You gotta be kidneying me
I know what you bean.
(sorry I have a cold)
What the fuck
If I have any take-aways from nursing school, it’s that kidneys are fucking bullies. Your kidneys will demand blood even if it means starving your brain; kidneys above all else. Selfish bastards
Before dialysis, poor kidney perfusion meant immediate AKI and thus death, so I get it.
every once in awhile I remember I have internal organs and it gives me the ick
Have you noticed you suddenly can’t find a comfortable spot for your tongue? And how much effort it takes to keep you jaw shut?
Also, you’re now blinking and breathing manually.
I’ve been a stoner for years, you’re not going to get me with those
Easy there, Satan.
Oh, that’s nothing. Your ears are now ringing.
Always.
I will remove you from the face of the Earth
Fr, the worst is skull awareness when you raise your lip. I am this flesh? This physical mediocrity? It cannot be
Sometimes I wish that I didn’t have a corporeal body. It would be better to just be a mind.
The brain doesn’t do so well in isolation of stimulus for a long period of time.
Maybe if you imagined then being played angrily by tiny little opera phantoms it would help.
I like to imagine my insides are a swamp and I need to drink water to keep the frogs healthy
Donate them and no more ick
there was a Law & Order Criminal Intent episode about that
Better than external ones, I suppose.
Yup, it blew my mind when I first learned about it.
Back in high school, I did a kind of medical jobs class that supposedly prepped us for entry into medical training, to help decide if or was right for us, and which fields we might go into. There was more than that, but that was the basic idea.
The last year of the class was going out and playing tag-along on various jobs. Nursing, radiology, pathology, dentistry, whatever.
One of the things we got to go to was a transplant unit. Finding out that kidneys (usually) stay in was kinda crazy because the obvious thing is that they’re diseased, maybe dying, so why would you leave them in, wouldn’t that cause trouble down the road?
Blew all our little minds lol
Afaik it’s a situation where the less things you have to do the better, even if the only benifit is shortening the length of surgery by minute or more, it’s probably saving lives leaving it in as a protocol.
Pretty much, that’s the explanation given back then.
Iirc it was phrased more that the risks of complications from removing the less healthy ones and all the blood supply issues that go with that complicat e the surgery in both time and possible unwanted outcomes. So damn near exactly what you said :)
There’s times it has to be done, but to the best of my knowledge, the majority of cases, the kidneys aren’t doing anything bad, they’re just not working right.
“And such plentiful organs!”
I AM ZIM!
Came here to post this and you beat me by 8 hours.
Where do u find these cursed facts, they enlighten my day
I am a wiki-phile.
Thanks, you just reminded me to subscribe to
https://lemmy.world/c/wikipedia
So many quality rabbit-holes!
Ok that was awesome just subscribed …no sarcasm.
Yes, it’s so intriguing. Set a timer, if you want to avoid a whole day timesink. :D
Thank you for the link I have just been going random on wiki but this seems alot better.
Hey, op! I just wanted to thank you again for your contributions. You’ve cleaned up your posts a lot better, and I’m glad to see how much more traction they’ve been getting. Nicely done!
can i get an internet hug now? lol
There goes my plan to eat mine
Just tell them you have the fava beans and Chianti ready.
Bonus kidneys?
Transplant patient here! Started with my 2 and then got 2 more added in my mid 30s. Later they took 1 of the transplanted ones out because it was clotting.
Score so far:
- 2 original kidneys that have basically been so damaged that they provide no filtering.
- 1 working transplant that is doing all the work and being a champ!
Do you think you’ll get a real life achievement if you can collect them all?
Kidneymon is what I’m calling this concept
🎵I want to beat dialysis
But one kidney’s not enough
Forget about the waitlist
And collect them just because 🎵
Kidneymon!
How am I supposed to lose weight if you keep shoving more parts in me?
Hold a sec while I insert this hyperactive thyroid. …just one more transplant…
The operation to place a new kidney takes about 3-4 hours. The donated kidney is placed into your lower abdomen (belly area), where it’s easiest to connect it to your important blood vessels and bladder. You may be surprised to learn that your own kidneys generally aren’t taken out when you get a transplant. The surgeon leaves them where they are unless there is a medical reason to remove them
Fucking wild.
In a lot of cases the bad kidneys still do some work, even if not enough ok their own that you might as well get the benefit. And removing them adds risk.
I figured that was the case.
