No worries, Ralph would never qualify as a transplant candidate even if he needed one. Things like high blood pressure, smoking, drinking, lots of obesity related health conditions, drug use, non-compliance of doctorās orders, etc⦠are immediate disqualifications for even being considered for a spot on a transplant wait list.
You basically have to be a very compliant, healthy (except for the failing organ and the issues it causes), person who the doctors have seen a track record of strict medically compliance because it will be required for the rest of their lives after the transplant. Once you get a new organ you are on a litany of anti-rejection medications and must follow strict guidelines to survive. They will not waste an extremely valuable donated organ on some dirtbag that canāt even bother to follow health advice before a transplant.
Iām a healthy person with low BMI but even I would sweat facing the criteria needed to qualify for an organ transplant. Any and all vices, even oneās responsibly and occasionally indulged in, would have to cease immediately and forever. Doctors do testing for months so they have evidence you follow their orders to the letter, because you have to be 100% compliant after a transplant. āTrust me bro Iāll be a good boy after the transplantā does not cut it. There are thousands of people following every medical tiny dictate to the letter, for years, that will die waiting for a new kidney, heart or liverā¦they arenāt going to waste one of those badly needed organs on some ODD asshole.