Transplanting Hope: My Life - Someone Else's Heart | 
My second #uniquefact for the #augustphotochallenge is that I have been conducting research on the legal aspects of organ donations for the last 6 years and recently I was given the chance to actually witness a kidney transplant. Without a doubt the best moment in my life and it's actually got me thinking about attempting to get into medical school. It was all I wanted to do after school but due to circumstances I rather ended up in law.
TheLondonBookworm That sounds amazing! 8y
LeahBergen Wow!! ❤️ 8y
CherylDeFranceschi Incredible! 8y
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cuiuup How awesome! 8y
Chessa Wow! That's really cool! 8y
Biljana Awesome! 8y
LauraBeth You should totally go! If you don't, you'll regret it 😀 so go 8y
RealLifeReading Wow! 8y
BarbaraTheBibliophage I have a dear friend waiting for a kidney, and she suggested this book to all of us. Must read! 8y
bookishkai Adding to my stack; my partner is two and a half years post diagnosis of end stage renal failure, goes to dialysis three times a week, and is waiting waiting waiting for a kidney transplant. 8y
BookishFeminist So cool! I'm a law grad too 😀 organ donations is such a fascinating legal topic. Interested to hear what you've found! 8y
Jellybeanbon Thanks everyone!! 8y
Jellybeanbon @BarbaraTheBibliophage and @bookishkris It always heartbreaking to hear how long people need to wait for a donor kidney. Dialysis can be so draining for the patient and the family. This transplant that I attended was a 10 year old kiddy that was born with Renal failure and he waited all these years for a suitable donor kidney. 8y
Jellybeanbon @BookishFeminist I'm from SA so our Constitution is supreme law I based my masters thesis on the viewpoint that according to your rights in the Constitution a person should be given the option to be remunerated for a kidney donation. The majority of my research has been based on improving the acute organ shortage by incorporating a form of remuneration. Lately I have been working on the referral process in the hospitals. 8y
BookishFeminist @Jellybeanbon That's super cool! I'm not sure if remuneration for kidney donation is legal in US but I have a sneaky suspicion it's not. What an interesting perspective. Thanks for indulging my curiosity! 8y
Jellybeanbon @BookishFeminist most probably not. At this stage it's only officially legal to buy and sell kidneys in Iran. It has been since the 80s and they are the only country in the world that does not have a waiting list of kidney recipients they actually have a list of people waiting to donate (or rather sell) their kidneys. In Singapore they allow remuneration for a few specified things regarding the transplant. Israel now recently also started to.. 8y
Jellybeanbon Work with the idea of remuneration. In SA our draft regulations mentions that remuneration can be awarded but no legislation specifies who needs to provide this legislation and how much it should be. 8y