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A South Carolina man says he has been taken off the waiting list for a kidney transplant for refusing to take the COVID-19 vaccine. Jason Wilson undergoes daily dialysis in order to flush the toxins out of his body because his kidneys cannot.
A new kidney would fix the problem, but Wilson is declining to be vaccinated and now, he says, he is being taken off the transplant waiting list. He said he had been on the list for more than a year waiting for a kidney. The average survival rate for a kidney transplant is 96.8 percent
But he received a letter warning him that, without vaccination, he would lose his spot.
Faced with what would seem like an obvious choice to many, Wilson has, apparently, decided its not worth it.
I was born a free man, he told The Greenville News. We have a right to decide and choose to make our own decisions. And health is actually a private matter.
Being stubborn as I am, I guess, I dont see me giving up my rights to give into them, just for me to get the kidney, he said.
https://www.pennlive.com/coronavirus/2022/02/man-in-need-of-kidney-taken-off-transplant-waiting-list-after-refusing-covid-19-vaccine-report.html
MLAA
(17,300 posts)All while putting other dialysis patients at risk at the dialysis clinic.
Aristus
(66,399 posts)Bleacher Creature
(11,257 posts)no_hypocrisy
(46,130 posts)Scrivener7
(50,956 posts)NickB79
(19,253 posts)Oh, that's all? Carry on without one then.
WillUSAF
(91 posts)Claire Oh Nette
(2,636 posts)We don't give kidneys or livers to active alcoholics.
We don't give lungs or hearts to smokers or coke addicts. We don't give bone marrow to heroin addicts.
His transplant team explained med compliance with while he waits. If he's not vaccinated, then he gets bumped down. That's it. He's not off the list, he's just not qualified now. After his transplant, he'd have to take immunosuppressants, which means he'd be more susceptible to lethal covid without the vax.
My husband followed his nephrologist's instructions to the letter, and we were lucky enough to get a kidney for him.
No sympathy for this guy.
bif
(22,722 posts)left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Botany
(70,522 posts).... a grayish yellow color smelling of urine and maybe with your lungs filling up with fluids from covid pneumonia too.
One more dead MAGA idiot who gets his medical degree from Facebook U and did his residency @ the Fox
Medical School.
Oh well. Wish I could care but I don't.
PortTack
(32,778 posts)A wasted organ, the time and effort by the medical team is significant, to say nothing of the organ donor!
tinrobot
(10,903 posts)...then replace it with a new one, all while keeping him sedated, but alive during the procedure.
Yet, he won't listen to those same doctors when they ask him to get a simple vaccine.
Dude, if you want that kidney, you gotta follow the instructions they gave you.
DFW
(54,412 posts)What if he learned that he was just as free to take the vaccine as he was to refuse it?
He is quite free, after all, to refuse the dialysis, too, isn't he? Why doesn't he take a six month free trial of THAT treatment? He can sing the theme to M*A*S*H, can't he?
Of course, he WAS born a free man. That does NOT require him to die an idiot, but, still, he IS a free man.......
NCjack
(10,279 posts)dalton99a
(81,526 posts)Botany
(70,522 posts)onecaliberal
(32,865 posts)underpants
(182,837 posts)Initech
(100,082 posts)Lunabell
(6,089 posts)he needs to follow science.
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)Get your daily dialysis - until you can't anymore - then die. That's called "owning the libs".
The stupid is strong with this one.
lindysalsagal
(20,693 posts)Publicly paved roads? Publicly inspected food? Drugs? Water? Does he use publicly funded trains, busses? Does the fool believe he's totally "free" of society's assistance and regulations? Are there people who will miss him? Doesn't he care about them?
DuaneT
(46 posts)so we all know he hasn't paid into social security and Medicare taxes as long as some of us.
LisaL
(44,973 posts)Or is it just covid vaccine that he thinks will mean he isn't a "free man?"
But if he wants to spend the rest of his life (however long that is) attached to a dialysis machine for many hours per day, in order to be a "free man" who am I to argue with that logic?
raptor_rider
(1,014 posts)Went UP after my vaccination. I fought and worked hard to get it down to the lowest, a 6 in these 6 years after quitting drinking and being end stage liver cirrhosis. My Drs say I cannot take any of the vaccines now with all the other side effects. Guess Im fucked by yalls standards if I need a new liver. Humans like yall disgust me.
JanMichael
(24,890 posts)Tough shit.