Dead Kidney Season

19/03/2023

Happy Mother's Day to the incredible woman that wrote this - about how it feels as a girlfriend when your other half almost dies.

There’s very little written for those that have a loved one suffering from Kidney Disease. The partners. Parents. Children. Which prompted my fiance (oh yes!) to write something unbelievably …

30/10/2022

Chemotherapy or Prednisone (Steroid) ?
A full report on being offered both, choosing Preds for CKD.

Prednisone Or Chemo? What to expect with Prednisone and some tips when Tapering My kidney function was dropping so fast in the late autumn of 2020 that I started pushing my consultant to get going …

16/10/2022

The reality of ignoring your diagnosis until you can't. Would/did you do something similar?

http://ryanowenchild.com/2021/11/diagnosis-operation-head-in-the-sand/

#1)IGA Diagnosis “Operation Head in the Sand” September 18th, 2019 Walking the dog. The stars sit like a big cap over the sky. