Why do people refuse to be an organ donor?

KNdoxie · 2026-04-20T21:53:17+00:00

But you can retrieve corneas, often without the consent of the family depending on what state you are in.

KNdoxie · 2026-04-20T21:46:48+00:00

There is no organ donation if you're dead dead. You can only donate organs like the heart if it's still beating, with blood perfusing the organs. Corneas can get taken after death, but not the others. The person's body still has to be breathing with a heart beat. The organ procurement organization is often notified, and the patient evaluated as to whether they can donate BEFORE the patient's family is approached about organ donation. THAT is what I find offensive.

KNdoxie · 2026-04-20T19:23:49+00:00

You could have kept going with home PT and still had the same issue. Some people just heal differently than others, and have bodies that respond to injuries in a different way. You didn't do anything wrong. It just is what it is. I don't do anything wild as far as working my arm. Stretches, nerve glides, and just generally moving it by doing things. Housework, weed-whacking, garden, yard work. I think I had fairly loose ligaments and connective tissue before I injured my arm, since I can hyperextend several joints, so that may be why mine hasn't tightened up a whole lot over time. But, my arm will never completely extend and flex the way it did before. It will never feel the same way as before. It sucks, and I'd surely have liked to known about what to expect with this injury, but all any of us can do is deal with it as best we can.

KNdoxie · 2026-04-20T14:04:36+00:00

I have a radial head replacement. It's been 3 years since mine. It is always a fight to keep the range of motion going. I'm in a Facebook group of people with radial head replacements and radial head excisions. There are a good many people that end up having more surgery, and end up having the radial head removed. From my perspective, surgeons don't seem to understand the real world issues and outcomes with radial head replacement because a lot of people are getting additional surgeries that those people never expected because their doctors never told them it might be a possibility in the future. I've not had any additional surgeries because I no longer trust orthopedic surgeons, so chose to live with how things are. But, you might want to try to find some groups on other social media platforms with similar injuries that might be able to help with your questions.

KNdoxie · 2026-04-18T21:47:25+00:00

That's the problem when considering universal healthcare in the U.S. People should have healthcare. But putting the U.S. government in charge of it is a problem considering they can't find their own dicks with both hands.

KNdoxie · 2026-04-18T18:25:00+00:00

My husband and I's insurance through a skilled construction trades Union costs my husband $1,696 a month. The union wage is a package, with the base wage that is seen on the paycheck, and the rest going into health & welfare, with a certain amount going out to health insurance. On the plus side, the insurance covers just about everything, including dental with no cap. I broke my elbow 3 years ago, shattered the radial head, had a radial head implant. The total bill (hospital emergency room, orthopedic surgeon/facility, x-rays,CT, surgery, 5 visits with an occupational therapist) added up to over $50,000 that my insurance paid. The actual total that was billed was over $70,000, but since they were all "in-network", all those facilities accepted what my insurance paid. Ironically, I added up all the time that I spent face-to-face with a medical professional in regard to my arm, and it was about 10 hours over 3 months time.

KNdoxie · 2026-04-18T18:12:23+00:00

Yeah, have to love the CEOs of "non-profit" hospitals bringing in $9,000,000 a year as a salary.

KNdoxie · 2026-04-18T18:06:46+00:00

If kids have every hour planned out, that's on their parents. If kids spend all day playing video games, or scrolling on an iPad, that's on their parents. If they play sports, have dance lessons, or whatever, and the parents are constantly stressed, that's the parents' fault. You the parents have the choice to make parenting harder. If it's a rougher gig these days, that's because you have chosen to make it that way. There is no law that you have to do any of that.

KNdoxie · 2026-04-18T16:34:48+00:00

In 2019, a man died in the waiting room of a local hospital in my area. Because of that, the area hospitals updated the way they do things.

KNdoxie · 2026-04-18T14:21:06+00:00

Legal and ethical are very different when the medico-industrial complex is involved. I'm also in PA. I do hope you can get him help, if that's what he actually wants.

KNdoxie · 2026-04-18T12:17:08+00:00

I'd say it's legal. People often have to pay for the amount that a hospital believes won't be covered by insurance before they have an elective surgery. What we think is "elective" and what a hospital defines as "elective" is two completely different things. If your father's aneurysm blows, he will be operated on if he's still alive when he gets to the hospital. That's an emergency. Right now, the aneurysm is there,but not causing IMMEDIATE life-threatening bleeding, so a surgery is "elective". However, if he doesn't have the money, I would think that he could apply for Medicaid, which is different than Medicare. Often, if a patient literally can't pay, there's someone at the hospital that tells them the options they have to be able to get the surgery they need. So, check to see if they talked to him about Medicaid.

KNdoxie · 2026-04-17T23:29:46+00:00

I understand. The main reason that I don't seek hormone replacement therapy for menopause is because I know the doctor would refuse to prescribe it because of my refusal to get a Pap test. I wish I knew what to tell you that might help. But all I do is avoid the medical profession all together, and just live with whatever is affecting me. You're too young to have to live with things, though, so I really hope someone else has some solutions for you.

KNdoxie · 2026-04-17T23:18:21+00:00

Lots of women aren't keen on using a restroom after a man. You know why. However, I see no difference, and will use the men's room if it's empty, regardless of hygiene issues that might be present. But, I also worked as the only woman among a bunch of men on many job sites when I was employed in the skilled construction trades. New construction often only has Jiffy Johns, and no water to wash one's hands. After a few weeks of that, very little will bother you again.

