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I need.to speak with my consultant but someone said this week that you have to wait for a year after you get the all clear of cancer before getting back on the transplant register. I am clear of bowel cancer but have a spot on my liver they want to treat, so no all clear quite yet When is your...

To be honest I never gave it any thought at all. I was never given any guidance about what to do or what not to do, other than drink plenty of water, it was never a big deal, I don't recall talking about it at all. It's a long time ago, if snything was mentioned it was more that I'd had cancer...

Now, that is unrelated and possibly worthy of a thread of its' own involving many A&E stories that may be apocryphal, or more worrying .... true

Very sorry to hear that, and best wishes to your boy. I can't offer anything much of use, but you could try talking to one of the renal consultants at Sussex County, they're very good, they might be able to offer info or recommend someone.

I have no idea what haemolytic uraemia synrome is - I assume you ask for a reason

I had cancer for the first time when i was 1 year old and lost one kidney then. I have lived for 50 years on one, but the remaining one has been deteriorating for 10 years or so - I'm told I have been unlucky in that my kidney is polycystic and failing because of that. My remaining kidney is...

I've done about 3 months, they hurried me on to it before I had to have major surgery for bowel cancer. I have worked for 30 years and this week I have to start looking into getting benefits for the first time because I can't work. Dialysis sessions, as you know, are 4 hours 3 times a week...

I only have one and the second has just about conked out. 3 days a week on dialysis in hospital. Not a bundle of laughs.