There was a lot of talking this week but to what purpose? I feel like we’re reached the Heat-Death of the Luanniverse. Nothing happens, nothing changes forever, and ever and ever.
Luann, say something INTELLIGENT?? You sound like a 5-year-old. Phil is college educated and capable of having a real adult conversation. He’d not be too impressed with a girl who is empty upstairs. And Phil? Do you know that Mrs Horner is NOT eligible for kidney implant and is on dialysis for that very reason? She’s too old. That would go better for Luann to understand that she cannot donate to Mrs Horner. Unless you genuinely don’t know this information and went on this tangent about donating for nothing because Mrs Horner “doesn’t want it” and the high chance of the organ going to a stranger? Working at nursing home, you ought to know your charges aren’t eligible for any kind of transplants. (Not your fault, Phil. That fault lays squarely on your creator…he made you sound stupid too).
It’s one thing for a 19 yr old to consider giving a body part to someone you care about, and a whole other thing to give to someone you don’t know. Her best bet is to leave a directive in case she dies in a car accident. She gets credit for even considering this. Can you imagine Steph ever considering this??
But basically Luann COULDN’T give it to Mrs. Horner because she’s too old to be considered for a transplant. I mean, it’s not like there’s a choice here.
My co-worker lost both his kidneys due to high blood pressure. He didn’t feel it until it was too late.
Besides checking your blood pressure, if you start seeing a lot of foam when you urinate, see a doc immediately. The foam is caused by a higher than normal protein level.
This is really wierd…and getting very disturbing. Why is this guy encouraging a young woman to donate a kidney to some stranger. I don’t mean to sound unsympathetic, but organ donation seems like something you would consider later in life for a loved one, or if you wanted to take immediate action, you could add the organ donation designation to your driver’s license. He’s so casual about it, like suggesting someone should give a coat to charity. This whole thing is wrong on so many levels and it’s definitely not funny at all. What is generating this conversation? Is Greg going through kidney failure?
It’s weird either way, but wonderful. :-) My uncle was a urologist, and performed the harvesting side of kidney donations. The nice part is sometimes he got to meet the donors, which is not something that happens with all organ donations.
Dunno if Luann will donate her kidney, if she decides to register as an organ donor and maybe even become a blood donor. But I like how kind Phill is explaining things to her. I think we’ll see more of him in the future, maybe even when he’s not working at the retirement residence.
Although the arc has good intentions, it really is not realistic. Realistic in a cartoon you sneer? Yes I know. But truthfully I can’t imagine a doctor recommending or condoning a 19/20 year old donating a kidney except in extreme cases. She would probably require approval from her parents. Kidney donation is major surgery at any age plus you compound the risk of her needing a kidney replacement in the future. Plus a directed donation is possible only if tests show a close match. Even sibling matches are only a 25% chance.
Today has made it clear that everyone is gonna end the arc right back where they started, with no character development and no lessons learned. Just more wheel-spinning.
Why not just donate blood, Luann? It’s get replaced in less than 2 months. I am in the gallon club. Plus I directed a donation to my daughter who was having spine surgery at 13. (Scoliosis, she’s pretty good now)
We’re working the wrong end of the age spectrum. Luann should be considering the possibility of getting boob enhancements, not a kidney transplant for an old bat like Mrs. Horner. She should be thinking of ways to give Phil a thrill.
“I’m sure she’ll tell you to give your kidney to someone else”… no, I’m sure she’ll tell her to keep her kidney right where it is, and not take life-altering decisions driven from emotion. Slippery slope there, “Phil”. Going from “I desperately want to help Mrs H.” to “free kidney for donation, let’s find the best candidate!”
The fact is that even if you sign a donor card there is a very low chance that your organs will be viable. You must die in a hospital where you were pronounced brain dead but kept on life support until testing and harvesting is complete. If you are dead prior to arrival the vital organs are not usable. Other parts such as corneas or ligaments may be.
Luann isn’t altruistic enough to donate simply for the sake of donating. She’s only thinking of doing it specifically for Mrs. Horner, which, for a variety of reasons isn’t feasible. I don’t blame her. Much better to be an organ doner after death.