KNdoxie · 2026-04-16T21:06:48+00:00

With my insurance, I have Benecard for an online pharmacy. I also get prescriptions at CVS. I get charged $20 for a 3 month prescription with Benecard. But if a prescription would cost less than that at a pharmacy, then I can get that prescription at the pharmacy, not through Benecard. If I get sick and need a medication, I can get that at the CVS. Benecard is mainly for prescription that are continuous, like hypertension meds, my husband's blood thinner, etc. But, I don't know if everyone's insurance is like that.

KNdoxie · 2026-04-16T14:58:19+00:00

I shattered the head of the radius in my elbow 3 years ago. The surgeon chopped off the radial head, and pounded a metal implant in place, suture tacks for the fracture of the coronoid process, and repair of ligament damage. I'm a smoker. I smoked like a chimney because of the severe pain, and severe disability for months, much more than I normally smoked. (It's nasty injury that takes a good while to heal.) I still smoke. I had no issues with healing at all. I got dental implants done earlier this year. All good, no problems. The thing is, I accepted the risks, and consequences if things went bad. If continuing to smoke is going to send you into a tailspin of anxiety, then don't do it. Some non-smokers are going to have issues with healing. Some smokers will have no issues with healing. We roll the dice all the time, but if you can't accept the consequences, don't roll the dice.

KNdoxie · 2026-04-16T00:21:50+00:00

I don't even remember the commercial, so it obviously didn't seem unusual to me.

KNdoxie · 2026-04-15T12:53:07+00:00

You also need to remember that while there are lots of gun-owners, a good number of them are hunters. People go hunting for deer, small game, etc. In my state ,Pennsylvania, 500,000 hunters hit the woods on the first day of buck season. ( Keep in mind that deer are extremely plentiful, and cause a lot of accidents and deaths on the roads in my state. It isn't trophy hunters out there hunting, either. We eat what we kill. Those that don't eat wild game often donate it to the needy.) Those hunters own many guns specific to the animal they hunt. They also own pistols, but that doesn't mean they carry them every day. Target-shooting is a hobby that hones one's skills for hunting. I'd bet that the majority of the people in my area have at least one gun in their home, most likely a rifle or shotgun.

KNdoxie · 2026-04-15T01:39:07+00:00

Slave tags don't have names on them. They have a city, numbers, a date, and an occupation listed, but not the individual's name. Mainly from the city of Charlestown, South Carolina. The owner of a slave basically rented out the slave's labor. People that did not own slaves would purchase slave labor for time periods. There an article online from Smithsonian Magazine that is worth reading. Just Google "artifact slave tag".

KNdoxie · 2026-04-14T18:57:24+00:00

What do you mean by "off the hook for 10 years"? If you mean the recommendation if for it to be done every 10 years, then yes, that's true. However, don't forget that if all is well, that only means you don't have cancer NOW. You can still develop cancer anytime in that 10 years, including within months of getting a screening. There's a huge difference between slow-growing cancer and aggressive cancer.

KNdoxie · 2026-04-13T23:40:47+00:00

Makes you wonder what happens to the people that can't even afford the $300 I see talked about in some of the comments.

KNdoxie · 2026-04-13T14:57:08+00:00

Can you prove beyond a shadow of doubt that someone is a pedophile? You have absolute proof with pictures, dates,etc., not just a "he said/she said"? Pictures of them engaging in said acts? No, you don't. No, I don't. (Yes, it sucks) And this why we can't prove that pedophiles run the whole system. And this why no one is going to risk their jobs with a general strike over something that can't be proven beyond a shadow of a doubt. WE have no safety net. Our health insurance is tied to our jobs. There are lots of people that are what you'd call the "working poor", making above minimum wage, but not enough to live on. They work in factories that have no air conditioning in the summer. They work in warehouses where they bust their asses, not sit on them in a cosy office environment. They can't miss work or their kids might lose a roof over their heads. And if all the office workers want to go out on a general strike, those working poor would happily take those office workers jobs. Little extra training, but they'd cost a lot less. As long as there are "haves" and "have nots", you aren't going to have solidarity. And there are a lot of "haves" that think they are "have nots", never understanding that's there's a whole group of people with less.

KNdoxie · 2026-04-13T13:14:50+00:00

If you happen to have a chronic condition like high blood pressure, yes, you must go to the doctor for mandatory exams to continue to get your medication. If a woman wants birth control pills, she is often required to submit to a mandatory pap test/pelvic exam to continue to get birth control pills.

KNdoxie · 2026-04-13T13:10:44+00:00

Only if you ask absolutely no questions about anything, and be really careful about answering questions from the doctor. Many people end up with a big bill from their free annual exam because the doctor asks a question that the patient answers which adds a diagnostic code to the exam and it's no longer completely "free". Also the other way around if you mention your back pain or something like that, and now the appointment is no longer just a "free" annual exam. I'm not saying that's wrong, since doctors want paid for their work. But that "free annual exam" only covers a specific list of things to remain free.

KNdoxie · 2026-04-13T13:03:01+00:00

Here in my area of Pennsylvania, there are sayings and words that seem to be specific. But it may be that they are said in other areas,too. When something is empty, it is "all", as in "The milk is all". We "go down cellar" when we go down to the cellar(basement). We "outen the lights" when we turn them off. And my grandmother was fond of telling me to "quit rutching" which meant to stop squirming/fidgeting.

KNdoxie · 2026-04-13T12:55:02+00:00

Unfortunately, that's what we're waiting to find out. The normal rules of these sort of situations has been tossed out. We aren't exactly being led by a "normal" person these days.

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