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	<title>therenalunit.com &#187; Annoyances</title>
	<link>http://blog.therenalunit.com</link>
	<description>Kidney dialysis and transplant news and views</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:59:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Bloody viral infection.</title>
		<link>http://blog.therenalunit.com/2007/08/08/bloody-viral-infection/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.therenalunit.com/2007/08/08/bloody-viral-infection/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2007 05:10:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stu</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;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&#8217;m not sure what that&#8217;s all about, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s a fistula, you moron!</title>
		<link>http://blog.therenalunit.com/2007/07/23/its-a-fistula-you-moron/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.therenalunit.com/2007/07/23/its-a-fistula-you-moron/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2007 00:28:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stu</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I was at my local chicken shop last night, waiting for my order, when I couldn&#8217;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. 
&#8220;Ah, the fistula&#8221;, I thought.
I seem to almost have grown a new arm on top [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jut 48 hours</title>
		<link>http://blog.therenalunit.com/2006/11/07/jut-48-hours/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.therenalunit.com/2006/11/07/jut-48-hours/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Nov 2006 03:47:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stu</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Dialysis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Just 48 hours&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.
with no fluid restriction - mmmm that beer tasted good, I think I&#8217;ll have another
Just 48 hours&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.
With no fear of dying from potassium overdose. I think I&#8217;ll have a banana split for dessert
Just 48 hours&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..
Without worrying about phosphate - that block of cheese looks good!
Just 48 hours&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.
Without those damned needles.
Just 48 hours&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.
Not thinking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bloody Christmas</title>
		<link>http://blog.therenalunit.com/2006/10/15/bloody-christmas/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.therenalunit.com/2006/10/15/bloody-christmas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Oct 2006 07:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stu</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[kidney disease]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Dialysis]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.therenalunit.com/2006/10/15/bloody-christmas/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, we&#8217;re getting closer to another Christmas on dialysis (my fifth in a row).
After my Freaky High Potassium last Christmas, I&#8217;ve been giving some thought to boycotting Christmas altogether this year.
After having four &#8220;get-togethers&#8221; between dialysis sessions last year, it comes as no great surprise that I had a potassium high enough to hospitalise me. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And still we wait!</title>
		<link>http://blog.therenalunit.com/2006/09/17/and-still-we-wait/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.therenalunit.com/2006/09/17/and-still-we-wait/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Sep 2006 06:44:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stu</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[kidney]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[kidney disease]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;t work in the recipient. So although I was glad to have missed out on a kidney that didn&#8217;t work [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No blanket for you!</title>
		<link>http://blog.therenalunit.com/2006/07/20/no-blanket-for-you/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.therenalunit.com/2006/07/20/no-blanket-for-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jul 2006 05:04:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stu</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[renal]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Dialysis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the never ending quest to turn a profit from my misery, NephroCare Asia (Fresenius) have decided that it&#8217;s too expensive to provide a blanket to keep me warm at dialysis.
Now this wouldn&#8217;t be an issue if they didn&#8217;t insist on running my machine at 36 degrees C, but that&#8217;s a story for another day.
I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paying for organs?</title>
		<link>http://blog.therenalunit.com/2006/07/16/paying-for-organs/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.therenalunit.com/2006/07/16/paying-for-organs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jul 2006 10:28:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stu</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[transplant]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[kidney]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Dialysis In the News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s been a little bit of talk here where I live (Australia) about whether people should be able to sell their organs to those in need.
Now we have a (very) right wing conservative government here in Australia, and a frustrating thing about conservative governments is that they&#8217;re really good at forcing their religious views on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just how freaking hard is it?</title>
		<link>http://blog.therenalunit.com/2006/06/25/just-how-freaking-hard-is-it/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.therenalunit.com/2006/06/25/just-how-freaking-hard-is-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jun 2006 10:58:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stu</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
So it&#8217;s just about five months to the day since I wrote this post.
The interesting thing is, that in that time, I&#8217;ve had absolutely no visitors at dialysis, other than my wife and kids, my dad, and my younger sister. Not a single friend has found the time to visit me at dialysis, even considering [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Still waiting for my kidney  transplant</title>
		<link>http://blog.therenalunit.com/2006/04/06/still-waiting-for-my-transplant/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.therenalunit.com/2006/04/06/still-waiting-for-my-transplant/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Apr 2006 04:29:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stu</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Where the hell is my transplant?]]></description>
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		<title>Is it worth having private health insurance in Australia?</title>
		<link>http://blog.therenalunit.com/2006/02/21/is-it-worth-having-private-health-insurance-in-australia-2/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.therenalunit.com/2006/02/21/is-it-worth-having-private-health-insurance-in-australia-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2006 10:50:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stu</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Dialysis]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Annoyances]]></category>

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A little birdie contacted therenalunit.com today, suggesting that a major public hospital in an Australian capital city is in the process of inking a deal with a large (think multinational) private dialysis supplier, to send somewhere in the vicinity of twenty public patients to dialyse in a center run by the private dialysis supplier.
No only [...]]]></description>
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