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- Sun Jan 19, 2014 8:14 pm
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: UMBILICAL CORD.
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4443
UMBILICAL CORD.
Our fifth granddaughter was born on Friday. When the umbilical cord was cut there was only one artery. The midwife explained to my son and his wife this can lead to kidney problems, they will have to keep having her checked. My husband got IGA. could there be a link? Has anyone else ever heard of th...
- Tue Jan 14, 2014 11:13 pm
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: Council tax reductions for dialysis room
- Replies: 11
- Views: 26227
Re: Council tax reductions for dialysis room
Yes our council tax went down a band also. Are you on a water meter? Because of the amount of time hand washing our water rates were capped.
- Wed Jan 08, 2014 7:09 pm
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: HI FOLKS FROM JBELL
- Replies: 14
- Views: 18733
Re: HI FOLKS FROM JBELL
Give your Mum our best wishes, hope she has a speedy recovery x
- Thu Jan 02, 2014 6:22 pm
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: ADVICE WANTED.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 10298
Re: ADVICE WANTED.
Thank you all for your replies. We are at clinic next week and we are getting a list together to ask the clinic/renal team a load of questions we need answers to.
Thank you
Thank you
- Mon Dec 30, 2013 8:55 pm
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: ADVICE WANTED.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 10298
Re: ADVICE WANTED.
Thank you all for your replies. The hospital secretaries fill in the forms which I don't think they know everything about the patient. The nurse at my husbands GP as wrote a letter and helped to fill the forms in. We are still waiting to hear from them. Its just one worry after another. His surgeon ...
- Mon Dec 30, 2013 8:26 am
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: Got the Call!
- Replies: 36
- Views: 42883
Re: Got the Call!
Good luck, We are all thinking of you x x x
- Sun Dec 29, 2013 9:13 pm
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: ADVICE WANTED.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 10298
ADVICE WANTED.
My husband started with IGA in 2000, he was given 2 years before he would need dialysis and a transplant. He managed to get to 2010 before he went on dialysis, he worked up to the day he had his tube fitted. He was a sheet metal worker and was advised not to return to that type of work due to heavy ...
- Sat Dec 28, 2013 6:59 pm
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: Christmas & New Year Best Wishes
- Replies: 6
- Views: 8476
Re: Christmas & New Year Best Wishes
Merry Christmas and A Healthy Happy New Year to you all.
Mike and Carol
Mike and Carol
- Sun Dec 22, 2013 10:35 pm
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: GAZA
- Replies: 0
- Views: 9887
GAZA
Did anyone watch Granada reports last week? The surgeons from the Liverpool Royal went out to Gaza to perform transplants mainly on children. The work was followed by the cameras. The surgeons who went out there performed my husbands transplant. It was a good insight to how other countries handle ki...
- Sun Dec 22, 2013 10:17 pm
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: Chicken pox
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6195
Re: Chicken pox
You could end up with shingles. My husband got shingles after his transplant and became very very poorly, in hospital for 3 weeks.
Get yourself checked out a.s.a.p.
C.
Get yourself checked out a.s.a.p.
C.
- Thu Oct 31, 2013 7:36 pm
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: Cathater tube fixing.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 8718
Re: Cathater tube fixing.
My husband used a money wallet belt. He bought from Matalan a flesh coloured belt, the ones you have on holiday to hide your cash! He made a hole in the back of the fabric and fed his tube into it. It made his tube secure. and was able to carry on day to day routines without the worry of catching hi...
- Fri Oct 25, 2013 4:13 pm
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: Tacro levels post tx
- Replies: 13
- Views: 23533
Re: Tacro levels post tx
Hi Amanda Clare. I have not been on here for quite a while. My husband is a lot better than he was. But every month when we go to clinic there is always something they have to adjust. He went on Monday for his bloods checked and by Monday evening they were on the phone. His taco. readings had droppe...
- Thu Oct 24, 2013 8:08 pm
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: Tacro levels post tx
- Replies: 13
- Views: 23533
Re: Tacro levels post tx
Hi. My husband had a transplant 2 years ago, had lots of problems. Went to clinic yesterday and his taco readings are down to 2.5 Docs has increased his meds, and got to go back next week for more blood tests. This is the second time they have been this low this year!
- Tue Oct 30, 2012 9:02 pm
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: ADVICE REQUIRED PLEASE
- Replies: 6
- Views: 11154
Re: ADVICE REQUIRED PLEASE
Thank you for your replies. We have taken advice and they say there is nothing else! I dont work I was made redundant, then sods law Mum had heart attack she is 84 and Dad is 89. I have my hands full with them, my husband and I look after our grandchildren one day a week. You can only work 16 hours ...
- Tue Oct 30, 2012 8:02 pm
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: ADVICE REQUIRED PLEASE
- Replies: 6
- Views: 11154
ADVICE REQUIRED PLEASE
I have not been on here for some while. My husband had a transplant August, 2011 he came out of hospital December 2011. He is very slowly improving, he goes to clinic every 3 weeks. creatine still not stable but the consultant not worrying too much now because goes up one week and then another it go...