Kidney Matters - Issue 12 Spring 2021
Kidney Matters is our free quarterly magazine for everyone affected by kidney disease. This issue includes a tribute to Kidney Care UK Chair of Trustees Professor Donal O'Donoghue who passed away due to covid-19 at the start of the year. There's also a feature on sex and relationships, how your views helped shape covid-19 national policy, medical articles on anaemia and simultaneous pancreas and kidney transplantation, and a feature interview with a transplant recipient on some of the social stigmas often faced by people with chronic health conditions within the Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) community. As well as this, we'll be looking back at two years of the Kidney Kitchen as we cook up a tasty tandoori with guest chef and RNG dietitian, Gabby Ramlan.
Kidney Matters is our free quarterly magazine for everyone affected by kidney disease.
This issue includes a tribute to Kidney Care UK Chair of Trustees Professor Donal O'Donoghue who passed away due to covid-19 at the start of the year. There's also a feature on sex and relationships, how your views helped shape covid-19 national policy, medical articles on anaemia and simultaneous pancreas and kidney transplantation, and a feature interview with a transplant recipient on some of the social stigmas often faced by people with chronic health conditions within the Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) community.
As well as this, we'll be looking back at two years of the Kidney Kitchen as we cook up a tasty tandoori with guest chef and RNG dietitian, Gabby Ramlan.
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From Gibraltar to Stokes Bay –
a journey through chronic
kidney disease by Catharine Clifford Hall
Most of us can say that at least we had our childhood free of chronic kidney disease
(CKD) and all that we associate with tackling this condition. Imagine if we’d been
diagnosed when we were 13 and enjoying life at a new school. Catharine shines a light
on her life as a young teenager back in the 1970s.
I was born in 1966, in Gibraltar. By the time I was
13 I was attending Cheltenham Ladies College as a
boarder. My father was a Surgeon Commodore in the
Royal Navy and in those days the children of many
naval officers went to boarding school.
I soon found that I was falling asleep in class. This
meant I was losing ground in my school work.
Eventually, the House Mistress decided something
was amiss and I was sent to see the doctor.
“I became a specialist children’s renal nurse.
I am still in touch with some of the transplant
recipients I nursed all those years ago. I think
perhaps that the personal experience I brought
to my job really helped many patients during
a difficult time in their lives”
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