Kidney roadshow

[Wat_Tyler]

Somebody had a very bad Monday night/Tuesday morning, and s/he donated some internal organs. Wat got a call on Tuesday afternoon, late, to go pick up a pair of kidneys to tender to the airport to go out Wednesday morning, first thing.


Trick is, to do that, you have to tender said "cargo", regardless if it's baby birds or Eyegore harvestings, on the night before if you really want it to be ready to get on the plane. This is your TSA at work. Kidney bombs and the like, you see. This was not acceptable to the customer, a shipping company. And the hospital in Atlanta wanted the left one for transplant. So . . . driving it was suggested. And approved, in spite of the gouging extra cost - Capitalism at work, you see. So, Wat got voted to drive it down, seeing as Wat was the only one standing there. I dropped the right kidney off at our office - an acceptable storage place, oddly enough - gassed the car and headed south. Five hundred miles in one clip, drop a kidney to an OR, and drive back. A 22-hour-work shift and awake for 36 hours straight, minus 45 minutes of very short nap time.


So one person ended 2014 quite cold and dead and cleaned out of reuseable body parts. And some person 500 miles away begins 2015 with a better functioning blood filtration system. And it's nice being able to e a very small part of this something which wasn't even possible a couple/three decades ago.


Happy New Year - or Happy Thursday, whichever works for you.

 

[butters]

you're a good man, wat

moving story.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

They pay me for it, Butters. It's a job, too. Thank you noetheless


I could have wussed out, I s'pose.


But then they might not have called me back for their nexy one.


Any time I am hauling one of those things, I always wonder what tey fetch on the Black Market.

 

[warrior queen]

Regardless of the fact that you get paid to do this.....
How unbelievably awesome that you helped someone begin their life in 2015!

You are starting your New Year the right way, and I hope the rest of it is incredible for you...

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Thank you, ma'am.


I am more of the thinking that every day is a new years day of a sort. Especially if we make it as such.


So, Happy Thursday, too.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

And . . .


they called with a load of surgical stuff and implants that need to go out for tonight/tomorrow.


I hope the fun never stops.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

And . . . cancelled.


This shit happens sometimes, too.

 

[Bidin~Time]

Your new year is starting out busy busy busy.

I have a nephew on the transplant list. Is it selfish to hope you make a trip my way soon?


HNY, Wattage

 

[Laurel]

Somebody had a very bad Monday night/Tuesday morning, and s/he donated some internal organs. Wat got a call on Tuesday afternoon, late, to go pick up a pair of kidneys to tender to the airport to go out Wednesday morning, first thing.


Trick is, to do that, you have to tender said "cargo", regardless if it's baby birds or Eyegore harvestings, on the night before if you really want it to be ready to get on the plane. This is your TSA at work. Kidney bombs and the like, you see. This was not acceptable to the customer, a shipping company. And the hospital in Atlanta wanted the left one for transplant. So . . . driving it was suggested. And approved, in spite of the gouging extra cost - Capitalism at work, you see. So, Wat got voted to drive it down, seeing as Wat was the only one standing there. I dropped the right kidney off at our office - an acceptable storage place, oddly enough - gassed the car and headed south. Five hundred miles in one clip, drop a kidney to an OR, and drive back. A 22-hour-work shift and awake for 36 hours straight, minus 45 minutes of very short nap time.


So one person ended 2014 quite cold and dead and cleaned out of reuseable body parts. And some person 500 miles away begins 2015 with a better functioning blood filtration system. And it's nice being able to e a very small part of this something which wasn't even possible a couple/three decades ago.


Happy New Year - or Happy Thursday, whichever works for you.

Happy New Year, Wat.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Your new year is starting out busy busy busy.

I have a nephew on the transplant list. Is it selfish to hope you make a trip my way soon?


HNY, Wattage

That all depends on how the dice tumble, you know. One person's misfortune is the good fortune for another - or something like that. I did find out that there is a national system, and local kidneys/organs from here usually go out of town, and the organs used here usually come from out of town. So, I guess this means there is job security in this sill bizness.

Happy New Year, Wat.

Happy New Year/Thursday to you, too, Ms. Boss Lady. Thank's for your bandwidth, too. Pet teh kittehz, plz.

 

[FGB]

In the end money is just money, somebody still has to do it and do it right!

That sort of thing is getting somewhat rare in this day and age!


Good work!

Hope you have a blessed year ahead of you!

 

[Wat_Tyler]

In the end money is just money, somebody still has to do it and do it right!

That sort of thing is getting somewhat rare in this day and age!


Good work!

Hope you have a blessed year ahead of you!

Thank you.


And you/yours, too.


I have always enjoyed getting tasks done correctly, as best as possible.

 

[Bidin~Time]

That all depends on how the dice tumble, you know. One person's misfortune is the good fortune for another - or something like that. I did find out that there is a national system, and local kidneys/organs from here usually go out of town, and the organs used here usually come from out of town. So, I guess this means there is job security in this sill bizness.






Happy New Year/Thursday to you, too, Ms. Boss Lady. Thank's for your bandwidth, too. Pet teh kittehz, plz.

He's on the national kidney transplant list. Kidney transplants don't necessarily require a tragedy as people can offer to donate a kidney. Testing is free, just so everyone knows. The transplant people won't consider me as a candidate because I'm on BP meds. Otherwise, I'm a match, and he'd already be past this issue.




Also: HNY Laurel!

