I have a kidney donor!

[QUOTE=ukballer]Wonderful news! I hope everything is successful, and I hope you'll get the chance to meet the donor one day if that is your wish. :D[/QUOTE]

I want to find out the birthday of the donor. Then on that day, I will have about a 2 minute birthday celebration for the kidney with a cupcake or something, since that is about the ratio of me that will be having a birthday on that day. :D



..... oh, and I'd be very thankful as well. I can't offer him much, but I'd love to take him and his family out for dinner.

[QUOTE=OmniStrife]Good Luck...

I hope you get to play bball / trash talk on ISH for many more years bro.[/QUOTE]

I had actually just started playing basketball again this past week since my dialysis surgery. I'll have to put that back on hold so I don't mess up something before the surgery. The interesting part of playing basketball while on peritoneal dialysis is that I surprise the heck out of people because I don't look like I can ball at all (not that I'm great, but I'm a better defender than I am a scorer). I'm carrying about 2 liters of extra dialysis liquid in my peritoneal cavity at any given moment, so I have an artificially stretched out belly and then I have a foam pad that is about 1.5 inches thick over my belly, so I look like I can't move. However, I still have strong legs from my sprinting days. My endurance is currently very poor, so I usually guard the slower guys, but when there is a switch on a screen, I see the guards' eyes light up thinking they have a major mismatch but it is never the easy drive to the hoop that they think it will be.

I hope they legalize organ cloning.

[url]http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/01/05/us-future-survey-idUSTRE6044MW20100105[/url]

Why do you quote stuff with an off beat response?

Congrats man! and GL the rest of the way
I couldnt ask for a better way to break in my ISH account :cheers:

[QUOTE=Myth]As many of you know, I have been on the Oregon kidney transplant list for about 2 years. Today I got the phone call saying they have a live donor for me. To my shock, it was none of the people who called on my behalf, just some random stranger that wanted to help somebody out. I'm scheduled to have surgery on July 23rd, so my move to Cali will be somewhat delayed.[/QUOTE]
this is awesome news!

i have a sister-in-law who is an extremely bad diabetic and has kidney failure. she has started dialysis this year and her doctor has recommended her to be put on the list for a kidney. sad news is that she had gotten pregnant and lost her baby just last week. if u could, please PM me your situation. i would like to pass it along to her.

Congrats man!

[QUOTE=Lebron23]I hope they legalize organ cloning.

[url]http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/01/05/us-future-survey-idUSTRE6044MW20100105[/url][/QUOTE]

Wow is that even possible? would be great!

[QUOTE=jbot]this is awesome news!

i have a sister-in-law who is an extremely bad diabetic and has kidney failure. she has started dialysis this year and her doctor has recommended her to be put on the list for a kidney. sad news is that she had gotten pregnant and lost her baby just last week. if u could, please PM me your situation. i would like to pass it along to her.[/QUOTE]

If she is on dialysis, she should definitely be on a transplant list IMO. I was on a list way before I started my dialysis.

It's stuff like this that restores your faith in the human race despite all the shit that goes on.

That's great news man; hope all goes well.

How much is this going to cost?

Congrats, my friend.

congrats man...:cheers: ...hope the donor is not a raging alcoholic........:oldlol:


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Congratulations man. I am happy for you.

Congratulations :cheers:

Random stranger, huh? A good samaritan on ISH maybe? :eek:

Anyway, glad to hear it man. Read what you were going through earlier but never said anything to you. Wish I did, you PMed me some advice when I was going through some problems myself last year. Best of luck with the surgery, hope all goes well. :cheers:

Congrats brah