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Saving the lives of children & adults in the developing world

~DF~ — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:40:05 +0000

UK Charity – Living Kidney Transplants in the Developing World I have been brought up with the NHS and have taken it for granted that health care will always be there for me. If someone in the UK has kidney failure there is dialysis or kidney transplant. In developing countries kidney failure can go undiagnosed and therefore [...]

I’m still here!

~DF~ — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:59:51 +0000

I have had a couple of people contact me wondering what is happening as my blog seems to have strayed away from the kidney donation evaluation process. Everything is fine and if you wish to know what has happened so far with the evaluation then you just have to scroll down some to see earlier posts. [...]

World Kidney Day 11 March 2010

~DF~ — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 07:39:33 +0000

World Kidney Day UK World Kidney Day International …. .

Research project on Altruistic Living Kidney Donation – participants for interview needed

~DF~ — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 13:42:31 +0000

I have been contacted by Annika Hambilton who is a student researcher at the University of Birmingham and she is currently doing a degree in Healthcare ethics and is conducting a research project on altruistic living kidney donation in the UK. She has asked if I will post her request here to see if any [...]

Home PD Dialysis – not always easy

~DF~ — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 08:01:13 +0000

Home Dialysis – not always a picnic! Home dialysis has great advantages over hospital dialysis. With hospital dialysis generally one goes about three times a week and each session lasts 3 – 4 hours. Not every hospital can do dialysis so ofter the person has to travel very long distances each time. The whole day can [...]

Kidney patients travelling in the Snow

~DF~ — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:05:50 +0000

Dialysis/Transplant Patients - Getting to the Hospital How is everyone coping in the snow? I really feel for people who have to go to hospital for dialysis. I know a lot of people live many miles from the hospital and in this snowy weather, travelling must have been really difficult. I hope you are all coping. Anyone booked [...]

Kidney Donation on hold

~DF~ — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:40:53 +0000

Just thought I would post to update people. My evaluation tests have finished and as far as I am aware they are all okay. I have to see the consultant and independant assessor before approval is sought from the HTA. However once approval is given (assuming it will be!) and I am put on the donor [...]

CT Scan on Kidneys

~DF~ — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:44:50 +0000

The kidney CT Scan appointment only took 30 mins and I was in and out in a jiffy. I had to make sure I was not wearing anything metal so necklace and bra came off. Trousers stayed on as elasticated instead of zipped. So wearing t-shirt and trousers I lay down on the CT Scanner bed. It was [...]

CT Angiogram Renal/Abdominal

~DF~ — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:32:57 +0000

CT Scan now booked – 28th October 2009 CT stands for Computerised Tomography. This will be in the Radiology Department. The CT Scanner is a machine that takes detailed slice-type pictures of the body using x-rays and a computer. Instead of sending out a single X-ray through your body as with ordinary X-rays, several beams are sent [...]

Kidney CT Scan

~DF~ — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:50:33 +0000

Tues, 6th October Kidney Donation Final Stages I thought I had finished all the physical tests but apparently there is a CT scan of the kidneys still required. The CT scan will show the veins and arteries leading to and from the kidneys. It will show everything in much greater details. It takes about an hour and [...]