Tales from the Organ Trade

it is one of the great miracles of modern medicine ring of a dying patient with a transplanted body part but there was a worldwide shortage of or who's kind of surplus of for people who believe that the solution to their suffering is not to receive in Oregon but to sell one Vienna a 44 year old husband and father family from abject poverty he's decided to sell one of his kidneys  his home is a crawl space under someone else's shock it's too small to stand up in and there's no electricity lower talking about hey Google on mobile piranha Messina Lahaina Luau find 90% of 1 did the Philippines like almost everywhere else on Earth selling a part of your body is illegal the result is a flourishing Black Market run by Backstreet Brokers like Diane  like most Brokers Diane sold Veron canoes and served as the agent for a dozen members of her extended family when they sold their an cydonia Diane has offered Joe boy $2,500 double what he turned from unskilled labor in a year  play fake animal how heavy is someone who is desperately ill every year over the world sounds of people like Jobo and make the same decision 50 years ago it wasn't possible to take one kidney from another to save a life now it's almost routine  we are born with two with proper care we can live in Thrive with one but the demand for this Oregon far exceeds the supply so many desperate patients turn to the black market where countries you can pick up a kidney for the price of a laptop I was diagnosed at 21 that I had kidney failure Diary 1 stop is it happens when you're older of course you going to the mile and you think your way this can't be happening to me  I'm just trying to live the life I think I would have lived if this didn't happen she's kept alive on dialysis  dialysis what it does is I mean it it cleans your blood but it is not it's not just taking out the toxins of sticking out everything so anything good that's in your bodies well comes out at the same time so you know you're wiped out when you get off completely wiped out so it mean to takes turn right on I love it I've got stuff happening all the time ago three-year-old kid is got special needs I've got a I've got a house I've got a career if I want to do the things I've always wanted to do I still want to travel I want to I want to live my life so this is my dialysis machine Loop doing dialysis is a very traumatizing experience I'm letting it took me I'd say at least a good year to really get used to sticking chalk needles in my arm do you have to do dialysis every other day it just changes you it changes the way you look at things that changes your way of life your perspective on things and how you would do things turn on light can't stay on this machine forever it doesn't do what a kidney does some days I think God how much longer am I going to have to do this I would love to have a living donor if that was possible set alarm of the offers me a kidney or unless the cadaver becomes available this is what keeps me alive there's no point in having a bad attitude you put up with what you put up with and there's no point in complaining about it to matter...