Posted on 08/09/2009 12:18:07 PM PDT by neverdem
A lot of wives have already taken their husband’s most valuable “organs”.
Why not? Mrs. Chandler and I already share a brain.
We have no shortage of kidneys. We have a lack of kidneys made available for transplant because thats what the government wants. The government doesn’t want to have everyone on the list getting a kidney because they’d run out of money for other things, important stuf like abortion and sex-change operations.
My wife told me I could agree with you. But she is holding out on her organs until I mow the lawn.
This is despicable at its core.
Who, besides leftists and zero (the uber-leftist) thinks like this about their loved ones??
Under the Obamacare there wil be plenty of oldr citizens dying , they can give their kidnys. Unfortunately under the Obama plan they wont pay for the operation.
Why? The actual study involved kidneys. The trade-off was a wasted donation due to rejection versus the time on one of the types of peritoneal dialysis or hemodialysis waiting for a matched donor.
Bet she got the ‘better half’..
:)
Well, don’t give my husband any ideas! After 36 years of wedded bliss, he might like to take some of my vital organs. LOL Actually at age 58 I still have 20-20 vision, they should put my eyes into someone who would love to see. Last night at the observatory the guide pointed to the sky, there was the Hubble Telescope passing right over us. We could see it with the naked eye, and I think I was the only adult there without glasses. My aunt had 20 20 vision at age 91, I guess it is in the DNA
They prefer to take the kidneys, for transplant, from young adult donor.
Well, look at it the other way around. It would be heartening to realize that if my wife suffers kidney failure, I could choose to donate a kidney and there would be an excellent chance it would work. If I suffered kidney failure instead, it would be up to my wife to choose whether or not to volunteer one of her kidneys — I would not pressure her.
They could’ve given me the money and I would have told them the same thing. Just yesterday I celebrated my second “kidneyversary” with my wife who gave me one on Aug, 8th 2007. What makes it even cooler is that we matched 6 of 6 antigens on the tissue type test (we really were made for each other).
The transplant also occured 5 days after our 11th wedding anniversary. Needless to say, I have had a great week!
Do you REALLY have to ask??? Do you honestly want your spouse to know that you only think of him/her as merely a bag of spare parts if you should need them?? Or your kids?? Do want to see if you can catch them licking their lips wondering how much they can sell your kidneys for?? Or a lung?
People who love each other don't wait to be asked if someone needs an organ to stay alive. But, the NYT, irresponsible leftist paper that it is, would have us think otherwise. THAT'S what I find so despicable.
Please see my post #14.
Silly.
This research, if valid, means that something biological happens in a marriage (shared micro-organisms and/or sexual intercourse resulting in a similar set of antibodies) that makes it more likely for a kidney to be transplantable between the parties than it would between strangers. Otherwise, a spouse and his or her doctor might not even think about it, believing that there has to be a close genetic fit.
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OK, picky point granted. Could complain about the ethics of the Korean experiment, but it would be worth trying to duplicate this in animals in independent experiments (among animals that mate for life then live closely together). DNA doesn’t change, but shared antibodies might have a say in the compatibility process.
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