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Post by No Screen Name on Mar 6, 2008 16:44:31 GMT -5
I am. But some people refuse to do so, because they say if they are in a bad car accident, the doctors might "let them die" if they see that on their driver's license so that they can harvest their organs.
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Post by Sista08 on Mar 6, 2008 17:04:53 GMT -5
I used to do health education. Doctors will not let you die just because youre an organ donor. If you are really worried about the license thing there are tons of places where you can add your name to the official registry without carrying anything identifiable. That way your wishes will still be carried out in the event of your death.
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Post by Bigs on Mar 6, 2008 17:08:08 GMT -5
Please, if you can, become an organ donor. My father died while waiting on a lung transplant. (and no he was not a smoker)
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Post by Sista08 on Mar 6, 2008 17:14:41 GMT -5
Sorry to hear that Bigs.
Im my previous line of work I was able to meet many people on the waiting list.
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Post by DamieQue™ on Mar 6, 2008 17:23:18 GMT -5
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Post by Bunny Hop on Mar 6, 2008 18:03:36 GMT -5
my mom thinks it's a conspiracy too. I believed it at first and then I grew up, lol. I have yet to change it on my license though. That's the last thing I'm thinking about when I'm getting a new license
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Post by Sista08 on Mar 6, 2008 18:14:55 GMT -5
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Post by Worthy Most Ancient Matron on Mar 6, 2008 18:16:49 GMT -5
Yes
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Post by MochaD on Mar 6, 2008 19:58:34 GMT -5
Sure am!
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Post by Cambist on Mar 6, 2008 23:45:58 GMT -5
<<== organ donor
<<== bone marrow donor
<<== sperm donor
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Post by Nupey on Mar 7, 2008 8:40:58 GMT -5
I'm an organ donor.
I was in a Terrible car accident 5 years ago. I had a lacerated pancreas and spleen, and had a crushed knee and hip, and broken ankle and ribs. The doctors game me a 1/10 chance of living because of the lacerated pancreas (which if you didnt know is one of the MOST delicate organs in the human body)...They gave my parents an option of surgery which 1 out of 10 people LIVE from, or pull the plug. My parents opted surgery of course and the doctors proceeded.
If THEY wanted to let me go just for my organs, they WOULD'VE and COULD'VE then....but they didnt', and I'm still here today....
<----Thanks God
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Post by DamieQue™ on Mar 7, 2008 9:34:47 GMT -5
Wow... you should consider yourself blessed everyday you wake up. How long did it take you to recover from all that? I know the PT (Physical Therapy) was probably a MONSTER.
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Post by Nupey on Mar 7, 2008 9:44:14 GMT -5
Man it was a beast! I was in the hospital for a total of 3 months, and when I finally got out, I had forgotten how to walk....
Man its crazy when you got to walk on the "old people" walker because your body doesnt remember and isn't STRONG enough (thanks to me losing 40lbs).
I couldn't eat because they had to pump my stomach of the pancreatic acid, so they fed me through a tube....
I had to give my self a shot in my OWN stomach everyday. It was blood thinner
But the physical therapy, had me in tears....
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Post by DamieQue™ on Mar 7, 2008 9:50:20 GMT -5
Do you even remember the accident happening or just waking up afterwards?
I remember when I broke my leg (actually I hyper-extended my knee to the point where it broke) and so I was on crutches for like 2 or 3 months. That first night the leg throbbed in pain... I took enough Vicodin to pass out twice and I could STILL feel the pain.
For the 2 months that I couldn't put any pressure on that foot, it swoll up where I almost couldn't get my shoe on. I didn't realize that the act of walking was part of circulating your fluids. Anyway, when I went to PT to get the range of motion back in my knee - I literally used to DREAD going to the building cause I knew it was going to be non-stop unadulterated pain. It took me a month just to get my knee where I could bend it slightly past 90 degrees.
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Post by Nupey on Mar 7, 2008 9:58:13 GMT -5
Man all I remember is right before I hit the Tree....then I woke up a week later, with tubes in my body...I didnt know what the heck happened, I had JUST turned 19 at the time, and when i say I cried....!!! Man I cried like a little girl....
But I feel you on the PT, My girl is working on her PA and right now working as an assitant in a physical therapy center, and the stories she comes home with is horrendous....
People dont know man...they dont KNOW!!!
