With technology on the rise and many people getting ill, sometimes they have a problem with an organ and it shuts down and needs to be replaced. This procedure is possible but organ transplants can either be miracles or disasters. After interviewing people who have either received or had a family member that received an organ donation I was able to realize the true affects they can have on the person, as well as those around them.

                One woman I interviewed was the wife of an organ recipient. A man that was interviewed was a recipient. Many others that I spoke with were also in the same situation as these two individuals. The woman was very against the thought of anyone receiving a transplant, while the man was all for it. As I spoke longer during the interview I began to realize why they had such different perspectives on a situation that seemed to be the same.

                This woman’s husband had had a kidney transplant. The kidney was placed to help his body but shut down only a week later because it had been defective. He was able to receive another kidney shortly after. The medicines he had to take for his body to accept the new kidney were “like taking a medicine to poison his body and put him in excruciating pain.” He died shortly after because the kidney had been rejected and the medicine was shutting other things down. She was left to raise her two children by herself.

                The other man had also received a kidney transplant. Although, he was lucky enough to survive through the pain and medication and his body was able to accept the organ. He was able to see his children and someday maybe his grandchildren.

                The affects of organ transplants are a big deal. Would you be willing to receive a transplant and take a horrifying medication if it were your only choice?