I know a guy who will loan you money against your kidney if you're in the rarer types, not O+ or A+.

No offense but I think he's out of his mind I'd give my kidney (kidding) for a good deal in Madison on campus as they almost all sell off market.

Now he has always had diabetes from childhood and his wife is a kidney stone factory and has to have her kidneys cleaned out every 5 years or so by operations not just treatments so they are "uninsurable" because the premiums are too much.I also took a second job and moved in so that I could put the most available funds into this family.

He was diagnosed with Renal Cell Carcinoma (Kidney cancer) on January 6th and had his left kidney and grapefruit sized tumor removed on January 8th.

I even hired our own caregivers to be with my mother when she was in the hospital to make sure they fed her the right food regarding her kidney disease, to help her find her favorite show on the TV, and to visit.

Even for all I did right then, I did so much wrong, I did let much of that fear creep in and held back on deals that I would give a kidney to get a shot at today.

I am 64 years, overweight, have diabetes, high blood pressure and only one kidney.

He first said he was a cash buyer, then the story turned into his bank needed an appraisal - this is a distressed property so no bank will loan on it and it's only $60k, then he had kidney stones. . .yada, yada.

Seriously - worry about the anti-competitive / price fixing behavior & you'll be able to afford the *good* equipment without selling a kidney.

Maybe that is the wave of the future, or drugs that prevent kidney failure, etc.