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	<title>therenalunit.com</title>
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	<description>Kidney dialysis and transplant news and views</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:59:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The all new singing, dancing Renal Unit Website</title>
		<link>http://blog.therenalunit.com/2007/11/30/the-all-new-singing-dancing-renal-unit-website/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.therenalunit.com/2007/11/30/the-all-new-singing-dancing-renal-unit-website/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:57:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stu</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Dialysis In the News]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Renal Unit Website has undergone a complete facelift, adding new features which I think renal patients and carers will find useful
So what&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Renal Blogs list</title>
		<link>http://blog.therenalunit.com/2007/11/29/new-renal-blogs-list/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.therenalunit.com/2007/11/29/new-renal-blogs-list/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 10:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stu</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[renal]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Dialysis In the News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s not on the list? Send me an email at stuart@therenalunit.com, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Six months post transplant, haven’t been back to visit dialysis</title>
		<link>http://blog.therenalunit.com/2007/08/14/six-months-post-transplant-havent-been-back-to-visit-dialysis/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.therenalunit.com/2007/08/14/six-months-post-transplant-havent-been-back-to-visit-dialysis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2007 06:53:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stu</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Dialysis]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.therenalunit.com/2007/08/14/six-months-post-transplant-havent-been-back-to-visit-dialysis/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So it&#8217;s more than six months since I received my wonderful new kidney.
&#8230;.and I haven&#8217;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&#8217;s up with that?
My wife keeps nagging me to go back and visit the people I dialysed with. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>At least we know what it was</title>
		<link>http://blog.therenalunit.com/2007/08/13/at-least-we-know-what-it-was/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.therenalunit.com/2007/08/13/at-least-we-know-what-it-was/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2007 00:34:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stu</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[transplant]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;m an immunosuppressed renal transplant recipient, influenza test are only done weekly here in Adelaide.
Wierd.
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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>
		
		<category><![CDATA[transplant]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Annoyances]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.therenalunit.com/2007/08/08/bloody-viral-infection/</guid>
		<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’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>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>

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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>Scottish doctors over-riding law with personal objections. Patients suffer</title>
		<link>http://blog.therenalunit.com/2007/07/22/scottish-doctors-over-riding-law-with-personal-objections-patients-suffer/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.therenalunit.com/2007/07/22/scottish-doctors-over-riding-law-with-personal-objections-patients-suffer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jul 2007 03:03:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stu</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[transplant]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It would seem that Scottish doctors are placing their own personal morals ahead of legislation, and patients waiting for organ transplants are suffering as a result.
New laws passed the Scottish Parliament in September 2006, allowing doctors to &#8220;take organs from donor card-carrying patients even if relatives object&#8221;, have seen medics &#8220;proved reluctant on ethical grounds [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Patients put at risk by dialysis centers closing before treatment is completed</title>
		<link>http://blog.therenalunit.com/2007/07/20/66/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.therenalunit.com/2007/07/20/66/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2007 02:29:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stu</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Dialysis In the News]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Dialysis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Patients put at risk by dialysis centers closing before treatment is completed]]></description>
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		<title>Tacrolimus level bouncing around</title>
		<link>http://blog.therenalunit.com/2007/07/19/tacrolimus-level-bouncing-around/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.therenalunit.com/2007/07/19/tacrolimus-level-bouncing-around/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2007 05:26:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stu</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[transplant]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been having some interesting results with my tacrolimus (prograf) blood levels in the last couple of weeks.
Tacrolimus is the frontline anti-rejection immunosuppressant being used to stop my shiny new (nearly six months old) kidney from rejecting.
Apparently, the level should be 10, whereas the last couple of readings have been 4.8, and then 6.
The interesting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dutch so-called reality show hikes organ donor registrations</title>
		<link>http://blog.therenalunit.com/2007/07/18/dutch-so-called-reality-show-hikes-organ-donor-registrations/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.therenalunit.com/2007/07/18/dutch-so-called-reality-show-hikes-organ-donor-registrations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 05:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stu</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[transplant]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.therenalunit.com/transplant/dutch-so-called-reality-show-hikes-organ-donor-registrations/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[According to a BBC article, the fake Dutch reality show &#8220;The Big Donor&#8221;, in which three &#8220;contestants&#8221; competed to receive the organ of a &#8220;terminally ill&#8221; patient, has seen 12,000 new registered organ donors in the Netherlands since the show went to air.
Whilst I&#8217;m still not convinced as to whether the show was the right [...]]]></description>
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