Are you an organ donor?

**James Deuce** · 24th February 2007, 14:32

Nope.

Transplant technology doesn't work, the only transplant not likely to kill you instantly if you forget one pill in 30 every morning is a cornea transplant.

8% of people who have a GA die. A %age of transplant patients die with in hours or during the precedure. Few make it past 5 years. Pointless torture foisted on people because doctors like to experiment on humans.

Organs cloned from your own DNA and someone else's stem cells is a much better application of technology, but the biggest hot bed of testing and research in that area is currently in hiatus thanks to Christians who would prefer that people suffer the torture of surgery, the torment of a daily drugs regimen, and the prospect of sudden death, or excrutiating death from infection or spontaneous organ failure.

Thanks George Bush.

And to the medical profession. No you may not use my organs to torture people.

**Karma** · 24th February 2007, 14:33

I'd donate organs, but apparently because i'm English they're too good for you kiwis, something about accents, my kidney can't understand your colon or something...

That and the mad cow disease....

**Meekey_Mouse** · 24th February 2007, 14:36

Originally Posted by Mrs Kendog

Yep I ticked the donor box and must inform the loved ones to let them have whatever they want should it be of any use. I tried several times to give blood, but I tend to start to faint after about a test tube of blood has been pumped out, Would be great blood for anemic people though as it is very iron rich apparently!

Haha, yeah... I'm the same. I would like to give blood, but I faint and feel all dizzy/tired for the rest of the day, so I don't give blood.

I am a donor, but it freaks me out for the same reasons as a few others have said... waking up on the table when they are cutting you up and or feeling it after you are dead. Silly, I know... but hey

that's me

**McJim** · 24th February 2007, 14:43

I can't give blood coz I might be a mad cow....20 or so people diagnosed with CJD in 10 years so all the poms and returning kiwis can't contribute - no wonder there's a shortage due to paranoia.

**Curious_AJ** · 24th February 2007, 15:06

i CAN donate blood but i dont think i actually could... just this thing about my bodily life fluids getting let out... no thanks... had some taken for about 12 tests once.. and no.. i dont think i could ever get it done again...

**Trudes** · 24th February 2007, 15:11

I have to have my iron levels tested once a year and if they get too high I'll have to go in to have a pint (I think it was) taken once a month

, hoping that doesn't happen, I could be doing a lot of fainting! I had my blood taken on Monday and came up with this really huge ugly bruise from it (my hubby does this

every time I show him, so I keep showing him it

)

.

**Curious_AJ** · 24th February 2007, 15:15

haha, awesome! grossing people out is fun... i have really low iron, its just over the "TOO LOW" line... people force me to take iron supplements.. have tried for a week and i havnt taken a single one yet.. mwahahaha!! ^_^ not that i need higher levels or anything.

**The Stranger:Me** · 24th February 2007, 15:31

Originally Posted by Mrs Kendog

I have to have my iron levels tested once a year and if they get too high I'll have to go in to have a pint (I think it was) taken once a month

Haemochromatosis?

**Trudes** · 24th February 2007, 15:54

Originally Posted by The Stranger

Haemochromatosis?

That's the one!

**Karma** · 24th February 2007, 16:01

Originally Posted by The Stranger

Haemochromatosis?

Bless you.

**The Stranger:Me** · 24th February 2007, 16:14

Originally Posted by Curious_AJ

haha, awesome! grossing people out is fun... i have really low iron, its just over the "TOO LOW" line... people force me to take iron supplements.. have tried for a week and i havnt taken a single one yet.. mwahahaha!! ^_^ not that i need higher levels or anything.

Ok, this is going back a while, so I can't say I am still 100% accurate, but - if you have low blood iron you should eliminate Haemochromatosis before you take any iron supplements. Haemochromatosis causes Iron to be stored in the liver and can destroy the liver.
You may present with low blood iron levels (common in women due to menstruation) however you may have excessive iron in your liver due to Haemochromatosis (again more common in women). The iron you do take will overload the liver and leave the blood iron levels low.
Don't rely on your doctor - they have been instrumental in causing big problems here due to ignorance.
It was said that the defect that causes Haemochromatosis is the most common disorder in the human genome, so it is more common than what you may think.

**The Stranger:Me** · 24th February 2007, 16:17

Originally Posted by Mrs Kendog

That's the one!

Yes, not many conditions they still treat by blood letting.

**Trudes** · 24th February 2007, 16:20

Several of my family have it also, and due to not being diagnosed until after I was and then being tested, they have developed illnesses that could have possibly been avoided. It runs in families and apparantly is more harmful to males as they don't have a monthly blood letting session to release some of the built up iron, pays to get tested.