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- Tue May 31, 2016 5:52 pm
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: 4 years post tx!
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7460
4 years post tx!
Hope everyone is doing well. I don't come on here that much anymore but just wanted to check in and say i have reached my 4th kidney tx anniversary from my dad. Had a fab christmas we went with my parents to florida for 2 weeks, kids loved it, so did the grown ups!!
- Thu May 12, 2016 7:20 pm
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: Dialysis in Devon
- Replies: 1
- Views: 7495
Re: Dialysis in Devon
Hi JMan. Plymouth definitely has a dialysis unit as that is main renal centre for devon and cornwall, i had my tx there. I believe you should be able to bus it to plymouth from Totnes. Contact the units at the hospital, plymouth is derriford hospital. http://units.renal.org/?c=plymouth. Hope that he...
- Sat May 30, 2015 3:39 pm
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: Relocation
- Replies: 4
- Views: 12966
Re: Relocation
Hi Thelma, I had my tx in May 2012 at Plymouth Derriford. I live in Bourenemouth since getting married but as my parents are still in Plymouth nd Dad donated it was easier to have it done down there than Bristol which is where Dorset transplants go. Good luck with you move! I'm not on advagraf, I ta...
- Sat Mar 14, 2015 5:52 pm
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: That call
- Replies: 17
- Views: 46478
Re: That call
Wonderful news!
- Sat Mar 14, 2015 5:21 pm
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: Coping with not having children
- Replies: 31
- Views: 103588
Re: Coping with not having children
Hi Midgetem. I am sorry to hear what your consultant told you, as mine have always been the opposite, completely supportive. I have had kidney disease all my life, I am now 32 with a 7 and a half yr old boy and and almost 4 yr old daughter. If it is something you really want i would seek a second op...
- Sat Oct 11, 2014 3:10 pm
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: Baby....baby...baby. Now with pictures
- Replies: 27
- Views: 64241
Re: Baby....baby...baby
Huge congrats!! Enjoy it, girls are fab, but cost more than boys lol , am sure my 3 yr old daughter has more clothes and shoes than me! Love the name tooxxx
- Sun Aug 17, 2014 8:20 am
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: Dialysis cuts ?!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7434
Dialysis cuts ?!
Saw this on another site and thought would share, i have signed it to possibly prevent cuts, though i would share here in case anyone wanted to do the same xx
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ ... 1408225678
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ ... 1408225678
- Wed Jul 30, 2014 6:59 pm
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: transplant options
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6918
Re: transplant options
I think generally you have your transplant surgery wherever is closest to your usual unit and has tx surgeons. For example i live in bournemouth, generally patients go to bristol to have their tx surgery as that is the unit used by dorchester/dorset renal clinics. However my dad donated to me and hm...
- Fri Jun 20, 2014 7:56 am
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: Update on me and my brother
- Replies: 13
- Views: 22230
Re: Update on me and my brother
Hi Matthew, they wouldn't have picked it up during donor testing, because nothing flagged up as unusual (low cholestrol, low bp, normal ecg). He was almost 67 when he donated tho. He was very lucky they realised he had a heart attack tho he just said he felt dizzy and faint, mum took his bp which wa...
- Wed Jun 18, 2014 8:21 am
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: Worth the risk?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 17393
Re: Worth the risk?
lol Amanda. My mum sort of instilled in me to have my kids young, as she unfortunately struggled to conceive me (an only child). Lucky she got married and tried right away young as they were trying for 14 yrs and she had me at 35 (that was considered geriatric 32 yrs ago, she only knew about my one ...
- Wed Jun 18, 2014 8:08 am
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: Kidney disease and prejudice
- Replies: 20
- Views: 27746
Re: Kidney disease and prejudice
I am lucky i have very supportive and understanding friends and family. Except mother in law who im pretty certain never wanted hubby to marry me 9 yrs ago because i have things wrong with me (she was scared i wouldnt produce grandkids i reckon!) She has come out with some corkers in hr time, but th...
- Wed Jun 18, 2014 7:52 am
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: Update on me and my brother
- Replies: 13
- Views: 22230
Re: Update on me and my brother
Glad to here u and your brother are doing so well! I am just 2 yrs post tx i got mine from my dad and we are both doing well even tho he had a heart bypass op 6 weeks ago !
How do u feel as the donor, do u notice a change in your body how u feel? x
How do u feel as the donor, do u notice a change in your body how u feel? x
- Wed Jun 18, 2014 7:47 am
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: lainiepop 2yr post tx and 4wks post op update!
- Replies: 0
- Views: 10157
lainiepop 2yr post tx and 4wks post op update!
Hi all! Well I hit 2yrs post tx on the 29th may, unfortunately for those who don't know, dad my donor was then just out of hospital after his heart bypass op and I was in hospital recovering from emergency surgery. I went to hospital thinking I had a stomach bug after 9hrs of vomiting a not being ab...
- Tue Jun 03, 2014 8:14 am
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: 2 year tx anniversary spent in hospital after emergency op!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 11784
Re: 2 year tx anniversary spent in hospital after emergency
Thank u guys! I know it was very scary and out of the blue, they think it was from the original scar tissue where they built my bladder from bowel 24 years ago. My dad had issues with scar tissue 2 weeks after he had his appendix removed, but my surgeon said thats quite rare and its much more common...
- Tue Jun 03, 2014 8:00 am
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: Worth the risk?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 17393
Re: Worth the risk?
Hi. I am 32 and i have a boy who will turn 7 in October and a girl who will be 3 in a month. I went through a phase of being broody for another at age 30 funnily enough i think its a natural thing as u know times running out but im way over it now and would not have wanted 3 kids as our two are so c...