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Well I finally got my long-awaited transplant on the 7th of Feb.
Things are going quite well. The kidney took five days to turn on, and I’m having 1,o00 mg of prednisolone a day for three days to combat some rejection which a biopsy on Wednesday found, but we’ll get there I’m sure.
I’m very tired, and […]

Just 48 hours……….
with no fluid restriction - mmmm that beer tasted good, I think I’ll have another
Just 48 hours……….
With no fear of dying from potassium overdose. I think I’ll have a banana split for dessert
Just 48 hours………..
Without worrying about phosphate - that block of cheese looks good!
Just 48 hours……….
Without those damned needles.
Just 48 hours……….
Not thinking […]

Well, we’re getting closer to another Christmas on dialysis (my fifth in a row).
After my Freaky High Potassium last Christmas, I’ve been giving some thought to boycotting Christmas altogether this year.
After having four “get-togethers” between dialysis sessions last year, it comes as no great surprise that I had a potassium high enough to hospitalise me. […]

I had a phone call from my renal specialist the other day, letting me know that he had turned down a transplant on my behalf.
Apparently the donor was a 74 year old, and the kidney didn’t work in the recipient. So although I was glad to have missed out on a kidney that didn’t work […]

Dialysis is as boring as bat-shit - right?
We spend far too much time at the dialysis center as it is, so it might be a bit of fun to try to think of some things to do which might brighten it up a bit.
(You might want to make sure you get along pretty well with […]

I’ve had a gutfull!
I’m a sick to death of fluid and dietary restrictions. Is it too much to ask that once in a while I be able to just “let my hair down” and enjoy myself?
I have a habit, when I’m allowed the tiniest of nibbles of something I really enjoy (chocolate, almonds, beer (mmmm […]