OK, this is not Mary Worth. Just drop this ridiculous story. Luann seems to always get back to being a bland character, trying to “be more interesting” whatever the flavor of the day the “being interesting” has. OK, donate your flipping kidney. Then go feed the poor. Then fall in love with some educated weirdo, break with him, teach poor children in a Brazilian favela. And all of it amounts to a huge nothing burger. Why not just, you know, be funny?
Modify parasitic organisms to duplicate the function of kidneys. (They are already evolved to survive our immune systems.) Then you can meet the demands of all people.
What’s weird is that 90,000 people in the U.S. need ONE kidney to survive and most will die because not enough people will donate one of their kidneys that they don’t need. My husband is one of those 90,000. >
What you don’t realize is that 1. Luann is an adult and decide for herself whether to give someone else the gift of life. 2. Waiting until you die to donate a kidney (the easiest organ to donate) means at least one person will die because you waited. 3. Transplant rules are NOT complicated. 4. The recipient’s insurance pays for ALL testing, ALL medicines and surgery. DONOR SHIELD pays for transportation, lodging (if necessary) and loss of wages, plus more! >
There are risks to donating a kidney. Any operation is risky, and we evolved to have two kidneys for a reason. I think I’d do it to for someone I knew, but not as a non-directed. If that makes me less-than-noble, oh well.
This arc took a morbid turn. I was hoping to see a budding friendship, not a conversation about organ donation. Luann is too young to be living with just one kidney. Would that be a risk factor in a pregnancy?
lvlax 7 days ago
I think this arc is getting a little weird.
My advice would be to just keep your kidney, Luann.
J. Scarbrough 7 days ago
This is weirdly disappointing. Or, is this disappointingly weird? Thoughts beb?
beb01 7 days ago
There was a lot of talking this week but to what purpose? I feel like we’re reached the Heat-Death of the Luanniverse. Nothing happens, nothing changes forever, and ever and ever.
redhawk1138 7 days ago
HA knew it, she’s not serious just like everything else she tries, she just cant commit to anything,
9thCapricorn 7 days ago
Luann, say something INTELLIGENT?? You sound like a 5-year-old. Phil is college educated and capable of having a real adult conversation. He’d not be too impressed with a girl who is empty upstairs. And Phil? Do you know that Mrs Horner is NOT eligible for kidney implant and is on dialysis for that very reason? She’s too old. That would go better for Luann to understand that she cannot donate to Mrs Horner. Unless you genuinely don’t know this information and went on this tangent about donating for nothing because Mrs Horner “doesn’t want it” and the high chance of the organ going to a stranger? Working at nursing home, you ought to know your charges aren’t eligible for any kind of transplants. (Not your fault, Phil. That fault lays squarely on your creator…he made you sound stupid too).
luann1212 7 days ago
Luann haters, jeez you can’t help your compulsive selves can you
reedkomicks Premium Member 6 days ago
It’s one thing for a 19 yr old to consider giving a body part to someone you care about, and a whole other thing to give to someone you don’t know. Her best bet is to leave a directive in case she dies in a car accident. She gets credit for even considering this. Can you imagine Steph ever considering this??
Mordock999 Premium Member 6 days ago
Hey.
With the all insanity surrounding Healthcare these days, I’d KEEP My kidneys if I were You, Lu.
snsurone76 6 days ago
Lessee—who would get hysterical over Luann donating a kidney: Frank? Don’t think so. Nancy? Doubtful. Bernice? Certainly not! Puddles? Mmmm…
illuminare 6 days ago
phils gay so luann you can stop trying to play up to him and move on.
Hello Everyone 6 days ago
Looks like Creepy Creek residence.
French Persons' Celebration of Peeved Harry Dinkle Premium Member 6 days ago
This arc is getting weird.
Rhetorical_Question 6 days ago
An ad to donate your kidney?
Wilkins068 6 days ago
Most of em in Creepy Acres there are prolly beyond the age of havin a kidney installed anyway
daDoctah1 6 days ago
“I’d like a kidney, please.”
