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One Year on From a Kidney Transplant
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 a more normal life (and not die young). Anyway, although I’d been anticipating the date, the 13th […]
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Public transport woes
November 5, 2012
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. Whereby office printed posters said ’33 and 51 bus stop moved’ (but nor where to). On the back of said posters I found […]
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6 Months on from the Transplant
September 19, 2012
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 kidney transplant courtesy of my mom (her kidney that is, she didn’t perform the operation (Lazy). Thankfully […]
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The Day of the Op
March 18, 2012
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, here’s how shit went down, as it were. After my last night on overnight peritoneal dialysis, I was […]
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The Past Week’s Goings on – Monday
March 17, 2012
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 dialysis machine for what may well be the last time. Earlier that day, I’d been […]
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The joys of ABO treatment
March 12, 2012
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. Each treatment costs £2,000 in materials, and its only been used in the UK for under 10 years or […]
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about.me
Dave Allen
Manages web content, social media and events.
I live in Wolverhampton and work for Birmingham City University, where I'm a Digital Marketing Manager. I also run a project called Animation Forum West Midlands.
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