???!!! they just told me that if i am bipolar i can’t donate my kidney to my sister who will die without it in a couple years…. and i am just trying to get help for this and now i just want to go back to hiding it and deal with the pain of it without meds so i can help my sister…this seesm so unfair… i am penalized for getting help for this??? if i had not told them they would not have known… i am so angry i want to punch someone
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if they don't let me i will kill myself and then they will have no choice....
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who just told you that? i would think you would be an ideal donor for your sister, bipolar or not
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You could post a wanted ad on www.craigslist.org it worked for someone I saw on the news. You can work to get people to sign up to be tested to see if they are a match. Even if you can't give yours, you can make an effort to find a healty organ for her. Major surgery makes people suseptable to a depressive mode due to the strain on your body that will take you a year to recooperate from and the doctors know that such an invasive surgery could really harm you. Ethically, they have to protect the donor as much as they would like to heal your sister as soon as possible. Start your marketing campaign and you may find matches for others in need of a kidney donation, as well. http://www.kidney.org/transplantation/livingDonors/index.cfm
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te strain on me for being turned down and the trauma of having to care for my sister as she dies is worse... who do they think they are judging which is worse for me... my sister is older and no one is going to volunteer for her... i am the only option - the psychiatrist at the hospital told me... i feel so discriminated against... they will have to cut me and i have to heal physically... who do they think they are to say becasue i may and that is a huge "may" have to deal with more depression if i do it than if i do not...
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its not like Bi-polar is contagious. If it were me, id cut out my own d-a-m-n kidney and give it to them in a gift bag (dont actually do that)
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20000 people need kidneys and there are only 3000 cadavers and 2000 donros to cover that.... Sign a donar card people//// there is no need for me to be going through all this and look at how hard they are even making it for me... :( i am so miserable right now
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they should make it easier for me ... not harder... i need support not discouragment.
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Your sister knows how much you want to do this for her...stay positive for her. Another donor may be found. Don't give up hope.
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and i am angry as hell and i sure as heck know i can't show it or they will just say... "see... u can't handle it." even if i have a right to be mad... the discrimination is insane... not me.
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Bipolar is a disorder, not a disease. I dont know what kind of doctors your talking to. Did you check to make sure that their degrees are legit, and not from the UNIVERSITY OF CHUCK E. CHEEZE?
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you know... people saying "another donor may be found" just make me even more angry... as if this is a valid option (which absoltely does not exist by the way) but even if it could happen the fact that i am being discrimated against like this should make people angry... This is not right... it is evil.
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i am dealing with a huge famous medical transplant hospital
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which huge famous medical hospital?
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man i don't know is there anyone else in your family who could donate? i'm thinking about what i would do if i were in your shoes and i really don't know if i'd go ahead and lose a kidney i sure hope nobody in my family ever needs a donor maybe you could sign a liability waiver if you really want to do it
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i am going to work up and write my intellectual argument on this and when I am through they will not sare do this... but in the mean time I am sick and being made to deal with this on top of all my other crap... and like i need the extra stress.. it is as if they don't even know what is wrong with me - if they did they would not treat me like this... it is so painful - especially since i know they are wrong and now i have to do something about it... up against this whole institution and all those MD's and all... geesh... good thing a lot of us bipolars are also geniuses...LMAO!
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ooo - i like the liabilty waiver idea... but i bet they'd say i am too crazy to do that too... **** hypocrits... cut me open but won't let me cry about it.... geesh!
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when all else fails, BLAME HILLARY CLINTON!
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they have special new surgery called laproscopic surgery and healing is shorter now days...still tough - but sure not as tough as my life has been almost everyday anyway- also... if all the people who died untimely deaths were donors this would not be a problem.
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the medical evidence is that a donor has a longer life than a person who does not donate... donors tend to take better care of themselves... and the one kidney left grows to do the extra work. a donor's life is not shortened in anyway...the only long term effect is a scar
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Anon ... I think you had a very important point when you stated, "I feel I am being discriminated against". I think you should call your local ACLU office. This may be a case that should set a precedence. You make some very good points that deserve to be judged by our court system. I am a nurse. I understand and KNOW what you are saying, the medical community wants to make sure you are 'mentally and emotionally' fit to deal with the situation. I suggest you talk to those who are making the decision NOT to allow you to donate, tell them what you are thinking ... Talk to a sympathetic therapist ... and go get a malpractice attorney! Let them know they are causing you undue suffering and they are being negligent in denying your sister your kidney ... Let them KNOW you intention is litigation. They make take you more seriously. Talk to the malpractice attorney about the discrimination concept ... some attorney may want to jump on this case. Good luck.
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dont give up! if theres a will there is a way! good luck & have fate.....