“You want that to go?”
“What else?”
Bernedoodle 6 days ago
Just put ‘OrganDonor’ on your driver’s license Luann. Give them all away.
mourdac Premium Member 6 days ago
So much for this arc, it veered into ridiculous territory.
sueb1863 6 days ago
But basically Luann COULDN’T give it to Mrs. Horner because she’s too old to be considered for a transplant. I mean, it’s not like there’s a choice here.
walstib Premium Member 6 days ago
What used to be one of my kidneys is now in SE Iowa on a pig farm.
tremaine53 6 days ago
“Cleepy Creek”, eh?
Ellis97 6 days ago
Maybe you shouldn’t donate, Luann.
Ichabod Ferguson 6 days ago
My co-worker lost both his kidneys due to high blood pressure. He didn’t feel it until it was too late.
Besides checking your blood pressure, if you start seeing a lot of foam when you urinate, see a doc immediately. The foam is caused by a higher than normal protein level.
CountOlaf2.0 Premium Member 6 days ago
Maybe it would go to some guy who would serve it up with fava beans and a nice chianti. slurpslurpslurp : 9
comic reader 22 6 days ago
This is really wierd…and getting very disturbing. Why is this guy encouraging a young woman to donate a kidney to some stranger. I don’t mean to sound unsympathetic, but organ donation seems like something you would consider later in life for a loved one, or if you wanted to take immediate action, you could add the organ donation designation to your driver’s license. He’s so casual about it, like suggesting someone should give a coat to charity. This whole thing is wrong on so many levels and it’s definitely not funny at all. What is generating this conversation? Is Greg going through kidney failure?
ctolson 6 days ago
Well it fits LuAnn ‘casue she’s just weird. Weird is as weird does.
gammaguy 6 days ago
Is a kidney anything like a “trick knee”?
calliarcale 6 days ago
It’s weird either way, but wonderful. :-) My uncle was a urologist, and performed the harvesting side of kidney donations. The nice part is sometimes he got to meet the donors, which is not something that happens with all organ donations.
eced52 6 days ago
Is he going, hint, hint?
Aladar30 Premium Member 6 days ago
Dunno if Luann will donate her kidney, if she decides to register as an organ donor and maybe even become a blood donor. But I like how kind Phill is explaining things to her. I think we’ll see more of him in the future, maybe even when he’s not working at the retirement residence.
Angry Indeed Premium Member 6 days ago
“Hey you! Give me my kidney back!” ;-p
baskate_2000 6 days ago
Luann, you can really be a piece of work. Please don’t donate your kidney if you’re that weirded out about where it will end up.
rbrt6956 6 days ago
Although the arc has good intentions, it really is not realistic. Realistic in a cartoon you sneer? Yes I know. But truthfully I can’t imagine a doctor recommending or condoning a 19/20 year old donating a kidney except in extreme cases. She would probably require approval from her parents. Kidney donation is major surgery at any age plus you compound the risk of her needing a kidney replacement in the future. Plus a directed donation is possible only if tests show a close match. Even sibling matches are only a 25% chance.
el_eye 6 days ago
Weird IS a good word for Luann.
BJShipley1 6 days ago
Today has made it clear that everyone is gonna end the arc right back where they started, with no character development and no lessons learned. Just more wheel-spinning.
imagenesis 6 days ago
Luann, stop being weird, you don’t want to scare this one away!
hoffquotes2 6 days ago
I think the blank slate now describes her brain
Medtech4 6 days ago
Why not just donate blood, Luann? It’s get replaced in less than 2 months. I am in the gallon club. Plus I directed a donation to my daughter who was having spine surgery at 13. (Scoliosis, she’s pretty good now)
mindjob 6 days ago
Next she’ll be at the cemetery
jrankin1959 6 days ago
If you’re dead, would you really know? Or care?
cupertino jay 6 days ago
yeahbut.. where’s the Beef
nightflight 6 days ago
We’re working the wrong end of the age spectrum. Luann should be considering the possibility of getting boob enhancements, not a kidney transplant for an old bat like Mrs. Horner. She should be thinking of ways to give Phil a thrill.
