MovieChat Forums > Steel Magnolias (1989) Discussion > y didnt Mlynn donate kidney BEFORE shelb...

y didnt Mlynn donate kidney BEFORE shelby married, got pregnant ?


Why didnt MLynn donate her kidney to Shelby BEFORE she had Jackson Jr, hell before she married. Wouldnt that have made her body stronger?
Perhaps then she wouldnt have been so strained while giving birth and later not rejected the kidney ?

reply

A spoiler alert would have been appropriate.

The pregnancy weakened her kidneys.

1. She was already pregnant, you can't have a transplant when you are pregnant.
2. If she needed a kidney transplant before getting pregnant and it had taken, she would have done just as much damage to the new kidney.
3. If her mother's kidney didn't take, it probably never would have at anytime.

reply

Why a spoiler alert for a movie made almost 30 years ago?

reply

What they said and remember, she wasn't supposed to have kids. I think it was implied that if she took it easy and didn't get pregnant she could manage her condition. But she got pregnant and still continued to work at the hospital. It was too much of a strain on her body.




if I would give you some money out of my wallet, would that ease the pain?

reply



What they said and remember, she wasn't supposed to have kids. I think it was implied that if she took it easy and didn't get pregnant she could manage her condition. But she got pregnant and still continued to work at the hospital. It was too much of a strain on her body.

Exactly.




"I'd say this cloud is Cumulo Nimbus."
"Didn't he discover America?"
"Penfold, shush."

reply

[deleted]

The drugs you take to suppress your immune system for an organ transplant cannot be taken during pregnancy.

reply