what would you do?

[senco78]

Archie's kidney transplant statement brought this back into my mind... I had forgot about it since Friday.
back story:
my youngest son was born with 1 kidney w/ complications. we go for checkups every 4 months and the last 1 was Friday.
Everything was alright except the kidney isn't growing like it should to make up for the missing kidney.
Anyway, the doc's been telling me since he was born that he cant play sports for fear of a blow to the kidney...

Everytime I see the doc I'm questioning this. But he stands by his " no sports" BS but says he can play baseball, swimming, blajh, blah... I'm thinking theres just as much chance of taking a blow to the kidney while playing baseball as there is playing football, and basketball.

maybe I'm hardheaded but I'm thinking I'll get him a flap jacket for football and let him play. How can you tell him he cant play sports but watch his brother playing? He's about to be the age to start and I dont know if I can keep him out of sports.

realistically theres probally just as much chance dieing in a car crash as there is from a freak accident in sports....


So what would you do?
make him grow up w/out sports or go agaisnt the docs order and let him play/enjoy the experiences and life lessons that playing sports teaches.

 

[Matty]

Isn't baseball a sport?

 

[senco78]

exactly Matty, but he seems to think theres no risk with baseball

 

[Bread]

Way too heavy a question for me to weigh in on. Good luck with your decision though.

 

[Archie]

ah that is tough......

I would think football would be the most dangerous....

its apples and oranges, but didn't Sean Elliot and Alonzo Mourning play with 1 kidney?

I was gonna donate a kidney to my older brother, who has diabetes a few years back. I was the best match in the family. He was on Dialysis for about a year, but he refused to take any of our kidneys...

he ended up getting two kidneys AND pancreas (so he no longer has diabetes, no more insulin!) 2 years ago.

I then found out that my kidneys are getting bad...

but I digress....

I tend to side with the Doctor's Caution on this one.... although i'm sure alot of what he is saying is just to cover his ass and liability if not in a professional sense, his conscious??

can you give him one of your good kidneys?

 

[Matty]

I mean, have him play baseball if the doc says it's okay. Not sure about basketball, but football does seem pretty effin risky for your lil dude.

 

[Archie]

he can play like non contact "sports" right?


is the main risk, the potential damage to the one healthy kidney? which is rare...

but something like Track, Cycling, rhythmic gymnastics, ballet, tap dancing, swimming would be ok right?

 

[senco78]

ah that is tough......

I would think football would be the most dangerous....

its apples and oranges, but didn't Sean Elliot and Alonzo Mourning play with 1 kidney?

I was gonna donate a kidney to my older brother, who has diabetes a few years back. I was the best match in the family. He was on Dialysis for about a year, but he refused to take any of our kidneys...

he ended up getting two kidneys AND pancreas (so he no longer has diabetes, no more insulin!) 2 years ago.

I then found out that my kidneys are getting bad...

but I digress....

I tend to side with the Doctor's Caution on this one.... although i'm sure alot of what he is saying is just to cover his ass and liability if not in a professional sense, his conscious??

can you give him one of your good kidneys?

yea, I can if the need arises..

my theory is a flap jacket like QBs where protects the kidneys.
I played basketball since I was a kid and never once took a shot to the kidney.. bloody noses, etc.. yea...

baseball... what about getting beamed with a pitch, seems more likely than any other sport

 

[Blitty]

I never hear about kidney injuries in hockey. Lots of padding from the pants in that area.

 

[senco78]

he can play like non contact "sports" right?


is the main risk, the potential damage to the one healthy kidney? which is rare...

but something like Track, Cycling, rhythmic gymnastics, ballet, tap dancing, swimming would be ok right?

right, doc says the kidney should grow about twice the size as normal to make up for the missing one... although it isnt yet

if the 1 kidney was injured, he'd need dialysis or a transplant

and I wont put him in gymnastics, ballet , or tapdancing


what about just riding bikes, skateboarding, etc...

theres freak accidents in everything that could cause harm

 

[Archie]

baseball you can also have violent un-protected collisons in the field and basepaths...

freak shit happens... never known of a kidney injury, but I knew a guy at age 14 that fell running to field a bunt and somehow ruptured his spleen... so I don't know

I have a feeling that the likely hood of an injury would be like .0001%

but everyone is gonna tell him to err on the side of caution

I

 

[senco78]

I never hear about kidney injuries in hockey. Lots of padding from the pants in that area.

theres no where to play hockey here Blit, and I wouldnt have a clue how to teach him
I cant even skate on roller skates

 

[Matty]

Golf? S'not really a sport, but it's a form of competition.

 

[Blitty]

Yea I was gonna ask if you had any roller/ice rinks near you..

That's a tough question, senco. There are so many sports out there, not sure if it's worth the risk doing the ones that aren't recommended.

 

[Matty]

I agree with the Blitt.

 

[Archie]

Golf? S'not really a sport, but it's a form of competition.

you want a Semantics and Operational Definition War?

 

[Matty]

you want a Semantics and Operational Definition War?

I kinda do, yeah.

:bringit:

 

[senco78]

Golf? S'not really a sport, but it's a form of competition.

is an expensive ass sport if you dont live on a golf course