Review: What would you do?
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 12, 2012
What if your young son, the light of your life, was seriously ill?  What if he suffered from a rare disease and required a liver transplant?  And what if you had played the transplant list waiting game?  Only to find the perfect donor who with further testing was not so perfect?  Or the perfect donor who changes his mind at the last minute?  And what if the doctors said your son needed that transplant within 36 hours or he would die?How far would you go to ensure your son gets the life-saving transplant he needs?  Would you go so far as to kill the perfect donor?  If it was required, would be willing to commit suicide?  Just what would you do to save the life of your only son?  Where would you draw the line?These are the questions the short story Organ Traffic by author Kay Glass asks.  Andy is a young boy of six years of age.  He suffers from Alpha-1 ATD, a rare incurable disease which affects the liver.  Andy has deteriorated to the point where a partial liver transplant is his only hope.  And he is declining so fast he needs the transplant within hours.  Andy's mother knows who one of the potential donors is.  She needs only a small piece of his liver, and she can save her son's life.  Now, all she needs is to figure out how to get it.Organ Traffic is an enjoyable short read.  Partway through the story I was 100% sure I knew how it would end.  Then author Glass threw me a curve, and I wasn't even close.  I always enjoy short, tightly written fiction which sometimes take you places you don't expect.  This is a good example of how it is properly done.