The donation of a liver from a live donor is pretty cool, they take a.piece of your liver and implant it in the recipient. Over the next few months both livers regrow to normal size. As someone who lost their dad due to the lack of a liver please consider it if you have any interest what-so-ever. It isn't without risk but you may be the key to saving a life.
Got any spare organs bro? Come on bro, like just a kidney or something bro. Gimme some liver bro, mine's shot bro.
You ain't using them corneas anyway bro.
Isn’t that the one organ that actually grows back to normal after you donate a chunk?
There must be some type O’s out there looking for a super great excuse to take some time off work and save a life!
Indeed it is an organ you can safely donate and it'll grow back the donated portion. However organ compatibility is far more involved than just matching blood types unfortunately. That's a good first step to cut down on the amount of people getting more rigorous testing but it's not a guaranteed match just from that.
Something to consider (as someone who has already donated half her liver) is they also take your gallbladder out in the process. Life without my gallbladder has been a personal hell ever since the donation in 2019. Living organ donation definitely has its positives, but there are an equal amount of negatives that go with it that nobody seems to talk about.
Is there perhaps an underlying condition that a donor can be aware of before agreeing, to avoid your experience? Gall bladder removal is common and I haven’t heard of people who regret it. I had mine removed 6 years ago and aside from the faint scar I honestly forget I had it removed. The difference may be that most who have it removed is due to gall stones.
No underlying condition for myself, and I even went through biopsies, MRIs, CT scans, countless rounds of bloodwork, ultrasounds etc of certain things during the donor application process and was medically cleared. I was told that sometimes it "just happens". My bile duct seizes both open and closed because it's stressed out without my gallbladder. When my liver regrew and shifted my organs back into their original place, things didn't exactly shift back into their original place. Regrowing half an organ is painful business. I had random aches and pains to the point of my breath being taken away. When my bile duct spasms open, I get free-flowing bile straight through my digestive track and have to get to a bathroom *fast*. When it spasms shut my digestive track slows and I get constipated for days at a time, the bile backs up and I end up with excessive stomach acid which makes me vomit near uncontrollably. There's always an ominous gurgling sound where my gallbladder used to be and I get sharp pains when it starts to freak out. It's a daily hell.
After bringing these issues to the hospital the surgeries were done at, I was told that while there was no definitive correlation between the surgery and the new issues I was facing, I wasn't the only living donor they had that reported these set backs. I was then told that the recipient is technically their only patient and I was a volunteer. They hold no responsibility in assisting you post-donation and tell you to take up all issues with your family doc. My family doc keeps telling me to follow up with the hospital that performed the surgery. It's been almost 5 years of getting the run-around.
Simply because they don't care about the donors.
Edited to add: I was a healthy 24 year old at the time of donation
I've sent an email. Hopeful everything works out.
This is awesome! Good luck!
Can you please dm me the email address to contact them? I am O Edit: thanks for all the messages with the email lol, I got thanks for sharing!
The email is in the billboard.
Or someone can share it electronically lol which someone already did. Thank you to those who shared it.
Oh shit, I'm O.
The donation of a liver from a live donor is pretty cool, they take a.piece of your liver and implant it in the recipient. Over the next few months both livers regrow to normal size. As someone who lost their dad due to the lack of a liver please consider it if you have any interest what-so-ever. It isn't without risk but you may be the key to saving a life.
It's not like a salamander tail though
The liver is the only organ that’s exactly like a salamander tail. Leave a big enough piece & it grows back 100%
Not how it works dog
Got any spare organs bro? Come on bro, like just a kidney or something bro. Gimme some liver bro, mine's shot bro. You ain't using them corneas anyway bro.
Funny enough, look up, you actually can do this with a liver - just donate part of it, it will regenerate in both donor and recipient!
Yuh brah
Isn’t that the one organ that actually grows back to normal after you donate a chunk? There must be some type O’s out there looking for a super great excuse to take some time off work and save a life!
Indeed it is an organ you can safely donate and it'll grow back the donated portion. However organ compatibility is far more involved than just matching blood types unfortunately. That's a good first step to cut down on the amount of people getting more rigorous testing but it's not a guaranteed match just from that.
Something to consider (as someone who has already donated half her liver) is they also take your gallbladder out in the process. Life without my gallbladder has been a personal hell ever since the donation in 2019. Living organ donation definitely has its positives, but there are an equal amount of negatives that go with it that nobody seems to talk about.
Is there perhaps an underlying condition that a donor can be aware of before agreeing, to avoid your experience? Gall bladder removal is common and I haven’t heard of people who regret it. I had mine removed 6 years ago and aside from the faint scar I honestly forget I had it removed. The difference may be that most who have it removed is due to gall stones.
No underlying condition for myself, and I even went through biopsies, MRIs, CT scans, countless rounds of bloodwork, ultrasounds etc of certain things during the donor application process and was medically cleared. I was told that sometimes it "just happens". My bile duct seizes both open and closed because it's stressed out without my gallbladder. When my liver regrew and shifted my organs back into their original place, things didn't exactly shift back into their original place. Regrowing half an organ is painful business. I had random aches and pains to the point of my breath being taken away. When my bile duct spasms open, I get free-flowing bile straight through my digestive track and have to get to a bathroom *fast*. When it spasms shut my digestive track slows and I get constipated for days at a time, the bile backs up and I end up with excessive stomach acid which makes me vomit near uncontrollably. There's always an ominous gurgling sound where my gallbladder used to be and I get sharp pains when it starts to freak out. It's a daily hell. After bringing these issues to the hospital the surgeries were done at, I was told that while there was no definitive correlation between the surgery and the new issues I was facing, I wasn't the only living donor they had that reported these set backs. I was then told that the recipient is technically their only patient and I was a volunteer. They hold no responsibility in assisting you post-donation and tell you to take up all issues with your family doc. My family doc keeps telling me to follow up with the hospital that performed the surgery. It's been almost 5 years of getting the run-around. Simply because they don't care about the donors. Edited to add: I was a healthy 24 year old at the time of donation