My sister-in-law died yesterday.
Now, several years ago, she worked in China for a while, was sick and was in hospital. She has recently suffered kidney failure which was at the root of her being sick. It now transpires that she only had one kidney, the other one had ... disappeared
My wife has only one kidney. This was discovered during scans she had when they were looking to see if her cancer had spread.
Bill
Sorry to hear that...
With help?
I don't think anyone could nick a kidney without it being rather obvious, even if you were in a hospital. Brian
The lad I raced sidecars with in my yoof had only one kidney .. the scar was such that it would have been immediately apparent to anyone that he'd had surgery.
I had another friend who also had a single kidney, no scar. He'd been like that from birth without knowing until he had a scan for something else!
The scar from kidney removal is huge. Looks like you've been filleted like a fish. That's why *donating* a kidney is a much bigger deal than receiving one (in surgical terms).
Was there evidence that there'd ever been a second one?
In message , Brian Gaff writes
I suppose it depends how ill you are and what drugs you're given
A bit late to find out now
... crickets ...
The silence was deafening...
I *still* think it's an urban myth.
MBQ
No reason to think there wasn't
Not something you normally go out of your way to find out unless there's a problem, is it
Happened to a schoolfriend of mine. He was pissing blood after a rugby injury, a scan showed he only had one kidney so couldn't afford to lose one, banned from playing rugby again.
I recall reading of someone who found they had 4 kidneys. IIRC, he donated a couple of them.
Unless her original condition required surgery in the appropriate area, surely the presence of a large scar would have been noticed?
OTOH, iif kidney trouble was the cause of her original condition, then the cure required the removal of a kidney, and either nobody ever told her or the explanation was lost in translation...
-- Halmyre
No reason to think there was from your posts. The scar would be the giveaway, unless you think it was removed by Uri Geller.
Nothing you have said points to it being anything other than an urban myth.
MBQ
Just don't know, and now we never will
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