Hypatia

Hey there. In short I'm looking for potential donors as I need a live liver transplant. I've set up a bunch of information and links over at - https://ginpuliver.carrd.co/

Even if you cannot help me directly, please share this with others. There is bound to be someone out there that can help.

Thank you all in advance.

The liver is kind of nuts, it does hundreds and hundreds of things in your body. It's like a chem lab, it converts stuff into other stuff, and since it does so much, it's really hard to replicate with meds or dialysis or whatever.

But what makes the liver really OP is its ability to heal itself. For a live¹ liver transplant, the donor has only a PIECE of their liver taken, not the whole thing. But their liver regrows and they're good as new (sans the scar from the operation). And for the donor, that piece...also turns into a whole new liver. You can't do that with a kidney or any other part of your body.

Live donations have a lot of benefits, since there's no harvesting an organ from a dead body and putting it in an ice cooler (so there's risk of damage from lack of blood/oxygen, or whatever it is that killed that person, like a car crash), or having to get a surprise surgery at 1 am to get your new organ. And also the donor doesn't have to pay anything! It's the recipient's insurance that pays for everything. There's nonprofits that can pay for stuff like travel/lodging/etc.

Even if you end up not being a match for Ginpu, you'll be a match for someone out there, and you'll make someone's life way better! You don't have to be (biologically) related to the person who'd get the transplant, or know them at all. You'll be saving someone from suffering and dying on the waiting list; the longer they're having liver problems, the worse their whole body will get, which will make surgery even riskier for them.

And you can donate even if you're gay. None of that "oh you're gay therefore you might have HIV so we will never, ever, ever take your blood" bullshit, since they obviously test you for HIV, among a ton of other things. It's kinda fucked up you can donate a whole-ass organ but not blood, but what can you do lol

This page has a bunch of info on live liver donations and transplants, please check it out!!!

1. as in, the donor is a living person who fully consented to all of this. Instead of a donation from a person who has died (and gave consent before they died, like on their drivers license or whatever)