Sort of OT...Kidney Donation

grote15

Has anyone heard about Everson Walls donating his kidney to former Cowboy teammate Ron Springs? I'm just so impressed by Walls, a truly great football player in his day, that he would do such a thing for a former teammate in such great need. It wasn't even supposed to get out, but Ron's son Shawn Springs, a good NFL player in his own right, apparently let the cat out of the bag. In this day of greed and selfishness in sports and in society, this is a truly heartwarming story of what generosity and class are all about, especially during the holiday season. How can you even measure such a contribution and gift? A great story...

zef204

I posted it on the sports forum a week or so ago, and did not get many responses. Yes, an awesome gesture of the most selfless kind. With all the BS and arrests in the news from NFLer's its amazing this wasn't more publiczed.

zef204

I actually had some 83's sitting in a box on the ground and found 2 nice Walls and Springs cards.

grote15

I actually had some 83's sitting in a box on the ground and found 2 nice Walls and Springs cards.



Nice cards, zef! Didn't realize you had already posted about Walls and Springs. t's funny how a thread about Rosie O'Donnell and Donald Trump gets multiple posts, but no one seems to say much about Walls & Springs, huh?

FavreFan1971

Friends do many things for each other. I have never met or read much on either player. This just tells you that all of these celebs that are athletes are regular joe's and close friends.

grote15

Friends do many things for each other.

Not many friends do this, though. Just seems ironic to me that we hear about TO spitting in a DB's face for about three days, but no one talks about something like this...

zef204

<< <i> Friends do many things for each other.

Not many friends do this, though. Just seems ironic to me that we hear about TO spitting in a DB's face for about three days, but no one talks about something like this... >>


You're right grote.

This hits close to home for me. Last year my aunt was a kidney recipient, her second because the first one her body rejected, and a pancreas recipient as well. She is dong great and is no longer diabetic. But I went in to see if I could be a donor for her kidney and unfortunately I wasn't a match. But she got lucky and got one(and a pancreas) and all has worked out well so far. I since have become an "organ donor" on my license because someone out there who also was a donor, saved my aunt's life.

DeutscherGeist

Very nice story.....

I just want to add that progress in stem cell research will slowly do away with a need for organ donation--meaning there will be more options available. There is a technique called Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer in which embryonic stem cells that can be an exact DNA match to the patient be potentially utilized to repair damaged or aberrant islet cells in the pancreas, etc. Adult stem cells are already being used for a variety of applications and since those come directly from the patient (except in the case of bone marrow transplant), there is also no issue of tissue rejection.

nightcrawler

True charity is rare, a virtue that will never win, over greed. Not for me, not in my lifetime.

Almost every single time I've ever given anything for charity, it was either to make myself look or feel good

I admire people like Everson, and people that do things anonamously. They really make me think.

Merry Christmas guys

Trent

Jdurg

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<< <i> Friends do many things for each other.

Not many friends do this, though. Just seems ironic to me that we hear about TO spitting in a DB's face for about three days, but no one talks about something like this... >>


You're right grote.

This hits close to home for me. Last year my aunt was a kidney recipient, her second because the first one her body rejected, and a pancreas recipient as well. She is dong great and is no longer diabetic. But I went in to see if I could be a donor for her kidney and unfortunately I wasn't a match. But she got lucky and got one(and a pancreas) and all has worked out well so far. I since have become an "organ donor" on my license because someone out there who also was a donor, saved my aunt's life. >>



That's good to hear. I'm a Type I Diabetic myself (been so for 24 years now) and know that a kidney transplant will be in my future no matter good a control my blood sugars are. I just hope and pray that I can survive long enough to where this stem cell research can provide fruitful benefits for those like myself. Sadly, as long as George Bush has any power at all we'll never see it happen.