Perceptions

In addition to the pages linked below, read about patient and carer experiences in our ‘What’s it really like’ series, in the Medical Information Zone.

• Haemodialysis Options – There are more options than you might think! (added 22 March 2010)
• Donating to a Stranger — One Way to Help Solve the Kidney Shortage (added 9 September 2008)
• No Kidneys: No Cry - by Michael O’Sullivan (added 9 September 2008)
• It’s OK to be scared — Mark Mountford’s Live Donation to his brother (added 21 April 2008)
• My experience of receiving a kidney from my sister - by Douglas Ross (added 18 March 2008)
• The Importance of Being Patient - by Sarah Turnbull (added 21 October 2006)
• The 4th European Transplant & Dialysis Federation (ETDSF) Games in Pecs (in Hungary); and why we all need them - by Dick Cook (added 21 October 2006)
• My experiences of living with kidney pain - by Alison Banister (added 24 August 2006)
• Life on Dialysis and the Transplant List - by Charlene Henry (added 6 April 2006)
• Kidney Failure and me - by Maureen Hendon (added 22 June 2004)
• Kidneys & Beans - Kidney Failure and Gardening (added 8 August 2002)
• Dialysis at Home and Abroad, by Lord Biffen (added 18 May 2002)
• Shane Cross, Haemodialysis Patient (added 23 November 2001)
• Retrieving organs - not just an ordinary operation, by a theatre staff nurse (added 1 November 2001)
• Kidney Failure: A Personal Account, by Isambard Wilkinson (Journalist) (added 15 August 2001)
• Recent advances in nephrology, by Dr Charlie Tomson, Renal Consultant (added 13 January 2001)
• Greta Read's experience of dialysis and a transplant from her Brother (added 28 April 2000)
• Deborah Duval, A Woman in Kidney Failure (added 11 January 2000)
• Juliet Auer, Renal Medical Social Worker, look back - and forward (added 17 November 1999)
• Alistair Hedderwick, Haemodialysis patient (added 11 November 1999)
• Rosemary Barlow, Haemodialysis patient

If you are connected in any way with renal failure, either as a patient, carer, or by employment and you would like to submit an article for possible inclusion in this area then please do.

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