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Post by DamieQue™ on Mar 7, 2008 10:06:31 GMT -5
I remember when I first heard of Physical Therapy... I thought it was something all pleasant and what not where they used medicines to help you rehabilitate.
No such thing.
Just pain. Pain. And more pain. And you know you gotta do it... but damn... when I would get in my car to go home, I would have to actually sit there a couple of minutes and gather myself. In many ways it used to feel like the PT was worse than the actual injury just in terms of duration.
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Post by Nupey on Mar 7, 2008 10:08:33 GMT -5
Dang man...I never actually just "Broke a bone" while conscious like you did,when I woke up, It was ALREADY broken...But what was it like to SEE your leg breaking?
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Post by DamieQue™ on Mar 7, 2008 10:13:19 GMT -5
I didn't see it break... there were no protruding bones, I just felt it and went down in a pile immediately. And for the first minute and 30 seconds before the Endorphins kicked in... I could barely even breathe.
People were trying to ask me questions and all I could do is tell them to "shut up" - cause I just couldn't even think to answer. I just wanted the pain to stop. After about 5 minutes, my boys helped carry me to a car and I went to the hospsital. It was bad... but not as bad as waking up a week later. Dude you are blessed to be alive.
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Post by QueenOH on Mar 7, 2008 10:51:37 GMT -5
I'm an organ donor. I always think that if I die I'm not gonna use them anymore so why not.
Some people in my family believe that they should leave this world with everything they came into it wit
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Post by Prissy New Year!!! on Mar 7, 2008 11:28:54 GMT -5
I am an organ donor. For years I was on the fence as to whether I should do it or not, until my brother needed a kidney and pancreas transplant. When I found his kidney was failing, I was on the first plane to go and get tested to see if I was a match.
They found a donor a week before he was scheduled to start dialysis. It is sad because it was a young woman who died in a car accident. But her death saved my brothers life. I feel like I owe that to someone else if something should happen to me.
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Post by CrimsonENDvy on Mar 12, 2008 11:04:34 GMT -5
I actually have no idea whether I'm an organ donor or not. I looked on my license and it didn't say  How do you know? |
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Post by Sista08 on Mar 12, 2008 15:08:54 GMT -5
go to the site I listed above. They will give you the methods of registering for each state. That way if there is a registry you can be added if you arent already.
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Post by androidque on Mar 13, 2008 11:40:16 GMT -5
<==== proud organ donor
my pops tried to scare me out of it when i was younger by telling me that they will cut my body up into little pieces. I'm dead. Why would i give a shit what they do to my body?
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Post by Robelite on Mar 19, 2008 11:39:06 GMT -5
I'm an organ donor. I'll get some NEW organs over in glory. I won't need these old things.  |
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Post by Cambist on Mar 19, 2008 12:34:26 GMT -5
LOL @ Robe saying "Over in Glory"...you KNOW he's from the South! LOL!!
Only thing that would have made it better would be you saying that they will come on "That Great Gettin' Up Mo'nin"
LOL!!
I am an organ donor. I am also a marrow donor.
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Post by Puzzler on Mar 19, 2008 13:47:55 GMT -5
I need to sign up to become one. They already took my gall bladder, they might as well put the other stuff to use. LOL!
However I am a bone marrow donor...I haven't been called yet, but I'm here for them.
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Post by Nupey on Mar 19, 2008 13:49:33 GMT -5
LOL @ Robe saying "Over in Glory"...you KNOW he's from the South! LOL!! Only thing that would have made it better would be you saying that they will come on "That Great Gettin' Up Mo'nin" LOL!! I am an organ donor. I am also a marrow donor. |
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Post by Robelite on Mar 19, 2008 13:50:47 GMT -5
LOL @ Robe saying "Over in Glory"...you KNOW he's from the South! LOL!! Only thing that would have made it better would be you saying that they will come on "That Great Gettin' Up Mo'nin" LOL!! I am an organ donor. I am also a marrow donor. I got a new home, o'er in Glory! And in a dat great gettin' up mornin', I'll see my sav'yuh's face! |
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Post by Mrs. Eyes on Mar 20, 2008 15:28:43 GMT -5
I am and a bone marrow donor.
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Post by No Screen Name on Mar 20, 2008 15:56:24 GMT -5
Um, Robe...the correct pronunciation is "mernin'".
And you call yourself a Southerner.
*Sniffs and leaves post*
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