{"id":1147,"date":"2011-12-25T20:11:59","date_gmt":"2011-12-25T20:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=1147"},"modified":"2011-12-26T00:17:19","modified_gmt":"2011-12-26T00:17:19","slug":"kidney-a-memoir-written-in-third-person-by-lucas-daniel-smith-time-to-set-the-facts-straight-lucas-smith-saved-the-lives-of-two-men-in-critical-need-of-kidneys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/kidney-a-memoir-written-in-third-person-by-lucas-daniel-smith-time-to-set-the-facts-straight-lucas-smith-saved-the-lives-of-two-men-in-critical-need-of-kidneys\/","title":{"rendered":"Kidney: A Memoir Written in Third-Person.  By Lucas Daniel Smith.   (Time to set the facts straight.  Lucas Smith saved the lives of two men in critical need of kidneys.)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">On display directly below is the <\/span><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Certificate of Appreciation<\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> issued to me in honor and recognition of the priceless gift of kidney donation. Certificate was issued by the hospital (in the United States of America) where the kidney transplant surgery was conducted.\u00a0\u00a0 The certificate (non-redacted), as well as two chapters (non-redacted) from my unpublished book <\/span><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Kidney: A Memoir Written in Third-Person<\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">, are now for up auction at eBay listing<\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">140668868245 which can be accessed <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/ws\/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&amp;item=140668868245\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">here<\/span><\/strong><\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Kidney-redacted-Certificate-of-Appreciation1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1151\" title=\"Kidney redacted Certificate of Appreciation\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Kidney-redacted-Certificate-of-Appreciation1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"750\" \/><\/a><a style=\"margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; display: block; text-decoration: underline;\" title=\"View Kidney: A Memoir Written in Third-Person.  Written by Lucas Daniel Smith. on Scribd\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/76450542\/Kidney-A-Memoir-Written-in-Third-Person-Written-by-Lucas-Daniel-Smith\">Kidney: A Memoir Written in Third-Person. Written by Lucas Daniel Smith.<\/a> <object id=\"doc_16960\" style=\"outline: medium none;\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"opaque\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"document_id=76450542&amp;access_key=key-1t534ar4fsmkbjlm4tx&amp;page=1&amp;viewMode=list\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/d1.scribdassets.com\/ScribdViewer.swf\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"document_id=76450542&amp;access_key=key-1t534ar4fsmkbjlm4tx&amp;page=1&amp;viewMode=list\" \/><embed id=\"doc_16960\" style=\"outline: medium none;\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/d1.scribdassets.com\/ScribdViewer.swf\" wmode=\"opaque\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" FlashVars=\"document_id=76450542&amp;access_key=key-1t534ar4fsmkbjlm4tx&amp;page=1&amp;viewMode=list\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" flashvars=\"document_id=76450542&amp;access_key=key-1t534ar4fsmkbjlm4tx&amp;page=1&amp;viewMode=list\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Jim Wilson, Jr. received a kidney from Cedar Rapids, Iowa native Diane Langton in the year 2004.\u00a0 Diane got involved with the Wilsons in 2003 after reading about a young man, me Lucas, whose hometown was also Cedar Rapids.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Diane was taken in by the Wilson family&#8217;s slanderous and double-crossing untrue claims of having been strung along with assurance of a free and donative kidney by me, Lucas, for approximately five months before abruptly asking to be financially compensated with $600 US dollars.\u00a0 (A tale that not even the police, FBI and federal prosecutors were willing to believe).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">After reading several 2003 editions of <strong>The Gazette<\/strong> newspaper which covered the kidney fiasco Diana was motivated to counter the shame she felt had fallen on her hometown of Cedar Rapids.\u00a0 She stated that, <\/span><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;Lucas Smith is an enigma to me.\u00a0 I just know he devastated a good family for no really good reason.\u00a0 I love my city <\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">[Cedar Rapids]<\/span><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">.\u00a0 I was born here and raised here, as my husband, as were my children.\u00a0 It bothers me that something so reprehensible would be associated with my home.&#8221;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>For the record<\/strong>: Jim Wilson, Sr. and I (Lucas) entered into a financial arrangement from the outset.\u00a0 It was Jim Wilson, Sr. who proved incapable of keeping his end of the bargain, not me.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">At any rate, Jim Wilson, Jr. died in January of the year 2008, nearly four years after having taken physical receipt of life-saving kidney from Diane Langton.