I've done 3+ gallons in my life, but now that I'm on thinners they don't want my blood. I'm still registered for kidney, etc. and my license says I'm a donor.
Yep, there is also the matter of cutting short on life saving care so they can go straight to keeping the person barely alive, just long enough to part em out. As much as I want to register, there is just about every incentive to NOT register.
Partial asshole or does the organ the asshole donates takes over the body and they become another complete asshole? This could lead to an asshole apocalypse? Or not.
I have to deal with the body snatchers at work. They're aggressive and awful and guilt the grief stricken families into agreeing. They parse sentences like a Clinton, and we're no longer permitted to refer to organ 'harvest.' Instead it's organ 'recovery,' like the patient was keeping it from them or something. And they take up a fuckton of time with screening phone calls, time that I don't have. When my aids patient died of it, I still had to spend an eternity on the phone answering questions while they insisted he was still a viable candidate. And, we're required to provide relatives' phone numbers to them, while we're forbidden to give said relatives a heads up as to the nature of the intrusion. It's big business disguised as altruism. I despise them. ER nurse.
I Was registered as a donor. My doctor told me to let it lapse and don't do that again. Too much incentive for the hospital to let you die. It's kinda like making a neighbor who hates you the beneficiary of your MILLYUN Dawlur life insurance policy. You think he's running to your rescue when you're croaking out Help me I've fallen and I can't get up?
It's the era of interchangeable body parts but we can't seem to get the medical establishment to "allow" us readily available, inexpensive life saving medicines that you can buy for your horse for about the same price as a fancy latte.
Is he contageous? There is always the woodchipper........
ReplyDeleteMan, oh man - that IS an amazing commercial!!
ReplyDeleteAnd THAT is why I'm registered , and why I donate blood regularly.
ReplyDeleteRetRsvMike
I've done 3+ gallons in my life, but now that I'm on thinners they don't want my blood.
DeleteI'm still registered for kidney, etc. and my license says I'm a donor.
god, I needed a good laugh today ! thanks so much. and I still think he is and was a asshole. but he did have some good bits.
ReplyDeleteTried to put it on my Farcebook page. Some assholes flagged it as abusive. Need to find the source.
ReplyDeleteFacebook doesn’t like The Feral Irishman. Oh well.
DeleteHere is a link to the video on a Facebook posting.
https://fb.watch/9Pi2UT82z0/
Thanks.
DeleteYep, there is also the matter of cutting short on life saving care so they can go straight to keeping the person barely alive, just long enough to part em out. As much as I want to register, there is just about every incentive to NOT register.
ReplyDelete-arc
...as I'm getting towards the end I'm thinking (...and everyone that got his donated organs turned into asshole)
ReplyDeleteYah, I know, I'm an asshole too sometimes. ;-))
Nemo
I have read that after transplant, sudden cravings for food the old owner liked are not uncommon. You may be closer to the truth than you know.
DeletePartial asshole or does the organ the asshole donates takes over the body and they become another complete asshole?
DeleteThis could lead to an asshole apocalypse?
Or not.
Absolutely brilliant commercial. It uses humor to broach a very sensitive subject.
ReplyDeleteI have to deal with the body snatchers at work. They're aggressive and awful and guilt the grief stricken families into agreeing. They parse sentences like a Clinton, and we're no longer permitted to refer to organ 'harvest.' Instead it's organ 'recovery,' like the patient was keeping it from them or something. And they take up a fuckton of time with screening phone calls, time that I don't have. When my aids patient died of it, I still had to spend an eternity on the phone answering questions while they insisted he was still a viable candidate. And, we're required to provide relatives' phone numbers to them, while we're forbidden to give said relatives a heads up as to the nature of the intrusion. It's big business disguised as altruism. I despise them.
ReplyDeleteER nurse.
This is illuminating.
DeleteEnlightening indeed. Thank you for posting Jen. I'll pass your experiences along.
DeleteCan I have his truck?
ReplyDeleteLeigh
Whitehall, NY
of course, pick it up next week
DeleteMark
Hilarity.
ReplyDeleteI Was registered as a donor. My doctor told me to let it lapse and don't do that again. Too much incentive for the hospital to let you die. It's kinda like making a neighbor who hates you the beneficiary of your MILLYUN Dawlur life insurance policy. You think he's running to your rescue when you're croaking out
ReplyDeleteHelp me I've fallen and I can't get up?
It's the era of interchangeable body parts but we can't seem to get the medical establishment to "allow" us readily available, inexpensive life saving medicines that you can buy for your horse for about the same price as a fancy latte.
ReplyDeleteWhen my time comes I'd rather be coyote food.
I'm surprised that all of those organ recipients didn't turn into assholes like Coleman.
ReplyDeleteSweeney ha I like that name.
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