Kingston family's ordeal: father can donate liver to only one of two sick daughters

[shenmue]

Story here

An Ontario father has found that two of his daughters have a rare liver condition - and his liver donation would only be able to help one of them.

[targetpractice]

1. The liver is quite resilient... Can he split his donation?

Wonder if he's saving part for himself? Such a sad story, but they are such beautiful offspring.

Totally a hypothetical scenario for me, but I think I'd go all in for twin daughters.

Forgive the late night uninhibited thinking.

[laundry_queen]

3. Apparently not

In the news today they said the amount of liver they take for living donations is already so tiny, there's no way they could take more without grave risk to the father and there's no way they can split it and have it still be a viable replacement.

Apparently, they are planning to use it for the twin that is sickest. The other will go on a transplant list. The father doesn't get to decide.

Interestingly, these twins were adopted from Vietnam (they were sick from birth). The parents and medical teams were quite surprised to learn the father was a perfect match considering he isn't a blood relative. Pretty astounding coincidence I think.

[Hoppy]

2. Kind of a version of Sophie's Choice