• Polar
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    1072 years ago

    I had a double lung transplant 6 years ago. You have to be EXTREMELY compliant to even get put on the list.

    So many meds and tests and shit stuff you need to follow EXACTLY, every 12 hours, every day, for the rest of your life.

    If you refuse a vaccine you’re never going to care for your new lungs. It’s not easy.

    • MapleEngineerOP
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      432 years ago

      Nope. That’s why the courts allow transplant coordinators to require that you be vaccinated. This vaccine was so incredibly safe that it’s ridiculous that she chose to die rather than getting it. I mean, literally the worst thing that could have happened to her because she got the vaccine happened to her because she didn’t get the vaccine.

      • Polar
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        352 years ago

        This vaccine was so incredibly safe that it’s ridiculous that she chose to die rather than getting it.

        Unlike the transplant meds. Pretty large increase for cancer from them.

        Seems weird to refuse a COVID vaccine, but be fine swallowing a ton of meds every 12 hours that increases your risk of cancer significantly.

        Obviously me and many others accept that increased risk, because like you said, the other outcome is just dying straight up.

        In the end I’m glad the organ went to someone else who will respect and appreciate it.

        • MapleEngineerOP
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          I have a background in chemistry. Early in the pandemic when all the anti-vax nonsense was at its peak I took a look at the ingredients in the three main vaccines in Canada (A-Z, M, and P). For the most part they all included:

          mRNA which we all have in our bodies all the time

          4 salts of which one was table salt

          4 fats of which one was cholesterol

          and sugar.

          That’s it.

    • @MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca
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      342 years ago

      Fact is, there’s more people in need of transplants and simply not enough viable organs to go around.

      I’m not going to fault the transplant committee for denying someone over a vaccine. Simply, why give this very finite and very precious resource to someone when they’re just going to go get themselves unalived over something as dumb as a 100% preventable disease or something just because they have a brain malfunction that makes them think vaccines are bad. Especially when so many other people are literally dying without the same organs, who are more than happy to follow doctors instructions to ensure they can live a long and prosperous life with the replacement they desperately need.

      It’s all rather silly.

      The thing that probably bothers me the most about organ transplants in general is that if cloning research and stem cell research was allowed to proceed properly, it’s entirely possible that science could find a way to grow you a replacement of your own organs… Apart from genetic problems causing organs to fail, it would almost completely eliminate the entire demand for organs. But no, some idiots don’t want cloning because it upsets their imaginary friend.

      On a related note, go fill out your donor card people. Even if you’re one of those “nobody will want my organs” type of people, do it anyways. The transplant people will figure out if your organs are viable when you no longer need them anymore. Let them figure that shit out for you. Just check the box to be a donor and don’t think about it any further.

      • Polar
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        222 years ago

        On a related note, go fill out your donor card people. Even if you’re one of those “nobody will want my organs” type of people, do it anyways. The transplant people will figure out if your organs are viable when you no longer need them anymore. Let them figure that shit out for you. Just check the box to be a donor and don’t think about it any further.

        and the stupid rumour about “the doctors will kill me to save 8 others” is bullshit. I am glad my donor signed. His wife said she didn’t want him to, but seeing me live because of his selflessness made her reconsider, and she tells everyone to be a donor.

        • @MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca
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          52 years ago

          That rumor flies in the face of the first rule doctors vow to uphold “do no harm”.

          IDK about you, but killing someone for their organs is pretty damn harmful for the individual “donating” their organs.

          It’s a different story if you’re braindead or hurt to the point of being capable of recovering at all, even with all of the modern science and medicine that is available.

    • Avid Amoeba
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      122 years ago

      How’s life as an immunocompromised person in the last few years?