<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type">
<title></title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">
Pat Kraut wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid003801c739f7$4a3c0020$65acfea9@d5b8c8" type="cite">
<title></title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1">
<meta content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1515" name="GENERATOR">
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">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. </font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">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. </font></div>
</blockquote>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
Paul<br>
</body>
</html>