thedude27 Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 After reading the few posts about returning stuff from your ex I ran accross this that make me chuckle: A New York doctor who gave his wife a kidney is suing her for $1.5 million — or the return of the vital organ — after he says she cheated on him with a physical therapist. Richard Batista, 49, is demanding the sum in the middle of a messy divorce with his now-estranged wife, who suffered kidney ailments for years before the transplant. The Long Island surgeon said he gave the gift of life to his wife in 2001, but things turned sour just two years later while she was recovering from a karate injury, the New York Post reported. His wife, 44-year-old Dawnell Batista, had an affair with her physical therapist in 2003, he said. She recovered from the knee injury, but he says her low blow has him all out of joint. "I saved her life and then to be betrayed like this is unfathomable. It's incomprehensible," he told the Post. "She engaged in an extramarital affair and refused to go to marital counseling and reconciliation." Two years after the affair began she filed for divorce, and Batista accuses her of trying to limit his access to their three children, ages 8, 11 and 14. "She slapped me with divorce papers in the operating room while I was trying to save another patient's life," he told the Post. Divorce attorney Dominic Barbara said this case was a first, and that he arranged for a medical expert to determine his client's kidney's worth. "This has never been done before in the state of New York," Barbara said. link removed This is my favorite line: " or the return of the vital organ " lol Link to comment
amtjrtcet Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 LOL... don't really blame the guy. I'd want mine back too. lol Give it to someone who's not a cheater. Link to comment
alli Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 What she did was crappy & being hurt is understandable but his request is just ridiculous. She has a low moral character but she does not literally owe him her life. Once a gift is given, it is the possession of the recipient to do with as he/she wishes. That goes for vital organs, too. I'm sure he's just stirring things up in the most effective way he could thnk of as a method of expressing his hurt... creating a problem for her like she has for him. Link to comment
Mythical_Suicide Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 Wow some people are ridiculous. Yea what she did was wrong but geez he is going WAY too far. Link to comment
NowandZen Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 I'm no expert on divorce, but it seems to me that often the injured party wants 1) to be heard and 2) to inflict pain on the injuring party Looks like this guy hit 2 for 1 Link to comment
Scorpion Fury Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 LOL. I'd want mine back too, but I wouldn't ask for it. that's a ridiculous request, he's not gonna get it. She'll die. Link to comment
NowandZen Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 No, he won't. I think he just wanted to publicly humiliate her. The 21st century version of the scarlet letter. Link to comment
ladybug726 Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 My ex's brother went crazy about his ex girlfriend's boobs (he paid for her boob job) after they split. He felt he owned them. lol Just reminded me of it. Link to comment
alli Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 My ex's brother went crazy about his ex girlfriend's boobs (he paid for her boob job) after they split. He felt he owned them. lol Just reminded me of it. I wonder how exactly he felt he could keep them since they were attached to her.. or he wanted her to get them removed so he could keep them with himself? eww Link to comment
ladybug726 Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 I wonder how exactly he felt he could keep them since they were attached to her.. or he wanted her to get them removed so he could keep them with himself? eww Something like that. He told her no other guy could touch them because they were "his." He has more than a few screws loose. Link to comment
JadedStar Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 Funny i just watched a House episdoe last night that this reminded me of. It was a lesbian couple, one was in the hospital dying of a failing kydney (I THINK that was the organ in question) The sick one shared with the doctors that she had planned on leaving her partner...apparently the partner didn't know this and then makes the selfless decision to give one of her kidneys to save her life... Of course House being the deviant he is didn't share this about the partner wanting to leave her until after this is done, so while she is recovering from the operation he tells her, or maybe his colleague told her, i forget, about her partner's declarations and she said with a menacing evil grin "she can't leave me now, she wouldn't dare, she owes me her life"...apparently she knew about the leaving and did this to try to get her to stay... Ouch !! it was one of those things that sent goose bumps up my arms...shows some people will do crazy ass things! i know it was only a tv show, but still, people can be devious! Link to comment
jcoven02 Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 I saw that episode. I took it to mean "even if she leaves the relationship, a part of me will always be with her." Which is still creepy, but in an entirely different way. Link to comment
pumpkinmoon Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 I bet she pee'd herself when she heard that. Sorry just couldn't resist that one lol Link to comment
Mythical_Suicide Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 I remember that episode! Link to comment
alli Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 I know, I watched that one last night too! I watch House every night. Link to comment
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