell me that the friend who donated would never be able to make it to Heaven because she was "no longer complete." He said that even the process of dialyzing was a way for doctors to make more money and what I should've done was pray about it because God can fix all things!!! I've never been so insulted in my life!!!Oh geeeez..................LOLOLOL What a Fruit Loop!! I would have played with his head a little and told him every time he cut his toenails or cut his hair he wasn't a "complete" person and was going to hell too. I would have told him every time he farts that's his eternal soul leaving him or something just as stupid.Donna
Quote from: highlite36 on October 16, 2007, 01:19:44 PMI've had some awful things said to me about dialysis....but the winner of them all was from a man who I met while I was visiting an old friend in a nursing home. I had already been transplanted and had previously been in the hospital with rejection. This man was the roommate of the friend I was visiting. When he found out that I had received a kidney from a friend of mine, he insisted on telling me that I was bound to go straight to HELL because I had taken the soul of another person when I got her kidney. AND THEN....he proceeded to tell me that the friend who donated would never be able to make it to Heaven because she was "no longer complete." He said that even the process of dialyzing was a way for doctors to make more money and what I should've done was pray about it because God can fix all things!!! I've never been so insulted in my life!!!Wow...thats just total idiocy. That guy must not realize the concept of being buried or cremated, and the fact that you can't take anything with you.
I was at my nieces Baptism last weekend and sitting talking to some friends of my sister-in-laws. One of her friends husband decided to come and quiz me on my health. This man would be in his 50's and until this time I thought him to be intelligent. He has known from the start that I was on dialysis but had no clue about PD, so I tried to educate him. Hard task, some people have no clue about medical procedures. He went on with his verbal diarrhea about how I am too young for all this..... then he asked me if I never get offered a kidney how long was I expected to live? He assumed I was given a time frame of dying. What the? I said I had no plans to leaving the planet just yet. MORON
After parking in the disabled spot and putting my sign up, some woman had the gull to say to me with a look of disdain, "You don't look handicapped!" As if you can tell by looking!
This week I went to my Bunko group. One of my friends mentioned she had to re-new her drivers license here in California and she told us she decided against signing a donor card because she's afraid they will "jump the gun" and take organs prematurely. She said she can't figure out why anybody would want to sign a donor card. She knows I'm on a kidney donor transplant list. I just smiled and said,"I guess some people feel that way." How do you educate someone like that?
He's a jerk AND an idiot, though.