Replies to '01/22 Cojo: Back from the Brink'

This is to Donna from NJ

Shame on you. People like you really piss me off.  When I think about the fact that someone is still on a list waiting on a transplant, but you have one and are not bothering to take care of it....I get really pissed off.  I am not sure how you got on a list while smoking because most of the places that I know of will not allow you to be listed if you smoke.  My husband had a transplant 4 years ago.  The whole time he was on the list his blood was checked for nicotine.  Now when your transplant fails...years earlier then it could have lasted, you will cost everyone.  You will get to go back on medicare, that cost tax payers, you are a teacher, so I am guessing that you have some sort of county/city insurance, more cost to tax payers, ECT....not to mention the emotional cost to family and friends.  You seem proud of the fact that you are non compliant with your treatment.  What a disrepect to the person that gave you your kidney.  My husband tries very hard to make sure that he is doing everything that he can to make sure he is keeping his kidney (we call him Ralph) happy and healthy. 

I am glad you are not my daughters teacher.  Children really do look up to their teachers and when you get sick again the kids will be heart broken.  That is not fair to those kids.

SLMYNATT

You, and the two morons on the show who won't even make an effort to TRY to quit smoking are just ridiculous. Do you think it's cute or funny that you're you have lupus, have had a kidney transplant, have a mother who died of lung cancer, yet keep "pressing your luck and your 9 lives". Why not just hold a gun to you head and pull the trigger?

The idiots on the show showed no concern for their children (who are likely suffering from the second hand smoke, will likely start smoking themselves at a young age, and probably be left without one or both parents in the near future.) How selfish can you get? Nothing but trash, plain and simple. They said themselves they want to drink, smoke, eat bad food, party, and have fun. Um, time to grow up, you're parents! Their poor kids.

And yes, before anyone asks, I did quit smoking so don't preach to me about how hard it is, and how I just don't get it because I haven't been there. I grew up and did what I had to do. Kids deserve healthy parents who set a good example, not people who care more about partying with booze and ciggarettes.