Month +8: People sometimes ask me why I run. I always ask them why they don’t?
Tag: kidney
Month +7: On Friendship
A friend is one of the nicest things to have, and one of the best things you can be.
Month +6: Who’s With Me?
+6 Months: It's been 6 months to the day since I received my transplant and I still feel like the luckiest man alive...
Day 157: Don’t Give Up
2020: Best Year of My Life - What can I say, it's been one hell of a year.
Month +4: So This is Recovery?
+4 Months: For most people, when you say you're recovering from something, they typically think of you returning to normal, or at least to how you were before you got sick. But in reality there is no going back. You don't so much recover as reinvent yourself as you adapt to the person you have since become.
Day +107: Helter-Skelter
Helter-Skelter: I started writing this on World Mental health Day (10th October) and over a month later I am still struggling to put it into words, such is the sensitivity of the matter. These may not be the right words in the right order but I hope you get the gist.
Day +98: Sorry I Forgot…
They say that you don't realise how sick you are until you try to recover. Now I don't know who they are but they make a damn good point. Recovering from this transplant is both an enforced period of rest, as well as an opportunity to do some serious reflection, but the thing is, I can't remember.
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.
Week +12: Slow Return
It's been a very slow and uncomfortable couple of weeks. I didn't blog last week as I really didn't have a lot to say. I discovered that at this stage of recovery, it doesn't take much discomfort to for it to become a constant and all-consuming distraction. It took me to a place I wasn't overly happy in and the best thing I could do was sit quietly and wait patiently.
Week +10: A Short One
Week +10: This has been a bit of a crummy week as on Wednesday, something that first afflicted me in hospital made a painful and unwelcome reappearance.
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