One Year on From a Kidney Transplant 13 Mar 2013 | 10:43 pm

One year ago, to the day, I had a kidney transplant courtesy of my mom. She didn’t perform the operation sadly, but did donate her kidney. Which was nice, and meant I could come off dialysis, and have...

Public transport woes 5 Nov 2012 | 02:22 pm

Excellent public transport so far this morning. First, the train was 20min late and dangerously overcrowded, so I missed my connecting train to Perry Barr. This meant catching the 51 bus instead. Wher...

6 Months on from the Transplant 19 Sep 2012 | 05:51 pm

I haven’t blogged here for a fair while and as my new job essentially involves teaching others to blog, I thought it might be worth a quick update. So, when we last spoke I’d just had a successful kid...

Scar Belly 22 Mar 2012 | 09:08 pm

The Day of the Op 19 Mar 2012 | 10:31 am

Now, I naturally would have written this post on the day of my transplant – Tuesday, but as I was mostly asleep on that particular day, it may not have made for the most interesting reading. Still, he...

The Past Week’s Goings on – Monday 18 Mar 2012 | 12:29 am

So, 5 days have slipped past since my last blog post, and its fair to say a lot has happened. I was admitted to ward 305 at QE hospital on Monday 12th February, and on that night, connected to my dia...

The joys of ABO treatment 13 Mar 2012 | 12:35 am

As I write this, I’m plugged into an immuno suppression machine, designed to remove just the antibodies in my blood that would react with my mom’s AB blood type, when her kidney is transplanted to me....

Rocky IV-style Research Montage 9 Mar 2012 | 07:42 am

Today I’m at QE Hospital again, this time to take part in a number of tests for a University of Birmingham research project. So far, this had meant blood tests, assorted scans, and jumping on somethi...

Social Media Surgery 6 Mar 2012 | 01:30 pm

For fans of The Saw movies, I guess.

In the words of Europe… 6 Mar 2012 | 01:52 am

It’s the final countdown. Next Tuesday, all things being well, I’ll be the proud owner of a new kidney. Well, I say new, it’ll actually be one of my mom’s old kidneys (unfortunately, when it comes to ...