They must hate those people along with Kathleen Sibelius. In 1984 they passed a law forbidding compensation for organ donations. In those days bone marrow was considered as an organ because of the difficulty of the procedure....in 1984! Since then bone marrow was taken off the list and people could donate and be paid. Lives were being saved. In 2009 a lawsuit challenged this law and the liberal 9th circuit court put the bone marrow back in with the organ list. Instead challenging this stupidity the White House and Justice Department ordered HHS to reclassify bone marrow as an organ again and avoid a conflict. So if you have leukemia or some other disorder and need marrow but can't find it... thank a democrat and be happy the cost of healthcare is being "lowered". Originally Posted by JD BarleycornFirst of all, WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?
They must hate those people along with Kathleen Sibelius. In 1984 they passed a law forbidding compensation for organ donations. In those days bone marrow was considered as an organ because of the difficulty of the procedure....in 1984! Since then bone marrow was taken off the list and people could donate and be paid. Lives were being saved. In 2009 a lawsuit challenged this law and the liberal 9th circuit court put the bone marrow back in with the organ list. Instead challenging this stupidity the White House and Justice Department ordered HHS to reclassify bone marrow as an organ again and avoid a conflict. So if you have leukemia or some other disorder and need marrow but can't find it... thank a democrat and be happy the cost of healthcare is being "lowered". Originally Posted by JD Barleycorn
They must hate those people along with Kathleen Sibelius. In 1984 they passed a law forbidding compensation for organ donations. In those days bone marrow was considered as an organ because of the difficulty of the procedure....in 1984! Since then bone marrow was taken off the list and people could donate and be paid. Lives were being saved. In 2009 a lawsuit challenged this law and the liberal 9th circuit court put the bone marrow back in with the organ list. Instead challenging this stupidity the White House and Justice Department ordered HHS to reclassify bone marrow as an organ again and avoid a conflict. So if you have leukemia or some other disorder and need marrow but can't find it... thank a democrat and be happy the cost of healthcare is being "lowered". Originally Posted by JD Barleycorn
Professor, your increasingly troll-like tendencies are on classic display here. Are you and Bimbino collaborating on how to best troll the board? Maybe it's a contest to see who can post up the stupidest shit? It's close, but you have pulled ahead with this one.
Truly, can you not find something in this administration that is more meritorious of a critical post than this ridiculous bullshit? Go fuck yourself, right after you mop the boys bathroom at the community college. Fucking chowderhead. Originally Posted by timpage
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/mar...arrow-20120328
LA Times
I have exactly two non-related 10 of 10 matches for my BMT that I have elected to not do. While BMTs are not nearly as dangerous as they were there is still many things that can go wrong before your new immune system is in place. First there is the disease that you are trying to rid your body of. The there is the chemo to kill your immune system. Hopefully you do not catch an type of infection, be it fungal viral or bacterial. If you survive that and your body does not reject the donor the next thing is Graft VS host disease which you want a very very small amount of as that is proof you have a new immune system BUT your new immune system may not like the fact that you are not the person that they resided in and can destroy your organs and you die.
I had zero related donors and I chose to not do it. Mine is a type of cancer that is controllable with a type of chemo that doesn't make you sick. There are still side effects but it keeps me in remission, so far. The first drug failed after 18 months.
One fear of donors is what will it cost and it is not cheap with all you have to do to donate. For many types of blood cancers the only hope, treatment, and possible cure is a stem cell transplant formerly known as a bone marrow transplant of BMT. Technically it is considered a bone marrow transplant but the actual process is more like donating blood. They do not drill into your bones to remove the marrow anymore. The give the donor a treatment that causes the donor to produce stem cells that are harvested much like taking platelets from the blood.
As you can see from the LA Time article that the Obama administration has been fighting to keep people from being compensated for donating their stem cells. The fact is there are very few 10 of 10 matches primarily because there are so few to match from and it is like finding a needle in a haystack. It is much easier if there are a lot of needles to in the stack.
If I am lucky, and I consider myself to be very lucky and blessed, the medicine will not destroy my liver and I can continue to live a normal life. Without the medicine or a successful transplant, I would have died about nine years ago. Had I had to have approval by a government bureaucracy I would also be dead. Originally Posted by The2Dogs