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- Mon Jul 26, 2010 4:50 pm
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: places not to go/be very cautious
- Replies: 4
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- Tue Dec 08, 2009 9:30 am
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: Congratulations to Big Buzzard!
- Replies: 18
- Views: 11559
- Tue Dec 08, 2009 9:29 am
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: PARTICIPANT RECRUITMENT FOR QUESTIONNAIRE
- Replies: 17
- Views: 10557
- Mon Dec 07, 2009 10:56 am
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: Diet post transplant - what can't I eat?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 24372
great advice above! I would also add that I was quite strict immediately post transplant when recovering and on higher immuno doses: I avoided all soft cheeses, anything unpasteurised, shellfish, raw eggs, raw fish etc. About 6 months in I relaxed the cheese and shellfish rule, though I get very twi...
- Tue Dec 01, 2009 3:47 pm
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: Writing to a donor family
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5602
hi Tom, I wrote to my donor family earlier this year. I haven't receievd a reply, although I was told that the majority of donor families don't write back. As for timing: As recipients i think we often project our own guilt about our transplants onto the donor families and imagine that they don't wa...
- Tue Dec 01, 2009 11:46 am
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: Swine Flu - one or two injections?
- Replies: 79
- Views: 57783
- Fri Nov 27, 2009 8:58 am
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: Our equally talented Holly S (Holz)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6147
Our equally talented Holly S (Holz)
Holz just won the national vinspired SHOUT award 2009 for all the work she did this year promoting organ donation with Channel 4, Battlefront and Live Life then Give Life
So proud of you Holz!
So proud of you Holz!
- Tue Nov 24, 2009 11:05 am
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: anyone stayed around B'ham post tx ?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6717
hello :) Also, as a donor (rather than recipient) you'll need much less intensive follow up. Recipients need constant checks for rejection etc in the early days I had my transplant at Edinburgh but was discharged to my home unit (Dundee) after 10 days where they did bloods, biopsies etc there. I nev...
- Wed Nov 18, 2009 5:32 pm
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: PhD funding ideas?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2931
hello! Well done on the kidney :) Have you applied for a proper PhD research studentship from the research councils such as the Medical Research Council, the Economic and Social Research Council, Nuffield, Leverhulme, Royal Society? I finished my PhD in 2007 and got full fees paid plus a bursary fro...
- Tue Nov 03, 2009 11:57 am
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: Swine flu vaccine
- Replies: 35
- Views: 23666
- Tue Nov 03, 2009 11:32 am
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: No NHS-medical care in end-stage-renal-failure. Any ideas?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 25461
- Mon Nov 02, 2009 8:43 pm
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: I've had my baby
- Replies: 14
- Views: 9239
- Mon Nov 02, 2009 7:13 pm
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: Abnormal cervical smears in transplantees
- Replies: 20
- Views: 13227
hello, just a quick update I had my colposcopy today and it looks as if I've been colonized by the HPV virus. They took a biopsy to confirm and sent it off- Results in a month- GAH! Something else to freak out about :( Apparently most of the population have HPV and the body deals with it on its own,...
- Sat Oct 24, 2009 3:01 pm
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: Happy Transplantiversary Holly
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1987
- Fri Oct 23, 2009 7:55 am
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: Hopefully off to Tenerife
- Replies: 16
- Views: 8771