Day +251: Welcome To Your (Post-Transplant) Life - So what is life like actually as a transplant patient?
Tag: Dialysis
Day 157: Don’t Give Up
2020: Best Year of My Life - What can I say, it's been one hell of a year.
Day +88: A Day In The Life
There are many unusual happenings in the life of a kidney patientThese happenings do not end with transplant, you simply move from a DVD to Netflix and the comedy show continues. Like this afternoon when I got a pain in my arm and was sent to A&E for emergency scans and a series of injections.
Day +5: Drugs and Blessed Relief
My life had already irrevocably changed for the better, but there was a lot of information still to take in. The staff knew it was front-loading their patients and to take it easy by drip feeding the essential aspects of their care that was to be self-administered. The Doctor warned me that I was now a very different beast from the one that entered hospital seven days earlier and that it would take some getting used to.
Day -1: Everything Changes
I am attempting to record my personal experience of kidney transplant in these pages. Memories fade but I am hoping that this will serve as a record of the events as they unfolded for me. It's been a surreal couple of weeks and my life has changed forever as a result.
Update: Fistula Formation
After a very strange and subdued COVID-19 spring, yesterday I was admitted to hospital for an operation to have a dialysis fistula formed in my arm.
Coming Home
Today I started my new routine of dialysis from the comfort of my own home. Frequent dialysis is better dialysis, however the treatment provided at the kidney unit really is the minimum they can get away with; roughly the equivalent of a single kidney working at about 5% capacity. Since lockdown I had been receiving … Continue reading Coming Home
Preparing For The Long Run
Perhaps the Dali Lama was right when he said that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck? #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
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