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- Sun Feb 20, 2011 6:38 pm
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: Independant adjudicator for donorship - anyone?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5213
Re: Independant adjudicator for donorship - anyone?
Yes I did have a similar problem. My half brother & I didn't have any photos of us together. But I did have photos of him as a little boy with his sisters & with our Dad & his mother. I had photos of our Dad with my mother when I was young. I had a photo of my brother with my father's cu...
- Fri Feb 18, 2011 7:10 pm
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: New to forum, Is this the right place to introduce myself?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 8247
Re: New to forum, Is this the right place to introduce mysel
Hello, this is a good place to post & introduce yourself. I can relate to several aspects of the situation you find yourself in. I am nearly 4 years post tx from my much younger half brother (from my father's 2nd marriage) & I am the eldest of his 6 children and one step daughter. The younge...
- Thu Feb 17, 2011 9:10 pm
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: NHS care of the elderly in the news
- Replies: 15
- Views: 10025
Re: NHS care of the elderly in the news
Spin? Not at all. My sister and I realised that my mother was being neglected on the rehab ward at the local cottage hospital after being discharged from rehab hospital following a stroke. My mother used to live 2 hours drive away from me and 5 hours away from my sister. I was working in London. I u...
- Sat Feb 12, 2011 11:12 am
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: My neph phoned me to ask me to cease posting on this forum
- Replies: 39
- Views: 32192
Re: My neph phoned me to ask me to cease posting on this for
The renal world is clearly a small world. I am writing this in the full knowledge that the neph is reading this. Until I stumbled across this forum I knew no one else who was on dialysis and going through what I was going through. Its value lies in the support patients & carers give to each othe...
- Wed Dec 15, 2010 12:02 pm
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: Diet post transplant - what can't I eat?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 24404
mods please remove
looks like this is an advert.
- Wed Dec 08, 2010 11:25 pm
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: 9 weeks pregnant with FSGS. Advice please!!
- Replies: 11
- Views: 11407
9 weeks pregnant FSGS
Hi Louise Perhaps you could also consider who might be your live kidney donor in case you don't come off dialysis. I attended a tx seminar at my unit last week and it was made very clear that once a patient gets to 20% & depending how they feel - that is the time to go for live kidney donation f...
- Wed Nov 17, 2010 11:18 am
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: Do healthy people understand?
- Replies: 41
- Views: 27468
incapacity benefit
The first place showed ignorance. Just because someone is on dialysis does not mean they are incapable of work. Again just because someone is able to work while on dialysis it does not mean that everyone on dialysis is able to work. The same applies to disability living allowance. When filling out t...
- Thu Nov 11, 2010 9:58 pm
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: Ethics of Organ Retrieval:Goals, Rights & Responsibiliti
- Replies: 0
- Views: 8655
Ethics of Organ Retrieval:Goals, Rights & Responsibiliti
I've heard about the Winter Transplantation Ethics Symposium on 15th December, St Thomas' Hospital, London
Find out more on the BTS website where you can find the programme & booking form. http://www.bts.org.uk/about-the-bts/upcoming-events/
Helen
Find out more on the BTS website where you can find the programme & booking form. http://www.bts.org.uk/about-the-bts/upcoming-events/
Helen
- Thu Nov 11, 2010 9:32 pm
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: post transplant and working
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3775
post transplant and working
Hi Gilly I havent looked at the site for a while and saw your post hadnt had any replies. I think you're right - day by day is how you have to look at it and not compare yourself with how you think you ought to feel. Sometimes I am so pleased with how much I have done in a day, which I could never h...
- Tue Oct 12, 2010 6:56 pm
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: Rant Please lol !
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6882
rant
Feel free to rant - it's the one place where we all understand. Don't know about cut backs dont be so quick to label this. I wasn't supplied with drip stand; or scales; or scissors; or BP cuff. Baxter supplied the paper roll along with the other supplies/consumables and I was supplied with a bag war...
- Sun Oct 10, 2010 10:01 am
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: Strange and painful foot rash
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6627
rash pain in foot
Hi Sanela
I'd try taking the aciclovir if it's been prescribed. In my simple non-medical lateral thinking ... it's a ciclovir. We get given valganciclovir to prevent/cure CMV. Think shingles, chicken pox, CMV come under Herpes and need anti viral drugs.
Helen
I'd try taking the aciclovir if it's been prescribed. In my simple non-medical lateral thinking ... it's a ciclovir. We get given valganciclovir to prevent/cure CMV. Think shingles, chicken pox, CMV come under Herpes and need anti viral drugs.
Helen
- Thu Sep 30, 2010 10:14 pm
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: PD drain probs
- Replies: 12
- Views: 8079
PD drain probs
Hi Geduramah Picking up from your post on Xmas foods. Like you I was potassium tolerant and had to watch my phosphates. I had been drinking a lot of orange juice half cut with water before starting PD so was told "well you dont need to worry about veggies". I tended to drink "normally...
- Fri Sep 17, 2010 1:20 pm
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: Silly Bug&*%
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5463
No the right thing to do is to listen to the PD nurses and remember if you touch the end of the tube the drill is stop the exchange or whatever you are doing, clamp the tube, and go straight to the PD unit for a tube change. Do not pass Go, do not collect £100, do not stop for anything else. Even i...
- Tue Sep 14, 2010 11:46 am
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: Definitely One for the Girls!
- Replies: 26
- Views: 23210
one for the girls
Addition to my post above. I had a tcre & merino coil because I started getting a period every two weeks. On pd as they put iron into me I was losing it again. My gynae said he thought that there was link with CKD to period problems. Later found some research done at St Mary's in late 90s sugges...
- Fri Sep 10, 2010 1:49 pm
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: Any advice on how to prevent a headache after dialysis?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 37909
It might be worth getting in touch with the doctor in charge of her - well before she is due to see him/her. I did not do HD so I dont know if this is commonly done i.e. to speed up the machine to fit in with the schedule. Frankly at first sight it doesn't appear to be in the patient's best interest...