therenalunit.com

The Renal Unit Website has undergone a complete facelift, adding new features which I think renal patients and carers will find useful
So what’s new?

A smooth new look
It now pulls in blog feeds from lots of renal bloggers onto the home page so you can keep up to date with all the renal bloggers. If you […]

Check it out!
The new renal blogs page, updated every hour with the latest posts from people blogging about dialysis, renal transplants, ESRD, and everything in between.
See it in action at http://therenalunit.com/renalblogs.php, bookmark it, and visit it often.
Got a blog about your experiences with ESRD that’s not on the list? Send me an email at stuart@therenalunit.com, […]

So it’s more than six months since I received my wonderful new kidney.
….and I haven’t been back to the dialysis centre to clean out my locker, much less visit the people I spent so much time with there.
What’s up with that?
My wife keeps nagging me to go back and visit the people I dialysed with. […]

It would appear that the viral infection I was fighting was the dreaded Influenza A.
No wonder I felt so bloody dreadful!
One thing I did find interesting is that, even during Influenza season here in Australia, and even though I’m an immunosuppressed renal transplant recipient, influenza test are only done weekly here in Adelaide.
Wierd.

I’ve been down with a viral infection bug type tbhing the last couple of weeks. Spiking temperatures up to 39.5 degrees celsius, generally feeling like shit.
The wierd thing is that all my bloods are good, except my haemoglobin has dropped by over 20 points from 155 to 132. I’m not sure what that’s all about, […]

I was at my local chicken shop last night, waiting for my order, when I couldn’t help but feel someone was watching me.
As I scanned the room , I noticed a man, about 50 years old, staring at my arm.
“Ah, the fistula”, I thought.
I seem to almost have grown a new arm on top […]