OT: Matt Millen needs heart transplant
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In all seriousness, prayers up for MM
Heard about this earlier today.. Best of luck and prayers to the Millen Family.
How is this getting downvoted ? Are people somehow mad he said health is taken for granted ? SMH
No jokes no grudges.
I hope he gets a heart.
Let this be a call to arms for all the Michigan faithful. We pride ourselves on our money cannon, because we understand that you can't take it with you, and it's important to help others when you can.
So I hope today you register as an organ donor, if you haven't already. If the unthinkable happens you can save MULTIPLE lives by checking one little box.
Just like your money and material possesions, you can't take your organs with you, and it's important to help others when you can.
Ugh, I agree, this comment is horrible. This myth will apparently never go away. Is there no faith in mankind? Do people watch too much TV? We need more donors. This BS doesn't help.
My wife had kidney failure, and she got a kidney from an anonymous live donor in Minn. We met him. He donated while he's still alive, because he has 2 good kidneys. Words cannot begin to express his unselfishness. But others won't donate even after death.
Obviously, a heart is different than a kidney (quantity 1 vs 2), but really? You suck.
That's your opinion, I disagree, but I still think your comment is possibly the worst post ever.
April 28th, 2018 at 12:59 AM ^
Waiting on this same link....Many in my family who are M.D.s and have heard interestign takes on this.
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April 28th, 2018 at 11:56 AM ^
"Each dying patient". So gift of life is aware that an alive person is an organ donor and is making plans for their organs while they are fighting for life ? HUH
You, and your family member (paramedic) are totally, and tragically, misinformed.
As the family member of a person who has been on a transplant list for nearly two years now, you can take this uninformed hearsay and stick it. And tell your family member to cut it out with that crap.
I usually hate when every person on the board has to rip apart someone.
You deserve to hear over and over and over about how stupid this comment was.
Not funny, ignorant, and dangerous.
Also, don't use "they" to refer to one person.
Being a medical doctor starts with the principle of doing no harm to the patients.
I had to get off the phone and log into the computer to downvote
I'm an organ donor and if someone wants my organs bad enough to look into my blood type, hunt me down and kill me, and also somehow be able to guarantee they or their loved one get my organ, then they've earned it.
April 28th, 2018 at 12:05 AM ^
Said family member probably isn't best suited to be a paramedic. I wonder if the folks at The Globe need someone to make up some celebrity's deepest, darkest secrets for consumption by the gullible at supermarket checkout lanes?
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April 27th, 2018 at 10:45 PM ^
I logged in for the first time in awhile to downvote this. This is a very, very dangerous comment that will fuel this false narrative, may keep people from becoming donors, which will cost lives of people on transplant lists.
As a physician, part of my training involved spending time in ICUs and ERs; this absolutely DOES NOT come into play, and most of the time we only find out a patient is an organ donor after the decision is made to withdraw care. Organs cannot survive long without blood flow, so many of the organs come from people who are brain dead, but are on a mechanical ventilator so the heart can continue to circulate blood through a dead body. Then, surgeons must be mobilized to procure organs after a match is identified, etc. It is logistically not possible for an emergency physician to determine a patient is an organ donor, allow the patient to die, procure the organs before they are nonfunctional, identify a transplant recipient, etc. And yes, I am a registered organ donor.
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Very well written post. I wish I could upvote you a million. Thank you.
"A lie can travel half way around the globe while the truth is putting on its shoes."
Hopefully he gets a new heart and recovers. Also, was the paragraph about his failings w/ the Lions really necessary in an article about his serious health condition, Detroit News? Good lord that was tasteless.
they would put in his obituary. I wonder if it was lifted from a pre-written one?
The wordplay was harsh, but fortunately they didn't waste a lot of time talking about that era of Lions football. They could have mentioned that he was one of the best color commentators before the Lions hired him.
Nah, just kidding. I take my sports seriously; they're important to me, but there are more important things.
As for the discussion above, I've heard people say those things about not being an organ donor just in case. I can imagine, dying going to heaven, and St. Peter saying, "Dude, why did you check that box on your license. We were about ready to swoop in, but by the time we got there, Dr. Moneybux had already picked you cleann." If that happened, I'd laugh. "Oh well, joke's on me."