My only grudge against nature was that I could not turn my Lolita inside out and apply voracious lips to her young matrix, her unknown heart, her nacreous liver, the sea-grapes of her lungs, her comely twin kidneys.
Organ donation is very personal to me. My mother, before her death, was on kidney dialysis for several years.
If (Declan) Kidney had gone for religion instead of teaching, he would have been Pope.
The brain secretes thought as the stomach secretes gastric juice, the liver bile, and the kidneys urine.
Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.
Another advantage of avoiding sodas is that you will avoid the caffeine that is in many of them. Caffeine is a weak diuretic that causes calcium loss via the kidneys.
In China, people are selling their kidney to buy an iPhone 6. What's going to happen when the iPhone 7 comes out?
Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patients renal and cardiopulmonary status. This spectacular success was a clear demonstration that organ transplantation could be life-saving.
Twelve people die every day because there aren't enough kidneys.
Rush Limbaugh was the 20th hijacker. I hope his kidneys fail.
Altruism became the sole legitimate motivation for giving a kidney. And it is a partial - I say a partial failure.
I've still got both kidneys, but one doesn't work, so I have to be careful not to drink too much, even water, and I have to keep myself as healthy as possible.
I hope his kidneys fail, how about that? He needs a waterboarding, that's what he needs.
Not wanting to give everyone in your life one of your kidneys is not the same thing as hoping they die of kidney failure.
Caffeine dehydrates the body and speeds up the aging of the skin and kidneys.
It was the nicest thing she could imagine. It made her want to have his babies and give him both of her kidneys.
It is astounding to me, and achingly sad, that with eighty thousand people on the waiting list for donated hearts and livers and kidneys, with sixteen a day dying there on that list, that more then half of the people in the position H's family was in will say no, will choose to burn those organs or let them rot. We abide the surgeon's scalpel to save our own lives, out loved ones' lives, but not to save a stranger's life. H has no heart, but heartless is the last thing you'd call her.
Because they're stupid, that's why. That's why everybody does everything.
I had a test on my kidneys a few weeks back and found out I have two.
As most doctors will tell you, cleansing is ridiculous. You know what's been around longer than that state-of-the-art juicer? Your kidneys. And your liver. Still, the cleanse has recalibrated my definition of a splurge.