If your dad didnt bother with you, then showed up 20 years later asking for a kidney for his child - would you say yes?

[hotmumshit]

Not a real scenario, watching eastenders, and have thought about being asked to donate something to an unknown sibling

I dunno, I dont know if I would 🤔

No

that's the screening process, not the donation.

US of A and Canada beg to differ - I just watched a horrid podcast about the US and their hospital 'donation teams'.....
Thank God for UK, thank God for the NHS and even thank God for the private sector nephrologists, for it was one of them who threw the evil plan of corrupt Nigerian minister to rob a poor Nigerian of a kidney (transplantation were to be in Wellington Hospital).

I was thinking Lost, Anthony Cooper reaching out to Locke for a kidney and then pissing off.

Absolutely not

I am close to 3 people who have received organ transplants and think donation is such an important thing. But in the scenario the OP has described, even I would struggle to say yes.

I’d absolutely do a live donation of a kidney to my loved ones. I think there’s also a scheme where a non-matching relative of someone waiting for a transplant can donate to a stranger and the patient can receive a donated from elsewhere. Like an organ swap, I guess. It’s hard to explain!

Maybe a blood draw is simplifying it. I think you have to take medicine a few days and then it’s just a blood donation. A friend did it and said it took about 5 hours.

I'd donate stem cells, but I'd do that for a stranger anyway and have been on the donor register since I was 18.

Kidney absolutely no way.

You are of course entitled to your feelings. I agreed to a medical post mortem for my late DH and it was hard but I did it for what they could find out to help others. After death (and I really think it would be properly certified in this country) I see me as spare parts and if they can save someone, great. I don't think though that most of mine would be much good to anyone now, but I carried a donor card from the age of 5 (and I did understand what it meant)

I cannot donate anything due to a blood transfusion I had.
I feel like going into the Blood Donations with a Brian Blessed Voice saying "What do you MEAN you won't accept my blood - it is quality" but obviously they have rules and thems the rules .

I used to donate blood back in the day

So can we say that's a "no" or d'you want a bit of time to think 😉

Nope!

😮