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Farmer-Rick

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8. Was it a deceased donor?

Sat Sep 22, 2018, 07:35 PM

Sep 2018

He has signed up for all possible donations from the deceased donors list but there always seems to be someone else there with a higher priority than him. There was an O kidney from a poor soul who died of a drug overdose, from our local area...it was an O. It was offered to 3 people (2 people's doctors rejected it because it was such a high risk kidney) he wasn't even offered it.

Yeah, I know people who have gotten kidneys in months from the deceased donors list. He's just not a high priority, except to us. And I can understand why they would put a 20 year old ahead of him. It's just that there aren't enough for everyone. Thousands die every year waiting for a kidney.

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My uncle is blood type O and needs a kidney [View all] Farmer-Rick Sep 2018 OP

A K&R angstlessk Sep 2018 #1

Thanks Farmer-Rick Sep 2018 #2

Why don't you go thru a Kidney Exchange Program? donkeypoofed Sep 2018 #3

+1 GeorgeGist Sep 2018 #4

I don't see how that would work for an O blood type Farmer-Rick Sep 2018 #7

K&R for visibility. lunamagica Sep 2018 #5

I just read an article today re transplanted kidney from Hepatitis donor. No Vested Interest Sep 2018 #6

Was it a deceased donor? Farmer-Rick Sep 2018 #8

I don't recall reading either way, though I'm inclined to think is was from a deceased donor. No Vested Interest Sep 2018 #9