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One of the highest acts of altruism is donating an organ. Just think about it: you’re giving away something that’s extremely important and personal to you in order to help someone else lead a better life. Just live, if that’s all you can manage. Isn’t this something that should be applauded and thanked for?
Unfortunately, this is not always the case. We live in an imperfect world, so don’t forget that. Then there was the incident of Colleen Le and her decision to donate a kidney to her boyfriend, who was in dire need. This whole ordeal didn’t stop him from cheating on her, despite the fact that he was her ex-boyfriend.
Organ donation is one of the most humanitarian things someone can do, so you’d expect thanks, right?
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Meet Colleen Le, a 30-year-old Californian from Yorba Linda who Bored Panda managed to contact. With the tagline “happy my lover gets another chance at life after receiving my kidney,” Colleen just posted an amusing video on YouTube. The last-second video has a shocking plot twist: Colleen is shown lying on her back on the bed with the comment, “cheats on me.” Oof.
What we need to do is rewind. Colleen met a guy in 2015 who she liked and found out he needed a kidney right away. I’m in desperate need of a new kidney, as in working at only 5 percent of my potential. So, as you might imagine, the clock was ticking.
This woman’s partner cheated on her after she gave a kidney to him.
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Colleen was forced to make the difficult decision to donate one of her kidneys in order to help him out. The only thing he ever did was encourage her to go on with her plans; he never forced her to do anything. The fact that I could see him struggling on his own was a deciding factor.
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As a result, things returned to normal for the two of them after they underwent surgery. Isn’t that the case? Wrong. Later, she had an unexpected visit from her boyfriend, who confessed to her that he had been cheating on her.
Considering she gave him a second chance and that he was a devout Christian, this doesn’t look good at all. As a result, Colleen decided to give their relationship another go. It’s hard for her to imagine how this could have worked out in the long run, though.
The story goes that Colleen met a guy who was in desperate need of a kidney transplant as he was working at just 5% capacity
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It wasn’t long before they got into a fight. The boyfriend advised taking a breather and reading some scripture together throughout the commotion. In Colleen’s opinion, this was a no-brainer. She preferred to speak things out.
To which he said, “If God wants us to be together, then there is no reason why we can’t find our way back together.” And he immediately barred her on social media and in all other aspects of her life.
It was excruciating. all around the board.
After long consideration, she ended up going under the knife for him, and life went back to normal when, after a bachelor party, he confessed that he had been unfaithful
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Even though she had given him a piece of herself, he didn’t seem to have any difficulty severing ties and moving on.
His attempt to sneak back into her life after months of no contact backfired. The celebration took place on the same day as the one-year anniversary of the kidney transplant. Her impression was that he had contacted her out of remorse and nothing else.
Despite all of this, she has no regrets about saving his life in this way.
Even though the relationship didn’t work out, Colleen doesn’t feel bad about it because she saved a life
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A TikTok part of her narrative recently gained a lot of attention. With over 11 million views and 2.8 million likes, her most recent video recounting this life event has been extremely popular. More than 170,000 people watched her videos that explained what was going on and answered questions.
At some point in the midst of this, she offered her thoughts on the situation, saying how her ex managed to state that she was just trying to look beautiful and how bizarre it is that her kidney is now in that of the person she used to love. “No regrets, though,” read the caption on one of the videos that appeared on YouTube.
The fallout did include her boyfriend blaming her for doing all of this just to look good, but she denied it
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Colleen told Bored Panda that she first downloaded the TikTok app at the start of the epidemic in 2020 and noticed people submitting tragic stories on her For You Page.
So when her story went viral, she was shocked: “I didn’t expect such heartfelt responses and all the love and support I’ve been receiving from strangers all around the world.” It was daunting at first, but I realized that by throwing light on a traumatizing incident, I was providing hope to others who needed it. “
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People on the internet had a wide range of opinions on this, with the most common being that she should demand the kidney be returned. This is not, however, an LCD TV that you can return due to the mayhem of Black Friday shoppers scratching it. If you know what I mean,
The other group of people made fun of the guy’s bravado and joked about how he’d always have a piece of her in him. Others, on the other hand, thought she was a saint because she didn’t apologize for what she did.
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Forgiveness and forgetting were important to Colleen. She admitted that accepting everything and moving on was difficult for her, but she wasn’t alone: “My family and friends were very supportive of my decision to give.” They were more concerned about my future health than anything else. After learning that he had cheated on me, they were enraged. It was their opinion that I deserved greater consideration. ” The sentiment was shared by a large portion of the internet.
Here’s the now-viral video that garnered over 11M views with 2.8M likes
