Comments on: my amazing body

By: Shelley Park

Shelley Park — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:15:15 +0000

Before you donate a kidney, make sure you have 2. At the age of 35, David found out he only had one. Crazy, huh?

By: Nate

Nate — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 05:00:58 +0000

I applaud your decision and am glad to see you advocating for organ donation in a public way. Organ harvesting is still one of those taboo topics and the more we talk about it, especially with our loved ones who will make decisions on our behalf, the more comfortable it will become.

By: Katie

Katie — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 02:58:56 +0000

So if you Google “hypostatic crisis” in quotation marks, this blog post is the only thing on the entire Internet that comes up. That is so cool!

By: What a Perspective! « U.S. Health Care Forum

What a Perspective! « U.S. Health Care Forum — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:45:34 +0000

[...] a community must take care of its weakest. This debate has taken an interesting twist in several comments and posts of friends of mine regarding organ donation. Organ donation (especially while alive and for a [...]

By: greeneyes

greeneyes — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 04:11:03 +0000

I think you are AWESOME , I may just get my nerve up

By: JTB

JTB — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:08:30 +0000

After an unfortunate event officially labeled “hypostatic crisis” after my last blood donation, the Red Cross respectfully requested that I never come back. I still regret it, as there’s nothing wrong with my blood and I am quite stoic about needles–really an ideal donor, except for the whole fainting/seizures/hospitalization thing.

More seriously, I love this perspective on the human body. Too often we assume our bodies are the things that mark off our individual selves from other people–the barriers that divide us. Human beings are social creatures, and we depend on each other for survival, even when we think we don’t. Sharing the life-giving properties of your body is the ultimate way of affirming that personhood is not just individual but communal…

(And in an entirely different direction, this same perspective is what moves me to be interested in new ways that we can extend this kind of life-giving…)

By: Sue Young

Sue Young — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 12:39:44 +0000

I too have thought alot about it over the last few weeks. I am happy to report that when I lost my wallet and had to get a replacement ID I checked off that I would like to become a donor. I have to speak to my family to let them know that I’ve made this decision. I saw a show on Oprah about it and one life gave life to several, heart lungs, kidneys, eyes (to two people), it’s amazing that through death other can live.

By: Vicki

Vicki — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 03:55:39 +0000

Excellent, Laura.

My hubby is the donor go-to guy at our hospital. He is the one who has the task of approaching family immediately after a loved ones death to ask those hard questions. (required by law to ask) He used to donate blood, but now takes dilantin for a seizure disorder, so they don’t want it anymore. I have HepC. Nobody wants anything I have…

Donating a kidney is a very big deal. I am far more selfish than you and, if I were able to donate at all, would want to save it in case someone in my own family needed it. (They might need it, but they won’t want it! cooties…) You inspire me to stretch myself on a regular basis.