Booking blood tests pre-COVID For transplant patients, it has always been a bit back to front at my unit – you’d go to your transplant clinic, be given your blood cards, and then have a review of your previous blood results with the consultant. After your appointment, you’d go and get your bloods done. You’d then be waiting nervously for 24 hours before the results went…
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I am a renal patient on peritoneal dialysis, and live with my wife Debbie – have done for 47 years! For a few years now, I have volunteered at my renal unit offering peer support. I get calls from the renal team asking if I can speak to patients who may be unsure about their treatment decisions, and help them make the right choice for them. …
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How did you come to choose PD? When I was making the choice, I thought PD would make life easier for me – just to be able to move about freely during the day and do what I wanted. I think it allows you to have more control of your own life – having to be in hospital for six hours in a day would drive…
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This was a Social Media question, and I have reproduced the responses made during a seven hour period from renal patients. I have intentionally not tidied it up apart from removing people’s names to show some raw feelings. Keith Bucknall Freedom 😆 Well ur employer has to make the workplace safe, and furlough in some kind is still there. So I wouldnt say abandoned yet but…
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Brilliant shielding CaMKIN Q&A zoom session with the wonderful Dr Hammed Anijeet, Kidney specialists at Royal Liverpool University Hospital; here are some of the conversations Virus is spread primarily from person to person through small droplets from the nose or mouth, which are expelled when a person with COVID-19 coughs, sneezes, or speaks. Virus does not travel far which is why the current social distancing guideline…
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