Medicine

I’m not talking crazy nor am I talking figuratively. I’m asking for a Kidney this christmas for My Hubby.

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I don’t talk about the hubby much, because he is so private. there is alot going on at my home right now in many ways. deaths, problems, issues with health and of course living with hubbys’ renal failure. His doctors have given him a no-go on a transplant. this is in essence a death sentence. a very slow and painful death sentence.

this is not a choice you get to make, when you need an organ; it’s a choice made for you by doctors, nurses and a committee.

yes a committee decides if you are worthy of receiving even a cadaver kidney..

this is ludicrous to me, because if I am willing to donate a kidney to be a part of a transplant chain, surely they can put it together. but alas that’s not how it works; if you are not a millionaire.
 

that’s why that mass transplant was such a christmas miracle for each of the donors and recipients. I pray for them all and ask you to think about your loved ones this year. you never know what could be just around the corner for you, health wise.
 

I received this via email and had to share it.

I have an earache:

2000 B.C. – Here, eat this root.
1000 A.D. – That root is heathen. Here, say this prayer.
1850 A.D. – That prayer is superstition. Here, drink this potion.
1940 A.D. – That potion is snake oil. Here, swallow this pill.
1985 A.D. – That pill is ineffective. Here, take this antibiotic.
2000 A.D. – That antibiotic is artificial. Here, eat this root.

I made this fatal mistake a couple of years ago. Just a little check up to put my mind at rest from the trauma of turning fifty. So guess what? I think one or two more visits and we will be on a first name basis.

But there is a bright side. Apart from the increased health insurance premiums and non-covered ancillary costs that always seem to change every time I look at my policy. (This DOES prove that insurance companies can actually travel through time and change what you thought you signed and agreed to two years earlier, but that is a digression and a subject for another day.) The real bright side is that I now have the reassurance of knowing exactly what I don’t have. No progress on what I do have, but that seems to be for another day also.

I was so excited today to find out that I really don’t have bone cancer, leukemia, pancreas cancer or liver disease. All this wonderful reassurance came about because I had a sore rib after vacuuming the car, and my doctor was very thorough.