Community Kidney Quest: A point-and-click fundraiser where you need to save Steve The Developer - UPDATE

[Dreed]

Also when will the campaign end? I wanna chip in more after this month's credit card statement rolls, i will just take money from my entertainment budget and dont buy videogames till december i got plenty anyways

we're extending the fundraiser for another 2 weeks until 17 Nov.

 

[Bumvelcrow]

According to the campaign page:

Campaign Started: 7-Aug-2018
Campaign End: 6-Dec-2018

I now find that the beans and tinned vegetables aisle in my local supermarket has taken on a disturbing ambience.

 

[Binky]

After the kidney gets funded could we run a campaign to get him a skul-gun as well?

 

[Blackthorne]

Also when will the campaign end? I wanna chip in more after this month's credit card statement rolls, i will just take money from my entertainment budget and dont buy videogames till december i got plenty anyways

Hey, that's really nice, but don't do that. You've already contributed and I appreciate the support but you don't have to do something like this. Anyone, please.


Bt

 

[Haba]

What if someone sells their kidney to get the money to be the #1 donor in the campaign?

 

[Brozef]

Any news yet about the payments not showing up? Is paypal pocketing the money?

 

[HoboForEternity]

eh, it is not like i cut my living budget for donating. I will still live in my relative luxury, except some of the money goes into stuff that actually matter instead of games i gonna buy and sitting in backlog for years.

Well, the problem goes when you are too generous and you sacrificing real world stuff for charity. Of course me and my family comes first, but when i have spares to help fellow guy, why not?

 

[Blackthorne]

What if someone sells their kidney to get the money to be the #1 donor in the campaign?

Well, fuck you just blew my mind now. Fucking kidney black market.

Honestly, I don't even know how that'd work. I mean, the surgery to implant a kidney is NOT an easy surgery; it requires the work of a specialized surgeon and a nephrologist - and nephrology isn't like an easy portion of medicine. Nephrologists are usually very very competent, often the smartest guy in the room... you can't really just hire a backroom surgeon to implant a kidney in you and expect it to work and not reject...


Bt

 

[Goral]

Spoiler

If you haven't watched this show yet it's your mistake.

 

[lukaszek]

deterministic system > RNG

 

[HoboForEternity]

What if someone sells their kidney to get the money to be the #1 donor in the campaign?

Well, fuck you just blew my mind now. Fucking kidney black market.

Honestly, I don't even know how that'd work. I mean, the surgery to implant a kidney is NOT an easy surgery; it requires the work of a specialized surgeon and a nephrologist - and nephrology isn't like an easy portion of medicine. Nephrologists are usually very very competent, often the smartest guy in the room... you can't really just hire a backroom surgeon to implant a kidney in you and expect it to work and not reject...


Bt

is it harder to get it in than out?

I hear stories people who got drugged and woke up with missinh kidney, iften done by rogue medical practitioner.

I mean it makes sense, getting it out you just cut, sew while implanting needs you to connect the blood vessels or it would leak

:/

 

[Blackthorne]

is it harder to get it in than out?

I hear stories people who got drugged and woke up with missinh kidney, iften done by rogue medical practitioner.

I mean it makes sense, getting it out you just cut, sew while implanting needs you to connect the blood vessels or it would leak

:/

Well, something most people don't know is that they don't remove your native kidneys when you get a transplant. (Unless you have Poly Cystic Kidney disease, which makes your kidney grow cysts and become HUGE). So your dead native organs remain in your body; your new organ is implanted kind of below your your stomach and behind your hip. My first transplant was over on my right side, my last one was on the left. That's right - I have FOUR kidneys inside my body right now. The next one, as they tell me, will be implanted on the right again, almost next to the last one. I will have five kidneys in me after the next transplant.

That's not the record, though. Some dude has SEVEN.

So yeah, getting them out can be easier than putting them in. Especially putting them in at the native locations. Kidneys are kind of buried and protected by ribs and shit. They remove them through laproscopic surgery now, and minimally invasive. In older days, getting them out was a tough surgery. Which is why stories of waking up in a bathtub full of ice make me go... "yikes."

Bt

 

[HoboForEternity]

Wow thats new to me. I thought it would be more like grafting branch, cut the old one, stick the new one, voila!

 

[Dickie]

I will have five kidneys in me after the next transplant.

Couldn't find the clip I wanted of Zim saying, "More organs means more human," so this one will have to do.

 

[Azael]

Yeesh, that's a terrible condition to have. I've just been through the scare of getting screened for kidney cancer (+myeloma and liver cancer, turns out I "just" have a bunch of abscesses (boils) in my stomach and one abdominal muscle). As soon as I'm out of the hospital I'll be sure to donate.

Stay well

 

[serch]

What about this? I bet lupus couldn't kill it. Or even if it could, patient wouldn't have a supply problem:

https://pharm.ucsf.edu/kidney

A cyberkidney is something I can see the Codex getting behind.

 

[Alienman]

is it harder to get it in than out?

I hear stories people who got drugged and woke up with missinh kidney, iften done by rogue medical practitioner.

I mean it makes sense, getting it out you just cut, sew while implanting needs you to connect the blood vessels or it would leak

:/

Well, something most people don't know is that they don't remove your native kidneys when you get a transplant. (Unless you have Poly Cystic Kidney disease, which makes your kidney grow cysts and become HUGE). So your dead native organs remain in your body; your new organ is implanted kind of below your your stomach and behind your hip. My first transplant was over on my right side, my last one was on the left. That's right - I have FOUR kidneys inside my body right now. The next one, as they tell me, will be implanted on the right again, almost next to the last one. I will have five kidneys in me after the next transplant.

That's not the record, though. Some dude has SEVEN.

So yeah, getting them out can be easier than putting them in. Especially putting them in at the native locations. Kidneys are kind of buried and protected by ribs and shit. They remove them through laproscopic surgery now, and minimally invasive. In older days, getting them out was a tough surgery. Which is why stories of waking up in a bathtub full of ice make me go... "yikes."

Bt

A real human kidney bean.

 

[Brozef]

That's not the record, though. Some dude has SEVEN.

So how much money do we need to break the record and make you the Lord of the Kidney?

 

[Brozef]

On a serious note: have you ever looked into fasting? There are indications it helps with Polycystic diseases as well as Lupus. I mean I wouldn't expect wonders, like it does for Diabetes, but maybe if the kidneys have less to metabolise they'd last you a bit longer. And hopefully you'll have a long time to take another crack at breaking the record.

 

[LeStryfe79]

For some reason, I have Captain America's kidneys, so I will donate what coin I have.

 

[hello friend]

Ey is there some way to donate other than paypal?

 

[Blackthorne]

Ey is there some way to donate other than paypal?

Yes, there is a GoFundMe too; my partner at IQ set it up. I believe the link is in my sig.

 

[MichiK]

Hey,

I donated but I am not showing up on the table... I don't mind not showing up, but I do want to make sure you got the money (PayPal charged me ;-) )

 

[Brozef]

Hey,

I donated but I am not showing up on the table... I don't mind not showing up, but I do want to make sure you got the money (PayPal charged me ;-) )

Yeah I am still waiting as well

 

[Agesilaus]

Hey,

I donated but I am not showing up on the table... I don't mind not showing up, but I do want to make sure you got the money (PayPal charged me ;-) )

Yeah I am still waiting as well

Me three.