Trading Daylight

It's a quarter to one in the morning and I can't sleep. I was warned this would happen. I lie there and can hear the blood in my veins as it rushes about my head. My sinuses are blocked so I can't breathe properly and when I do sleep - an exhausted, fidgety sleep - … Continue reading Trading Daylight →

I Made the List; Time to Start Again

Today I had some news; I have finally been placed on the transplant list! This means that, following my impromptu heart operation, I have been given the all-clear for transplant. Most of you will know that my Mum has been matched as my principle living donor. She has been worked up over the course of … Continue reading I Made the List; Time to Start Again →

I’m Abnormal! Who Knew?!

Some of you may no doubt have picked up from a previous blog that, not content with kidney failure and a long-standing diagnosis of epilepsy, the doctors thought it timely to diagnose me with a heart problem. Accordingly, I spent much of yesterday at the UHNM wired up to various machines and being quizzed by … Continue reading I’m Abnormal! Who Knew?! →

Time To Start a Bucket List

Yesterday I visited the surgeon at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham and talked transplants. Typically, the NHS system in Stoke does not talk to the system in Birmingham, so there was a lot of repetition; information, questions, blood tests, talk of what will happen and possible consequences, but the upshot of the meeting was overwhelmingly … Continue reading Time To Start a Bucket List →

Strategy and Pressure Points

I’m still tired. Race to the Stones took more out of me than I was prepared to give, but when you’re up on the ridge you have no option but to dig deep. I put my trail shoes on the other day and those pressure points around my ankles were still painful a month on. … Continue reading Strategy and Pressure Points →

Yikes! Please Sponsor Us!

Yikes! Please Sponsor Us! 100km Race to the Stones for #TeamKidney

Thank You for the Likes

In my last blog I broke the taboo and rather than being exiled, my calls were answered. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Stafford Half: Harder Than Anticipated

I am very fond of the Stafford Half Marathon, but the 2019 event was harder than I had anticipated...

You sure running is good for you?

There appears to be some kind of peculiar (but not uncommon) notion that strenuous exercise is somehow bad for us.. but exercise is always good! Recovery over survival... #TeamKidney

Have a salad and form an orderly queue…

So it's happening, I am to be referred for dialysis and a kidney transplant. Have a salad and form an orderly queue. #TeamKidney