One of the more… I don’t know whether to call it ghoulish or gruesome or just plain disconcerting… portion of the seminar was when the grim German/Austrian accented social worker brought up ways to procure yourself a living donor kidney.
Every one of these examples was followed up by the holy grail – “And they got a kidney!”
- Discussions over holiday dinners
- Car decals
- Facebook pleas
- Networking within your church
- Taking out billboards
You remember the Tom Cruise role in Magnolia? Or if you’ve ever seen a really gifted MLM pitchman… this is what our dour social worker became for about ten minutes as she listed all these absolutely true stories of how people had hustled themselves up a kidney.
It was surreal in a way I’ll never be able to put fully into words, and I have to laugh about it, or I might cry.
Curiouser and Curiouser 