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DO NOT DONATE YOUR ORGANS!!!
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[quote:Kraut:MV8xOTEyMDczXzUwNzk2NTgwX0VFOTEwQjRE] Years ago someone very close to me was shot. He was in critical condition due to blood loss, but then stabilized. One of the bullets didn't exit, for some reason they didn't do the proper scan to see where it was. Once stabilized they told his family he would make it and to go home and rest and come back in the morning. They barely got home when they got the call that the bullet still in traveled to his brain. As soon as they arrived at the hospital they were told there was no hope, he will be brain dead, a vegetable, PS - can we have his organs. This was a Sunday night. Nobody suggested a specialist or second opinion, just take our word and give us his organs. After putting it to his mother like "He wouldn't want to be kept alive by machines, would he?" she agreed. Immediately the medication and process of trying to save his life stopped and medication to keep the organs going until they could "harvest" was started. Within an hour of this decision the organ procurement company was shooting off letters thanking the doctors for the referral. He was moved out of ICU and into a holding room to wait for the procedure to happen. On Monday his family was allowed into the room to say goodbye. On of them told me they were under the impression that he was dead and was surprised that he was alive looked a bit better than the day before. Something didn't feel right about the situation but he didn't know what. In the report one of the nurses reported to a doctor that she saw movement and heard sounds that made her feel he should be checked out and reassessed. The doctor told her that her mind was probably playing tricks on her and that he was no longer a patient of the hospital anyway, but of the procurement company. From the time the decision was made it was more than 24 hours before whoever came to do what they do. To top it off his mother got large bill for the blood that was given to him even though family members that regularly donated blood did so in his name, being told that if he ever needed blood there would be no charge. I have no idea what his outcome would have been. Nobody wanted to see him on a machine indefinitely but I think a few days to see what was really going on should be required. And opinions of multiple doctors. I don't think most people that sign up to be a donor upon death or that speak for a family member in dire condition know how this process really works. [/quote]
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I have heard many true stories of people who got in bad car accidents, and they are doing fine today.
Here is an example of why you shouldn't donate organs. They have to take your organs when you are still alive!!
Two young boys got in a bad car accident. The driver was dead and the passenger side guy was rushed to the hospital and the specialists said that there was so little brain activity (coma), that we'd like to take his organs.
The father of the boy said he'd like a second opinion. He got it from a regular family practitioner. The doctor recommended that he be put on life support. In a week the boy was out of his coma and was 98%fully recovered. Later the boy went to college and got a degree in accounting and is enjoying a full life. So THINK TWICE before you put ORGAN DONAR on your driver's license. Your just asking for them to kill you when you might just as well have a second chance!!!
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