Airport pianist earns $60k in a day
UncategorizedStuck between flights in Atlanta airport, Carlos Whittaker of Nashville got talking to the waiting-area pianist, known as Tonee.
Turns out he’s a nightly dialysis patient who plays the airport every day.
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Carlos, an Instagram ‘influencer’ with 200,000 followers, posted Tonee’s story online. Donations reached $10,000 in an hour, $60,000 in a day.
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9 hours of dialysis… every day? Is that new?
I’ve known three people on dialysis. They were doing it three times a week.
At-home peritoneal dialysis is typically done every night for eight or nine hours.
Perhaps he’s doing peritoneal dialysis?
https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/peritoneal-dialysis/about/pac-20384725
https://aakp.org/the-facts-of-peritoneal-dialysis/
From a medical expert: “You will need dialysis treatment anywhere from a few times a week to several times daily, depending on the method prescribed. Conventional hemodialysis requires visits to a clinic three times a week. Daily hemodialysis means more frequent treatment sessions, about six a week, for shorter periods of time. If you opt for peritoneal dialysis, which is done at home, you will need to infuse and drain fluids anywhere from twice a day to several times a day, depending on the technique.”
Source:
https://www.sharecare.com/health/dialysis/how-often-i-need-dialysis#:~:text=You%20will%20need%20dialysis%20treatment%20anywhere%20from%20a,six%20a%20week%2C%20for%20shorter%20periods%20of%20time.
But I doubt medical facts mean anything to you. You likely consider this man a “welfare queen” type.
That’s what you took away from the article?
That is the element I had questions about.
It is totally unsurprising that an internet campaign raised a large amount of money.
I hope the links provided above helped to answer your questions.
Very cool and uplifting!
Wonderful there are some good people in this world.
This is a great story.
As a professional acquaintance of mine said to me: ‘I look around at the world and see corruption, financial and emotional, that just seems very depressing, etc etc. Then I meet individuals who choose to do something constructive which shares, which includes and gives hope……’ Here’s to individuals and societies that foster such values.
Because we live in a cruel, exploitative system that leaves millions in despair, people can go around playing “King For A Day” and do a kindness to this or that randomly chosen beneficiary, and everyone rejoices, while the rest of the neglected slip beneath the waves and drown, unnoticed. That’s what I got from this article.
Indeed. Suddenly this Carlos Whitaker is to be lauded as some great humanitarian or something? Please. The wealth disparity writ large – and not only in cash but in “followers”. From everything I can see, the pianist is the one who deserves to have the followers in this case – but then he isn’t an “influencer”. Garbage society, hollow story, and to the degree that its feel-good effect could have come from any one of a million other deserving beneficiaries, it’s arbitrary.
Nevertheless. In the heartless system within which we live, people helped make a difference for this individual.
One can make a decision to adopt the point of view that while the system is terrible, the people laboring under it are not, and take hope from that observation.
Or not.
What a guy! What a story!!