\u00a0 He died of heart failure and NOT kidney failure. \u00a0 Read more regarding his unfortunate death at the New York Syracuse.com<\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">article, <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.syracuse.com\/news\/2008\/01\/oswego_county_centerpiece_0116.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Good morning, Oswego County: 01\/16\/2008<\/span><\/a><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">For the record<\/span>:<\/strong>\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #000000;\">Everyone, aside from the organ donor, is allowed to make a profit from organ donations.\u00a0 The organ banks are paid, the doctors &amp; all of their\u00a0 assistants collect a fee and are paid for their services.\u00a0\u00a0 The organ recipient benefits more than probably everyone for they now have a new lease on life.<\/span>\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #000000;\">But it is a crime to give money to the donor.\u00a0\u00a0 Since donors are not paid, most all potential donors (everyone one in the world) keep their organs (kidneys included) to themselves.<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #000000;\">Thousands of US citizens die each years as they wait for their number to be called on the kidney transplant list.<\/span>\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #000000;\">It should also be noted that kidneys from living donors survive longer <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>(in their new bodies)<\/strong><\/span>, and function more effectively and efficiently <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>(in their new bodies)<\/strong><\/span>, than kidneys harvested from the recently decease<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Below I have provided additional evidence that Jim Wilson, Jr. received a kidney from Diana Langton in the year 2004.\u00a0 Five (5) scans of the March 7, 2004 Cedar Rapids newspaper, <strong>The Gazette, An Independent Newspaper In Iowa&#8217;s Technology Corridor<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Langton-ZERO.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1160\" title=\"Langton ZERO\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Langton-ZERO.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Langton-TWO.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1161\" title=\"Langton TWO\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Langton-TWO.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Langton-THREE.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1162\" title=\"Langton THREE\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Langton-THREE.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Langton-FOUR.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1163\" title=\"Langton FOUR\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Langton-FOUR.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Langton-FIVE.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1164\" title=\"Langton FIVE\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Langton-FIVE.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>MERRY CHRISTMAS!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On display directly below is the Certificate of Appreciation issued to me in honor and recognition of the priceless gift of kidney donation. Certificate was issued by the hospital (in the United States of America) where the kidney transplant surgery &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/kidney-a-memoir-written-in-third-person-by-lucas-daniel-smith-time-to-set-the-facts-straight-lucas-smith-saved-the-lives-of-two-men-in-critical-need-of-kidneys\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4,12,37,208,35],"tags":[424,430,425,13,6,44,55,22,427,432,414,16,41,56,214,433,202,97,431,58,439,42,23,409,412,411,410,413,14,415,418,435,437,416,434,436,417,136,4337,11,429,15,360,8,4338,43,420,438,426,421,423,422,419],"class_list":["post-1147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barrack-obama-eligibility","category-lucas-daniel-smith","category-obama-birth-certificate","category-paper-antiquities","category-the-government-vs-lucas-daniel-smith","tag-424","tag-430","tag-425","tag-barack-obama","tag-birth-certificate","tag-born","tag-born-in-kenya","tag-cedar-rapids","tag-cedar-rapids-gazette","tag-cedar-rapids-police","tag-certificate-of-appreciation","tag-certificate-of-birth","tag-coast-province-general-hospital","tag-cpgh","tag-ebay","tag-ebay-auction","tag-fbi","tag-hawaii","tag-hospital-kidney-donation","tag-illegal","tag-independent-newspaper-in-iowas-technology-corridor","tag-ineligible","tag-iowa","tag-jim-wilson","tag-jim-wilson-jr","tag-jim-wilson-sr","tag-jimmy-wilson","tag-jr","tag-kenya","tag-kidney","tag-kidney-book","tag-kidney-buy","tag-kidney-buyer","tag-kidney-donation","tag-kidney-sale","tag-kidney-seller","tag-kidney-a-memoir-written-in-third-person","tag-lucas-d-smith","tag-lucas-daniel-smith","tag-lucas-smith","tag-march-7","tag-mombasa","tag-new-york","tag-obama","tag-orly-taitz","tag-president","tag-scribd","tag-technology-corridor","tag-the-gazette","tag-transplant-coordinator","tag-transplant-physician","tag-transplant-surgeon","tag-written-by-lucas-daniel-smith"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1147"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27840,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147\/revisions\/27840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}