The Harder Question: Your teenager is in need of a kidney transplant, and fortunately you and your teen’s other parent are both viable donors. You and his/her other parent decide it will be the other parent who gives your teenager the kidney, and the operation is performed successfully. The doctors give your teenager instructions about being very careful to take his/her anti-rejection medications as instructed or the kidney will fail.

For several weeks, your teen does really well with following the doctor’s instructions, but after awhile your teen doesn’t think he/she needs the medication, so he/she stops taking it regularly. Eventually, your teen stops taking the medication all together. You notice your teen is getting sicker and sicker, and every time you ask if he/she is taking the anti-rejection medicine as instructed, he/she tells you yes.

You come home from work to find  your teen passed out on the floor of the kitchen and non-responsive. You call for an ambulance, and you all are rushed to the hospital. After several tense hours, your teen’s doctor comes out to tell you and your teen’s other parent that he/she is going into kidney failure again, because he/she hasn’t been taking his/her anti-rejection medication. The doctor tells you all that another transplant is going to be necessary, because the first transplanted kidney is no longer viable.

What do you do?

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My Question of the Day: You know someone on whom you can count through thick and thin, but he/she has one character flaw that you find absolutely annoying. He/she always exaggerates the truth. The tales are so far-fetched that you believe no other reasonable person would believe what he/she is saying, but this person seems absolutely convinced that what he/she is telling you is the truth. Despite that one, very annoying flaw, however, this person has never failed to be around when you needed someone in good times and in bad times. Is this a person you keep in your life?

My 2 Cents: I abhor when people exaggerate the truth. It’s usually not necessary and adds no value to the conversation at hand.

If this is someone on whom I can totally depend, this is definitely a person I would keep in my life, as long as he/she doesn’t have a problem with me saying, “I don’t believe you,” when I think he/she is embellishing the facts. If he/she can handle that, I can deal with the tall tales.

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Take a few moments to check out the tweets from Twitter on this subject:

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JoshDamage that is a person I totally keep around…dependable ppl are hard to find in life. I wud just deal with that quirk.

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