For the record--my mother has had her kidney for two and a half years now and is still rolling right along.

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We always laugh at how often kidney disease comes up on "Law & Order"--Jerry Orbach's character even complained about the "dialysis defense" once when a suspect said he couldn't have killed so-and-so because he was at dialysis. We think somebody on the writing team must have kidney issues. Munch is vehemently pro-organ donation; he says he figures God will give him a pass on being buried whole even though he's Jewish, if he donates his organs.