 

[Wat_Tyler]

He's on the national kidney transplant list. Kidney transplants don't necessarily require a tragedy as people can offer to donate a kidney. Testing is free, just so everyone knows. The transplant people won't consider me as a candidate because I'm on BP meds. Otherwise, I'm a match, and he'd already be past this issue.




Also: HNY Laurel!

I have always wondered about the Sell A Kidney Retirement Plan.


The stuff that goes through my head sometimes . . . .

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

At what point did you pick up the fava and chianti?

 

[Que]

Somebody had a very bad Monday night/Tuesday morning, and s/he donated some internal organs. Wat got a call on Tuesday afternoon, late, to go pick up a pair of kidneys to tender to the airport to go out Wednesday morning, first thing.


Trick is, to do that, you have to tender said "cargo", regardless if it's baby birds or Eyegore harvestings, on the night before if you really want it to be ready to get on the plane. This is your TSA at work. Kidney bombs and the like, you see. This was not acceptable to the customer, a shipping company. And the hospital in Atlanta wanted the left one for transplant. So . . . driving it was suggested. And approved, in spite of the gouging extra cost - Capitalism at work, you see. So, Wat got voted to drive it down, seeing as Wat was the only one standing there. I dropped the right kidney off at our office - an acceptable storage place, oddly enough - gassed the car and headed south. Five hundred miles in one clip, drop a kidney to an OR, and drive back. A 22-hour-work shift and awake for 36 hours straight, minus 45 minutes of very short nap time.


So one person ended 2014 quite cold and dead and cleaned out of reuseable body parts. And some person 500 miles away begins 2015 with a better functioning blood filtration system. And it's nice being able to e a very small part of this something which wasn't even possible a couple/three decades ago.


Happy New Year - or Happy Thursday, whichever works for you.

When I was young I had a friend that was a medical courier. I think it was just samples and such, but he would have been perfect for your trip. Fastest car I have ever been in. It was a 1970 VW Fastback. It had a home-built Porsche Carrera inspired whale tail that originally housed the radiator. Later that was moved to the front, giving it a goofy grin.

The power-plant? A dirt-track racing style ported, Mazda rotary 12B. Sounded like the worlds largest electric razor. Ugly homebuilt headers and intake. It was fed by a big (650-750 cfm?)Holley-double-pumper.

The acceleration curve started fast, then crushed your chest. 0-100 in about 2 blocks.

To keep it on the ground it had a front air dam and side-skirts made out of surplus conveyor belt material. It was , of course, Porsche guards red.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

"world's largest electrical razor"

lol

What an image.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

At what point did you pick up the fava and chianti?

How tactless. And that is for liver.

When I was young I had a friend that was a medical courier. I think it was just samples and such, but he would have been perfect for your trip. Fastest car I have ever been in. It was a 1970 VW Fastback. It had a home-built Porsche Carrera inspired whale tail that originally housed the radiator. Later that was moved to the front, giving it a goofy grin.

The power-plant? A dirt-track racing style ported, Mazda rotary 12B. Sounded like the worlds largest electric razor. Ugly homebuilt headers and intake. It was fed by a big (650-750 cfm?)Holley-double-pumper.

The acceleration curve started fast, then crushed your chest. 0-100 in about 2 blocks.

To keep it on the ground it had a front air dam and side-skirts made out of surplus conveyor belt material. It was , of course, Porsche guards red.

I'm using a 20-year-old Corolla wagon, bone-stock, with 1' larger wheels and tires and it gets 35-37MPG on the road at the speed limit, or close to it. All I do is maintain it and put miles on it. It's as good as any car I have ever owned.

 

[Jennifer]

Depending on your location, we may have met! That would be crazy.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Emory University Hospital, OR, third floor.


Unless you were one of the security guys, which I kinda doubt.


I wasn't there 15 minutes, and most of that was getting situated or out of there. The light at the end of the driveway wouldn't turn green, and there was no one else in the intersection, so I ran it to leave.

 

[Que]

That reminds me I probably ought to carry some paperwork. In my state you can update your drivers license to show you as an organ donor, but they won't always take the organs unless the family agrees. Sounds like a morbid conversation but it seems like I ought to have that conversation.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

How tactless. And that is for liver.

...

Kidney beans and Ripple seemed too easy...

 

[Wat_Tyler]

That reminds me I probably ought to carry some paperwork. In my state you can update your drivers license to show you as an organ donor, but they won't always take the organs unless the family agrees. Sounds like a morbid conversation but it seems like I ought to have that conversation.

I have my license tagged for me to be a donor. I've let everyone who might have a say know that. I don't think any of them would argue the point. We're all of the opinion that the dead soul has moved out and that donating the pieces of an empty shell is a good idea. Hell, take it all if it's of use, you know?

Kidney beans and Ripple seemed too easy...

But much more like what would be on the actual menu.


Or Comanchero Brand.

 

[Not Normal]

A Lot of people can't find meaning in their jobs beyond the weekly paycheck. You can see exactly the good that you do for society. I think that's pretty cool.

 

[Jennifer]

Emory University Hospital, OR, third floor.


Unless you were one of the security guys, which I kinda doubt.


I wasn't there 15 minutes, and most of that was getting situated or out of there. The light at the end of the driveway wouldn't turn green, and there was no one else in the intersection, so I ran it to leave.

I have done tons of organ harvests with lots of couriers but we are not very near each other, what a shame.