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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 […]