OT: #calebskidney
Good luck to your friend...and the donor.
Colin must be one helluva guy to do that! Hope all goes well for both
Live Stream?!
CIL?
Wait, I guess that's too expensive anymore. Dang.
Colin is a good man and great friend to Caleb then.
After everything involving Tuley-Tillman, I thought this was going to be Twitter nonsense involving Michigan State fans after Caleb Benenoch decommitted. Glad it wasn't. Good luck to both guys!
Good luck to your buddy and his friend! Hope all goes well.
I'll also add that I live in Houston, which is notorious for its medical field. There have been a few of these in the media lately, and they have each received great reviews and have been very successful.
Just my $0.02... I'm thinking it's a good sign they feel like making the procedure available live. Obviously we don't know any details, but I'm sure they feel very confident about what they are going to do if they are making this their first "broadcast."
Definitely a cool use of the social networking tools we have.
Give us an update.
What were the chances that one of his friends was a matching donor? Aren't the chances that any one person that isn't related a matching donor extremely low?
The odds are low, but the transplanted kidney doesn't have to have perfect HLA matching in order to be successful. As there are many times when a living unrelated friend wants to donate an organ but is not a good match, some centers will do more complicated swaps where one person donates to a stranger and that stranger's friend donates to the person's friend. It seems that was not necessary here and hopefully the kidney will last a long time!
Best wishes to those involved today and thanks to everyone who donates (or plans to donate) their organs.
Actually, not too hard to match. It really is about matching the blood type (A,B, or O). In cases where people have had several blood transfusions, or prior transplants, or occasionally when women have had children, the match can get a bit more tricky, but most times it is not that bad.
Bone marrow transplant on the other hand is where the match has to be much more precise and where it would be a stroke of luck to have a good friend match.
(sorry to preach, but I am a transplant nephrologist, and spend quite a bit of my time telling my patients that more than just their relatives can be their donors)
In any case, good luck to both the donor and recipient here
For my wife's brother, we were told a cadaver kidney is good for hopefully a decade. A live kidney from a good stranger match for up to 20 years. From my wife's kidney, they're hoping/planning on 25+.
My prayers go out to both of them. I hope everything goes well.
Best of luck to both parties involved.
I just wish I hadn't read this while trying to eat lunch. I'm a big wuss when it comes to surgical procedures, seeing, thinking about, hearing about, etc.
Good luck to them both, but afterwards, spend time with the friend who's donating. Your friend is going to feel like a million bucks almost instantly. The donating friend is going to feel like hell for months.
My wife donated a kidney to her brother. I was in taking care of her after the surgery, and it was the most pitiful thing. She was in severe pain, white as a sheet of paper, and said every inch of her body felt wrong. When I went down the hall to visit him, I wanted to beat the shit out of him. He weas smiling, alert, full of color, cracking jokes.