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There’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’re really good at forcing their religious views on […]

So it’s just about five months to the day since I wrote this post.
The interesting thing is, that in that time, I’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 […]

Where the hell is my transplant?

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 […]

I call on the Federal Government of Australia and the major Health Insurance funds to consider the option of compensating live organ donors and the next of kin of deceased organ donors in an effort to increase organ donation rates. At a cost of approximately $50,000 a year to keep a patient on dialysis, a […]

Well it’s been interesting around here lately. We’ve had a heatwave here in little old Adelaide, with five days in a row of over 40 degrees celsius. (105 degress Fahrenheit) Night time minimum temperatures of around 30 celsius (86 Fahrenheit) made life even more unbearable!
This makes life interesting as a dialysis patient - whilst you […]