(Meh) 6 days ago
“I’m sure she’ll tell you to give your kidney to someone else”… no, I’m sure she’ll tell her to keep her kidney right where it is, and not take life-altering decisions driven from emotion. Slippery slope there, “Phil”. Going from “I desperately want to help Mrs H.” to “free kidney for donation, let’s find the best candidate!”
Northstar Pendragon 6 days ago
Luann says, “You’ve got to be kidneying me!”
BLUEBONNETS Premium Member 6 days ago
Has anyone heard from KNUTE and CRYSTAL lately?
rbrt6956 6 days ago
The fact is that even if you sign a donor card there is a very low chance that your organs will be viable. You must die in a hospital where you were pronounced brain dead but kept on life support until testing and harvesting is complete. If you are dead prior to arrival the vital organs are not usable. Other parts such as corneas or ligaments may be.
lnrokr55 6 days ago
Think carefully, you can’t grow a new kidney, at least not yet ! ;-)
eladee AKA Wally 6 days ago
Luann isn’t altruistic enough to donate simply for the sake of donating. She’s only thinking of doing it specifically for Mrs. Horner, which, for a variety of reasons isn’t feasible. I don’t blame her. Much better to be an organ doner after death.
beachlvr Premium Member 6 days ago
He’s just not that into you, Luann. Get a clue and get a life.
comic reader 22 6 days ago
This Phil guy is certainly cavalier with other peoples organs. I don’t like him.
The Quiet One 6 days ago
If Mrs. Horner won’t take it, keep it, then you’ll know where it is.
daedalusomega 6 days ago
OK, this is not Mary Worth. Just drop this ridiculous story. Luann seems to always get back to being a bland character, trying to “be more interesting” whatever the flavor of the day the “being interesting” has. OK, donate your flipping kidney. Then go feed the poor. Then fall in love with some educated weirdo, break with him, teach poor children in a Brazilian favela. And all of it amounts to a huge nothing burger. Why not just, you know, be funny?
David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace 6 days ago
Modify parasitic organisms to duplicate the function of kidneys. (They are already evolved to survive our immune systems.) Then you can meet the demands of all people.
[Unnamed Reader - 14b4ce] 6 days ago
Tomorrow we get around to “Can you stand the sight of blood?”
KEA 6 days ago
Like Bucky Fuller said, “Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not. Either thought is staggering.”
Polskamom 6 days ago
What’s weird is that 90,000 people in the U.S. need ONE kidney to survive and most will die because not enough people will donate one of their kidneys that they don’t need. My husband is one of those 90,000. >
Polskamom 6 days ago
What you don’t realize is that 1. Luann is an adult and decide for herself whether to give someone else the gift of life. 2. Waiting until you die to donate a kidney (the easiest organ to donate) means at least one person will die because you waited. 3. Transplant rules are NOT complicated. 4. The recipient’s insurance pays for ALL testing, ALL medicines and surgery. DONOR SHIELD pays for transportation, lodging (if necessary) and loss of wages, plus more! >
eddi-TBH 6 days ago
It’s always a bit weird. I won’t ever know, so I have to feel good about it here every now and then.
Rich Douglas 6 days ago
There are risks to donating a kidney. Any operation is risky, and we evolved to have two kidneys for a reason. I think I’d do it to for someone I knew, but not as a non-directed. If that makes me less-than-noble, oh well.
Otis Rufus Driftwood 6 days ago
This is likely to promote organ donation. And a reminder that the good we often do we don’t see its impact, and we need to accept that.
EXCALABUR 6 days ago
Weird is her middle name
kittysquared Premium Member 6 days ago
This arc took a morbid turn. I was hoping to see a budding friendship, not a conversation about organ donation. Luann is too young to be living with just one kidney. Would that be a risk factor in a pregnancy?
nightflight 5 days ago
This week has been a Public Service Announcement. Next week we will Save the Stray Elephants.