[Vision2020] [Bulk] Re: [Bulk] Re: "Which Way To The Egress?" Barak Obama

[Paul Rumelhart]

Pat Kraut wrote:

> I have said this before but you may be new enough that you didn't see 
> it and it is too important for you to not know.
> I have two sons with failed kidneys. We have done the transplant 
> dialysis since 1985 it is expensive, painful and more of a heartache 
> than you want to think about. For someone to give their organs they 
> must let their family know they really want to give it isn't enough to 
> put it on your drivers license. AND that is because of tort claims in 
> this country. The hospitals are afraid they will be sued and Edwards 
> is an attorney who has done just that. He got a big award for 
> something that is very questionable. Waiting for a transplant is 
> horrible. It is watching your child, parent, loved one of any relation 
> slowly sinking and in pain. Organ doation is the greatest gift any one 
> can give. BUT, less and less people do it because of fear. And for me 
> that is Edwards legacy.


Thank you.  I must have missed this when you talked about it earlier.  I 
can sympathize, because my mother had a kidney transplant.  She was 
extremely lucky, because they found a donor just three days before she 
was scheduled for her first dialysis treatment.  She also got sick not 
long afterwards, and was in the hospital for 50 days that were 
touch-and-go.  Thankfully, she survived it.

I plan on looking into this when I get around to researching Edwards.  I 
feel for your sons and yourself and the rest of the family, and hope 
that donors are found soon.

Paul
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