A fellow VietNam vet that I sometimes worked with handed me a gold coin. He said twenty-five years(?)clean and sober??? Then he asked if I would introduce him to a trainee that worked for me. He said it was obvious to him the young man had a problem.
And I knew this to be true. he was a very sharp, personable, and gifted athlete. and he would wreck a car about every six months. On one occasion he came in a bit disheveled (unusual), he had an odd chemical odor and his speech was not right. He told me he accidentally did some large amount of cocaine the night before! I sent him to an out of the way desk near friends; he was much better in a few hours.
I introduced him... they would occasionally meet for lunch...
Recently a mutual friend ran into him, he said to tell me he was doing well!
Redemption.
Find it odd though that a former drug addict or even alcoholic would be permitted to do a kidney organ donation.
Yes,people who are leading a self destructive...or even depraved...lives can find a better way.Sadly it doesn’t seem to happen too often but it clearly did with this woman.
I’m not an expert on kidney transplant rules, but it seems strange that this cop would be able to jump to the head of the kidney line. So effectively this kidney donation was as if it came from a relative. The cop is a lucky bastard. From the looks of him, I don’t think he could have survived the 7-8 year waiting period enduring the hell of dialysis.
The one grim skill I’ve developed over the past 10 years is to tell who will survive dialysis and who won’t. I’m not always right in my assessments, but I’d guess that I can call it 80-90% of the time.
Anyhow that woman is a saint for giving up a kidney.
The Lord works in mysterious but wonderful ways.
He gave her her life back and she gave him his. Cool story.