New comic! (link)I hope this kind of communicates how intense this process was. Everyone was really
New comic! (link)I hope this kind of communicates how intense this process was. Everyone was really nice! Their sole focus was to make sure that I wouldn’t be unnecessarily harmed. The living-donor program doesn’t make any sense if it just creates 2 long-term high-resource patients. So there was a lot of tests, blood draws, scans, all of that.But they also needed to know that I wasn’t being coerced or doing this out of an inaccurate sense of what it would be like, so there were a lot of sessions of just explaining what would happen, how much pain I could expect, my short and long term recovery.And then they also needed to know that it wouldn’t ruin my life – that it wouldn’t trigger mental health problems that could increase my risk of suicide, that I had supports in my family and community who could look after me while I was sick, that I wouldn’t lose my job.None of this was certain, of course. I could have had an adverse reaction to any part of the surgery and ended up needing a liver myself. But the whole screening process had to confirm that I was as low risk as I could be.But maaaaan it kind of sucked sometimes. It was basically a whole summer of performing this sort of patient, reasonable, good natured, thoughtful, and, yes, sane person (though I hate the term) who just really wants them to remove a third of a vital body organ. -- source link
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