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I can't see any articles on this subject... although there may be a few further down the postings......
i feel very strongly about the George Best situation at the moment and thought i should say something to find out if i am the only one!
He has drunk for many many years now, not carefully but excessively. His liver packs in so he gets another, whether it be because he had the money for treatment or whether it was genuinely his turn to receive a transplant at the time i don't know, guess we never will. He then continues drinking and wrecks a vital organ which could have been used more effectively and would have been appreciated so much more by another person!
I think that is horrible as my mum needed a kidney transplant due to having renal failure brought about by an inheritable disease. My mum hardly drank, didnt smoke and generally looked after herself, she was not in control of the disease and apart from the dialysis she received and eating an healthy diet she was unable to stop the failure.
My mum died a year ago next week and i often think what it would have been like if she had received a transplant but one thing is for sure she would not have wasted the opportunity of an increased quality of life like Best has......
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I agree with stellaqueen , totally.
I'm one of the lucky ones who got a kidney , but I saw many waiting for one die, and livers.He shouldn't have got one, and no , you can't jump the organ transplant list by going private.That's not to say he jumped the NHS list , it's not like that really as tissue typing and other factors have to be taken into consideration , you can wait a matter of weeks or a matter of years , it's not just a case of being "next in line".
Nice charactor assasination that baldy...
where has best ever blamed anyone but himself for his illness..and why the fuss about best receiving organ transplants, right this minute there are dozens of people who are receiving liver organs who happen to be alcoholics the likelyhood of which is that many of them will return to abusing their bodies with alchohol, yet there is no outcry about these cases and rightly so because who is for us to judge who should and shouldn't get liver and other organ transplants.
Just to answer darkstars question.... i am named stellaqueen because i couldn't use my own name as there was already users. therefore i asked a few mates who were here for suggestions.... as my first car was named stella (at the time was the first name i thought of, for no apparent reason) and one of my mates suggested that i called myself stellaqueen. nothing to do with the drink - as that is what i think your suggesting. As with my mum inheriting the disease i also have inherited it. im not stupid enuff to drink loads, as george best did.
i am not for one minute saying he wasnt a good footballer, there is no argument there i am merely commenting on his lifestyle which i will argue did not help his situation at all.
I agree with a lot of the views regarding George and his continued drinking after receiving his transplant.
Gary Baldy, the NHS is not a luxury, it is a right!! The Government does not provide this service free of charge. The public pay for it including those who smoke, drink and whatever else you may not agree with and therefore have the right to receive whatever treatment may be necessary.
The NHS is not clogged with people like him, it is clogged with people who have the same right to treatment as anyone else whatever their vices, having spent their working lifes contributing to the system.
The NHS puts us all on the same playing field, pardon the pun. Which is how it should be.
We may not always agree with decisions that are made but where would we be without the NHS?
Perhaps you would prefer that though as you seem to think people who smoke/drink are not worth very much anyway because in doing so they are unwilling to live "better" lives.