31 Days of Halloween Day #5Since I had a wonderful convo with my nephrologist today.....IYKYK
The Story goes: Steve, a traveling businessman, After a long day of boring meetings, just wants to unwind with a strong drink at the hotel bar. All of a sudden an absolutely gorgeous woman by the name of Cindy begins to flirt with him. Happily very intoxicated, the pair go upstairs and enjoy the rest of their evening.That is until the morning when Steve wakes up in the bathtub. He is freezing and feels sicker than he ever has in his life. While he tries to process what is going on he realizes he is sitting in melting ice, for some reason. And that’s when he turns his head and sees his cell phone with a note placed under it. It reads “I have taken your kidney. Call 911 immediately or you will die.”
It's all an Urban legend and even poked fun of in great classics like the movie by the same name, Jay and Silent Bob, and of course the Saw franchise, Great, gory, made-up fun!
This may be a what came first deal..the chicken or the kidney.
This legend has been around as far back as any of us remember, it really isn't that far off from actual truths.
There’s a very real market for transplantable human organs, in which demand exceeds supply.
In India, the desperately poor can sell a kidney for $1,000 to $1,500. The People’s Republic of China doesn’t even bother to pay; they extract organs from death row inmates by force and freshly executed prisoners. In related crimes, common in some developing countries, babies have reportedly been kidnapped by rich Westerners so they can be stripped for parts.
A Washington Post story (linked in comments) on January 30, 2008, reported that police had raided a “kidney bazaar run by a group of men posing as doctors” in Gurgaon, India. Five were arrested and five other individuals, all laborers, were rescued, three of whom had lost kidneys.
Prospective kidney purchasers are believed to have come from Canada, Greece, Saudi Arabia, and Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The scheme allegedly was masterminded by one Amit Kumar, at large at the time of writing, who has run similar operations in India since the early 1990s.
Isolated cases? Perhaps, but in 2010, An Associated Press article revealed in New Delhi, India, The arrest of 10 people, including three Indo-Canadian transplant surgeons and a hospital owner, after a patient claimed he’d been lured to the hospital and robbed of a kidney.
Supposedly the hospital had promised the man a job in Singapore and told him a medical exam was needed to obtain a visa. Similar allegations about the hospital apparently had been made earlier. In another case on record young man disappeared only to show up three months later $750 richer and a kidney shy. (The 2 surgeons pleaded guilty, served 12 years, and were released Sept 29th, 2022. Dr Jasminder is reported to be In Timmins, Ontario)
Is it unlikely to head to a bar, get all wobbly, and wake up on ice, without a kidney…Yeah not really a thing, too many factors involved.
But has it actually happened? Yes.
Sooooo
Anyone wanna meet me at the bar? Healthy, mid-late 30s, maybe happen to be O- blood type? Just let me know!! Drinks are on me!
CHEERS!
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