Posted on 04/22/2024 1:34:16 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Former Knicks guard Nate Robinson made a sobering admission that he doesn’t have long to live if he can’t find a new kidney. Robinson, 39, revealed in October 2022 he was undergoing treatment for renal kidney failure, which he had been dealing with for four years.
“I know that I don’t have long if I can’t get a kidney,” Robinson, a Knicks fan favorite, told the Daily Mail. “I know I’m not going to have long to live. So I just want to make the best of it as much as I can.
“Some people’s body reject dialysis. And thank God that mine accepts it and I can live … if I didn’t go to dialysis, I wouldn’t live probably longer than a week or two. So it’s serious, can’t miss a day. I go in for four hours, three days a week, four hours a day. And they clean my blood to get my toxins out. And they help me out a lot because that’s how I’m living.”
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After watching the video of a doctor explaining what happens during organ donation, I took my name off the list.
And in some cases they have tried to charge the donor for the cost. Hospitals will go after anybody they can to make a buck.
Do tell.
That’s with “cadaver” donors, allegedly brain dead.
But living people can also donate a kidney.
It’s sad that there is no one around him willing and able to give up a kidney.
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