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Did you know that being even mildly hypertensive is kind of a dealbreaker when it comes to being a kidney donor?
Well, it is, apparently.
Shouldn’t have come as a surprise, I guess.
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And that’s sadly ominous.
Not ominous, really; just a tad disappointing. Greg is being evaluated prior to being put on a kidney recipient waiting list. I’d hoped to be able to give him one of mine, but my hypertension makes takes that option off the table. Some clinics are a little less strict about it, but Greg’s isn’t.
In a sense nothing’s lost, really, but to quote Bruce Willis from the original Die Hard, I feel like shit anyway.
Still ominous since obviously Greg needs that kidney. One does not take in a transplanted organ for the hell of it.
I’m sorry about both ends of the sucky news…his need and your inability to give.