Nick Mangold is very ill

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  1. papapump

    papapump Well-Known Member

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    I meant Nick
     
  2. Brook!

    Brook! Soft Admin...2018 Friendliest Member Award Winner

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    I have a liver disease and regardless of what I do, my liver will deteriorate and later in life I will be in the list waiting for a liver transplant. Due to my disease I can't donate any organs. But my wife and kids all have organ donor on their licenses.

    Nick is a great Jet but also a neighbor for me. A great father a great family man. I read his plea with a heavy heart. May God bless him to his family.
     
  3. Jets OG fan

    Jets OG fan Well-Known Member

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    Terrible news. I hope he gets a kidney!
     
  4. Poeman

    Poeman Well-Known Member

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    Wishing him well!
     
  5. Faux machine

    Faux machine Well-Known Member

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    I just got back into riding motorcycles this year, obviously I’m an organ donor. Take what you need and burn the rest. I’m not coming back as a zombie. Mangold has always been one of my favorite Jets. Inshallah, he’ll get what he needs.
     
  6. sackexchange

    sackexchange Well-Known Member

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    What's his blood type? One of us fans needs to step up! We all bleed green here.
     
  7. Borat

    Borat Well-Known Member

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    "Unfortunately, I do not have any family able to donate at this time, so this is why I’m reaching out to you, our NY Jets community. I am in need of a kidney donor with type O blood.
    If you are willing to find out if you could be a match and donate a kidney to me please go to this site https://columbiasurgery.org/kidney-transplant and click the link I WANT TO DONATE MY KIDNEY. Use my full name, Nicholas Mangold, and my birthday, 1/13/1984. I am deeply grateful to anyone that would consider donating."
     
  8. Ralebird

    Ralebird Well-Known Member

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    Jets fans have been bleeding for so long they probably wouldn't qualify.
     
  9. jetophile

    jetophile Bruce Coslet's Daughter

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    Things have changed dramatically as far as people buying their way to the top of the list, but is there still "politics"? I would say more "grayly legal". The last time something blatant happened was David Crosby, although how blatant it actually was still gets bandied about in the Transplant Community, and here's why.

    When David Crosby got a liver transplant, almost all states were not giving livers to addicts and drinkers because of the high rate of recidivism. That is a recent development. It's only been about 10 years now that they'll give a healthy liver to a dying person with self-inflicted liver failure, an act of compassion with mixed results.

    Add to that that since then there has been a huge development in liver transplantation that has ramped up the availability of organs: Hep C livers. You heard me right. As long as the recipient has never had Hep C and the Hep C+ donor has never been treated for it, there ya go.

    We moved my dying POS BIL from NC to NY because his chances were far better here. The rules to get on the wait list in NC were far more stringent and took about 2 years. His MELD score was awful, but still no go. He didn't have 2 years. He had about 6 months.

    We got him up here in early Feb 2022, and he got a liver @ WCMC on June 10th, 2022. He was so critical that one more day and they would have refused him. Anyway, he got a Hep C+ liver from an otherwise healthy 25 year old, and then they cured him of Hep C with a new drug called Mavyret. $33,000 a dose for 3 months. You didn't read that incorrectly.

    @Brook! , just so you know, typing for a match for a liver with a blood relative is higher than gen pop. You should look into that. A donation from a living donor is possible, just like with a kidney, but unlike a kidney, they take a portion of the donor's liver. It regenerates and grows back to a full size liver in the donor, and the donated portion does the same in the recipient.

    So back to David Crosby . . . Phil Collins "bought" him a liver, depending on who you talk to. Phil Collins even admits it, with the caveat of, "It's complicated. He didn't have the money for the surgery." OK. :rolleyes: And Mickey Mantle?! He got a liver because he was Mickey Mantle, AND he had uncontained liver cancer, which is a disqualifier. So . . . yeah.
     
    #29 jetophile, Oct 22, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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