I lied about the severity of my illness to get a kidney transplant faster

I am a 34 year old guy with Polycystic Kidney Disease. The illness slowly ruins your kidneys. I was diagnosed when I was 22 and was told I’d likely need dialysis and transplant in my 50s or 60s if I was lucky. I also have aneurysms in my brain so I was told there was a chance they’d burst and kill me before I got to kidney failure.<br><br>Fast forward 10 years. My kidneys were working at around 30% functionality. I was told I had maybe a few years tops. I was told by my doctor that I should be getting on the transplant list. I was told that the waiting list was at least 5 more years. I looked into getting a living donor. No family members were a match. All of my friends said they’d get tested but then never did. I was informed that it can take several months if not over a year for someone to be tested. My doctor told me that he was going to mark me as a “high emergency case” when he put me on the waiting list. I asked him if he could mark me as an emergency case. He laughed and said he could but that would actually be years sooner than high emergency. I asked him the criteria for making me an emergency case. He told me that I would have to be in danger of dying within months without a transplant. I then jokingly told him to write that down. He did. I went home. I then called him back and asked him if it would be unprofessional of me to take a photo of that paperwork for my records. I took a photo of that paperwork. I then went to a different doctor and had him put me on a different transplant list. I showed him the paperwork from my other doctor. He said he won’t evaluate me since he doesn’t want to disagree with my other doctor. He said he trusts the other doctor and that he won’t question him. I then went to a couple more doctors. All of them trusted the paperwork that my previous doctor wrote. All of them put me on the list with the understanding that I could die at any time if I don’t get a transplant soon. All of them were in different states. <br><br>Over the next two years that I was on the list, I was called multiple times to see if I was still interested in getting a transplant when a donor kidney became available. This happened at least 20 times. Each time I said yes. Each time I went to the hospital and they told me it was a false alarm. They then told me that I wasn’t getting a transplant because my kidneys weren’t in bad enough shape. They told me they were giving the kidney to someone else who needed it worse than me. I told them that my kidneys were in horrible shape. I showed them the paperwork. They told me that the numbers don’t lie. Even though I was on multiple transplant lists and had been called around 20 times, I still haven’t gotten a transplant. I still don’t have one. Every time I was called, I felt guilty. I didn’t take a kidney from anyone but I felt like I was taking a kidney from someone who needed it sooner. <br><br>I still don’t have a transplant. However, my kidneys work at around 14% functionality now.