Dr. Phil

[Ohio Buckeye]

Tuesday's (1/22) show will have guests that have had kidney transplants or are
waiiting for a transplant.  A man named CoJo who had a transplant, will be on also.
Just wanted to pass along tis info.  Could be an interesting show.

[Romona]

Carol posted an article about this man a day or so ago.

[goofynina]

Thanks for the heads up OB, i will set my TiVo for sure  

[KT0930]

Damn, I missed this post and the show...TBS was showing both Bridget Jones movies today.

[George Jung]

Damn, I missed this post and the show...TBS was showing both Bridget Jones movies today.

Um, Katie....the show is this coming Tuesday.   

[petey]

Earth to KT0930...that new kidney obviously has your head in the clouds!!   

[kellyt]

Cojo is on the E Channel I think.  He does correspondent stuff like the Red Carpet events.  He's had three transplants, I believe.  That's if we're talking about the same person.  My DVR is set...            Can't say TIVO anymore.  sniff   I loved my TIVO   

[donnia]

Thanks for the heads up,  I'll set the DVR.

[KT0930]

  I saw "Today (1/22)" I realized late last night that 1/22 is Tuesday. Hopefully I'll be home in time...I have clinic that morning.

[Sluff]

Thanks for the heads up OB, i will set my TiVo for sure  

What, you are doing Tibo?? wtf?? good luck with that.

[angela515]

I will be watching that.

[Ohio Buckeye]

Did any of yu watch Dr. Phil? and what did you think about it?
I thought it was really intresting.  Glad Phil and Robin are organ donors now.

[LightLizard]

its not on here (vancouver island) for another two hours, but i do plan to watch it, even though i've heard that cojo guy is on and he is one of the most annoying people
in this galaxy...

[2_DallasCowboys]

I just watched the show with Les,
Cojo is annoying, teehee, but he did
give some excellant advice to another
guest, a young girl who had gotten
two transplants.  She seemed to have
the attitude that if this second one failed,
no biggie= she would just look to get a
third from her sis, who felt she did not take
as good care of herself as she should!
I thought it was a pretty good show, even tho
we are not Dr Phil fans here.

Anne

[LightLizard]

yeah, i know what you mean. he's so damn opinionated and know-it-all. like everybody that doesn't see things and live the way he does has something wrong with them.

its good that there is some exposure to the kidney issue though, but i seriously doubt that anything useful for any of us will come from it.

(man, i'm gettin this cynicism stuff down, hey?!)

love

LL

[goofynina]

I like Dr. Phil, he is very down to earth and tells you like it is.  He is pretty harsh at times but sometimes he has to be, some people he has on the show are just plain ignorant and stubborn.  I know so many people that could use a good dose of Dr. Phil 

[LightLizard]

i think he's a dickhead, but that's just my take. they have losers on the show because sane people don't need help and it doesn't sell.

i like jerry springer more. he's honest and non-judgemental and his show really tells us what humanity is all about.
 

[petey]

I was a little disappointed in Dr. Phil's show (and I usually like Dr. Phil).  The lady on there who had had two transplants and now wasn't taking care of herself (especially the meds part), I'm afraid, may shed a bad light on organ recipients.  Her attitude was, "If this one fails, someone else will give me a third transplant."  I hope the general public doesn't think that all recipients are this ungrateful and unappreciative and unconcerned.  Also, even though Dr. Phil did say he and Robin are now organ donors, I wish he had talked more about organ donation and the great need for more donors.  Having CoJo on there with his taking-care-of-myself and changed-my-lifestyle attitude was good, but I wish Dr. Phil had also included a "real" (common, ordinary) recipient who is doing the same.  I think there are many more recipients out there who are doing all they can to hang on to their transplant than there are ones like this chick.  I wish Dr. Phil had accentuated the positive, compliant recipients rather than this lady -- she kind of made us look bad.

[jbeany]

I watched a couple of minutes of it - just enough to see CoJo go off on his rant at the little ditz who didn't seem to care about taking care of her kidney.  I didn't think I could stomach much of her "I'm entitled to as many as I need" attitude, so I shut it off.

[paris]

Any thing that helps put donation in the news is good news.   I liked the show and I thought Dr. Phil did a good job at the end with the donation thing.  I believe he will have more in the future with the woman that he talked to on the phone who is waiting for a transplant.  He said they would follow her progress.    We seem to complain when no one talks about donation and then complain when there is something, but not quite what we think is the right amount.   

The show is on at 9am and 10 minutes into the show, the station broke in and spent the next 50 minutes talking about the tiny bit of moisture that was freezing on the overpasses.  Yes, in the south, everything stops when the temps dip below 32degrees!   So, I called the station to see if they were going to replay the show.  They said no, but she could connect me with some Director of something.  So I left a voice mail explaining how important shows like this were to the renal community and all those waiting for transplants and would they please consider airing it at another time.  I got a call a couple of hours later telling me it would be on at 5 on the Fox station, so I got to watch in today afterall. 

And AlohaBeth bought me Cojo's book tonight! I am looking forward to reading it.

[LightLizard]

well, i was as disappointed as i expected to be. nice for cojo, to have tons of money and friends with the same, but i don't think the show did a good job of representing the average kidney patient at all. the impression was that a transplant is a cure and everything is fine and rosy after you get one.
we can't expect much more from television, i guess...

[paris]

OK LL-- you have shown us your sweet side, now we expect it to come out a little more often! We know your the cynic---that is your role here and we love you for it!!   Cojo did explain that the meds are what keeps him living and how he changed his life because he valued this kidney so much.  He said dialysis was hell and couldn't believe that girl would forget to take her anti-rejections meds.  He said things with a smile, but you could tell how he felt about the subject.  Now, my husband, on the other hand said the guy gave him the willies and couldn't watch him!!  As I said earlier, we complain when nothing is done; we complain when something is done, but  not the way we want it done.    Any job done is better than no job done.      Now I am going to listen to another song of yours to remind me of the gentle soul inside your cynical exterior   Love ya!

[Joe Paul]

What would anyone expect if it had to do with "Dr. Phil" 

[MyssAnne]

I'm not too surprised, disappointed, but not surprised. So who could portray us well, and realistically?  There's been talk of trying to get on Oprah and have a voice there.  Could she do a better job?

[KT0930]

I missed it. Clinic ran late, then we had errands to run, darnit! I'll see if it's posted on the web anywhere.