Kidney Matters - Issue 6, Summer 2019
Kidney Matters is our free quarterly magazine for everyone affected by kidney disease. This issue includes another recipe for our Kidney Kitchen as well as articles about dialysis transport, UK Kidney week, conservative treatment, and an interview with a retiring dialysis nurse after 33 years. We know that being a kidney patient can be tough at times and that accessing the right help at the right time isn’t always easy. We’ve spent a great deal of time over the past year talking to kidney patients on dialysis, asking them what we can do to address this. The response was overwhelmingly ‘improved communication’ on what is going on in the kidney world and what is available to them in terms of support and how to access it. Kidney Matters has been developed to tackle this as well as the many other issues kidney patients face in day-to-day life. Along with shared patient experiences, Kidney Matters provides on how to access emotional and practical support, financial assistance through our grant schemes, advice from leading kidney specialists and tips on how to keep as well as possible by eating a healthy diet whilst on dialysis.
Kidney Matters is our free quarterly magazine for everyone affected by kidney disease.
This issue includes another recipe for our Kidney Kitchen as well as articles about dialysis transport, UK Kidney week, conservative treatment, and an interview with a retiring dialysis nurse after 33 years.
We know that being a kidney patient can be tough at times and that accessing the right help at the right time isn’t always easy. We’ve spent a great deal of time over the past year talking to kidney patients on dialysis, asking them what we can do to address this. The response was overwhelmingly ‘improved communication’ on what is going on in the kidney world and what is available to them in terms of support and how to access it.
Kidney Matters has been developed to tackle this as well as the many other issues kidney patients face in day-to-day life. Along with shared patient experiences, Kidney Matters provides on how to access emotional and practical support, financial assistance through our grant schemes, advice from leading kidney specialists and tips on how to keep as well as possible by eating a healthy diet whilst on dialysis.
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31<br />
Knitting up my token of love<br />
The staff at the Dunedin dialysis<br />
unit in Christchurch, New Zealand,<br />
who had looked after 16-year-old<br />
James Blackburn were very happy<br />
to meet their new dialysis nurse<br />
and patient (complete with dialysis<br />
machine). James was diagnosed<br />
with chronic kidney disease in<br />
2011 at the age of 15. Then at 16 he<br />
moved to the Dunedin dialysis unit<br />
to have haemodialysis three times<br />
a week for five hours a time. The<br />
schedule enabled him to continue<br />
his studies at school.<br />
We love it, Faye!<br />
James’ mother Faye knitted the<br />
whole scene as a thank you to the<br />
staff at the unit for looking after<br />
James right up until he received<br />
a kidney donated by his father,<br />
on 31 March 2016. James is doing<br />
really well now and Faye was keen<br />
to acknowledge the love and care<br />
the staff had given him at the unit.<br />
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<strong>Issue</strong> 6 | <strong>Summer</strong> <strong>2019</strong>
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