The Kidney Machine
Valleri Glover
It’s twenty years in the future, and I am now a respected professional. The local hospital is having financial troubles, and I have been appointed to a committee. I have to make a choice, to pick one person out of eight applicants who gets to use a kidney machine. Out of the eight applicants, one strikes me as the most deserving, a twelve year old boy. Bobby Brainy is the most deserving of this machine.
Bobby Brainy deserves this machine for several reasons. He’s the youngest of the applicants, so he has more of a future than the others. He hasn’t done anything to cause his kidney disease, not to mention he is still a child. While the other applicants are much older than him, and some have even caused their …show more content…
Bobby would have to go to a dialysis clinic almost three times a week, which for any boy who would go through that would greatly lack friends at school since he is barely there. Another thing to take in to consideration is that he could have skipped a few grades due to him being a child prodigy. The greater age difference could make it harder for him to make friends, or even the fact that he just doesn’t have anything in common with them. Also, if Bobby is high up on the donor list for a new kidney, he can give the machine back to the hospital, and another applicant can use it. He won’t need it for long, unlike the other applicants.
He needs this machine for several reasons. Obviously, he has a kidney disease of some sort, and we can assume he is also on a waiting list for a donor. He needs this machine specifically because dialysis is cutting into his school affairs, and probably his free time as well. Maybe even his friendships. He wouldn’t be suitable for the alternate Peritoneal Dialysis since most children his age and below couldn’t tolerate it. So this kidney machine is his last hope, unless he wants to spend the rest of his life in a dialysis clinic three times a week, depriving him of valuable educational information and social
Valleri Glover
It’s twenty years in the future, and I am now a respected professional. The local hospital is having financial troubles, and I have been appointed to a committee. I have to make a choice, to pick one person out of eight applicants who gets to use a kidney machine. Out of the eight applicants, one strikes me as the most deserving, a twelve year old boy. Bobby Brainy is the most deserving of this machine.
Bobby Brainy deserves this machine for several reasons. He’s the youngest of the applicants, so he has more of a future than the others. He hasn’t done anything to cause his kidney disease, not to mention he is still a child. While the other applicants are much older than him, and some have even caused their …show more content…
Bobby would have to go to a dialysis clinic almost three times a week, which for any boy who would go through that would greatly lack friends at school since he is barely there. Another thing to take in to consideration is that he could have skipped a few grades due to him being a child prodigy. The greater age difference could make it harder for him to make friends, or even the fact that he just doesn’t have anything in common with them. Also, if Bobby is high up on the donor list for a new kidney, he can give the machine back to the hospital, and another applicant can use it. He won’t need it for long, unlike the other applicants.
He needs this machine for several reasons. Obviously, he has a kidney disease of some sort, and we can assume he is also on a waiting list for a donor. He needs this machine specifically because dialysis is cutting into his school affairs, and probably his free time as well. Maybe even his friendships. He wouldn’t be suitable for the alternate Peritoneal Dialysis since most children his age and below couldn’t tolerate it. So this kidney machine is his last hope, unless he wants to spend the rest of his life in a dialysis clinic three times a week, depriving him of valuable educational information and social