#kidneys posts

[kidneystheallpowerful]

Guys. Hear me out on fiddlebill.. or billfiddle whatever makes you happier

[cadriona]

So, a funny thing happened on trigun twitter

(amazon link where its 50% off as of May 8th: https://www.amazon.com/This-How-You-Lose-Time/dp/1534430997/)

(more up to date version here because holy fuck did this escalate)

[notzawzark]

pisting(haha pisting, im not fixin this mistype) for old fandoms is always kinda embarrassing, cause yeaahhh im still rabid about this shit 6 years later

anwyays radical fucking creepypasta art drop

[squea]

the beach episode part 1...

aka sending corn on a vacation where i let full autonomy take the wheel!! this is gonna be the best vacation ever! nervous gulp

fun fact: corn has 10 friends! 5 of which are good friends: his mum, jaimie, maeve, jackson, and some guy on the internet he calls Wires (we're not sure if hes real)

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[blastlight]

[eyes-of-nine]

they're so childhood friends to lovers bodyguard au coded to me 😌✨ (they have killed so so many people)

[doomspaniels]

One of my dearest friends needs help, and he doesn't know what else to do besides ask. I also don't know what to do besides ask. Do you think you can help Matt find a living donor? There's no request for money here; Matt is lucky enough not to need a gofundme.

I knew Matt when he was diagnosed, and I have watched as he has dramatically changed his diet, taken awful meds, and otherwise done everything he possibly could to slow this outcome. But kidney failure was going to happen, no matter what. At his website he talks about PKD and its severity.

Hi folks. My name is Matthew Balaun. I'm a 45 year old father of a wonderful young daughter. I'm also in need of a replacement kidney.

I was born with polycystic kidney disease, which is the same disease that ultimately led to my mother's death when she was 46. I was diagnosed with the same disease in my early 20s. I've done everything I could to slow the progression of the disease, but there is no cure and the only real treatment is transplant.

It is a hell of a thing to have to ask, but if any of you are willing to consider being a living kidney donor, it would mean the world to me. You would literally be saving my life.

https://matt.needsakidney.org/

Edit July 2024: My friend is down to 12% kidney function. The world needs him, as it needs all of you. If you are willing to even think about becoming a donor someday, would you consider taking Emory University's donor quiz at https://www.emorylivingdonor.org/ please? If you are willing to copy this image to show to friends, please do. Matt is having some bumper stickers made with the website also. Would anyone be willing to put them up? I would be happy to send them to you.

Thank you for reading ❤️

[reasonsforhope]

"For the first time, genetically modified pig kidneys provided “life-sustaining kidney function” during the course of a planned seven-day clinical study—a first step in addressing the critical crisis worldwide of kidney donor organ shortage.

The University of Alabama’s pre-clinical human study at Birmingham also advances the science and promise of xenotransplantation as a therapy to potentially cure end-stage kidney disease—just as a human-to-human transplants can.

“It has been truly extraordinary to see the first-ever preclinical demonstration that appropriately modified pig kidneys can provide normal, life-sustaining kidney function in a human safely and be achieved using a standard immunosuppression regimen,” said UAB transplant surgeon scientist Jayme Locke, M.D., director of UAB’s Comprehensive Transplant Institute and lead author of the paper...

The peer-reviewed findings published last month in JAMA Surgery describes the pioneering pre-clinical human research performed on a recipient experiencing brain death...

The pre-clinical human brain death model developed at UAB can evaluate the safety and feasibility of pig-to-human kidney xenografts, or transplants, without risk to a living human. It is named for transplant pioneer Jim Parsons, an organ donor whose family generously donated his body to advance xenotransplant kidney research, like the latest patient did.

A Critical Need

Kidney disease kills more people each year than breast or prostate cancer, while more than 90,000 people are on the transplant waiting list. More than 800,000 Americans are living with kidney failure and 240 Americans on dialysis die every day. The wait for a deceased donor kidney can be as long as five to 10 years, and almost 5,000 people per year die waiting for a kidney transplant.

Groundbreaking Study Details

The 52-year-old study subject for this research lived with hypertension and stage 2 chronic kidney disease, which affects more than one in seven U.S. adults, or an estimated 37 million Americans. As part of this study, the subject had both of his native kidneys removed and dialysis stopped, followed by a crossmatch-compatible xenotransplant with two 10 gene-edited pig kidneys, or UKidney.

The transplanted pig kidneys made urine within four minutes of re-perfusion and produced more than 37 liters of urine in the first 24 hours. The pig kidneys continued to function as they would in a living human for the entirety of the seven-day study. Also, the kidneys were still viable at the time the study was concluded.

“In the first 24 hours these kidneys made over 37 liters of urine,” said Dr. Locke. “It was really a remarkable thing to see.” ...

Gene editing in pigs to reduce immune rejection has made organ transplants from pigs to humans possible. The natural lifespan of a pig is 30 years, they are easily bred, and they have organs of similar size to humans. Genetically modified pig kidneys have been extensively tested in non-human primates, and the addition of UAB’s preclinical human research model—the Parsons Model—now provides important information about the safety and efficacy of kidneys in human transplant recipients."

-via Good News Network, September 17, 2023

[orb-the-watchman]

Here’s a swap I haven’t seen that often surprisingly

[so-very-small]

i know mouth to mouth isn’t used in CPR anymore, but regardless i am thinking of being a tiny, already scared because you’re undergoing some medical emergency, now having a finger as big as you are giving you chest compressions, massive lips breathing air into your lungs. being utterly reliant on those two terrifying things and the giant who’s doing them, along with hoping the giant just enough pressure and air, and not too much.

[salmonella-destroyer-of-worlds]

[kidneystheallpowerful]

Billjosh shippers... DNI 😡😡😡/j

[partyswirl]

:J

[chaifootsteps]

What would really help with Viv's designs would be making them have actual meat on them so they're not like sticks. Not only would they look actually normal but I feel that it wouldn't feel so overcomplicated because there's more space for all of Viv's punny details so it isn't as crammed. You know what I meant, okay anyways

-Your one and only, kidney stone anon

Got to pour some protein shakes down those noodles so they don't blow away when the wind picks up.

(Not Stolas though, Stolas doesn't deserve protein or food or love.)

[pseudophan]

Is it bad that I feel really, really upset seeing that someone has 6 m&g tickets for TIT meanwhile dnp aren't even coming anywhere near my continent, so I can't go to the tour no matter what and I have to save up for or a kidney transplant soon so I can't recklessly spend money on a booking a flight :((

I'm happy for them, and I'm happy dnp are getting the love they deserve, and I feel awful for feeling this way but I really feel bad :((

it's not bad, it's a very natural reaction and you have all the right to feel that way. i think that's the thing a lot of people are missing, your emotions about it are completely valid and understandable, it's just when people then start being really mean to those lucky people who are going to all the m&gs that it gets shitty. no one can expect you to just not be upset that someone is meeting them a bunch of times and you aren't, especially if you can't go to a show at all. it's all about how you navigate it, you know?

allow yourself to feel things, it's good for you

[julymp4]

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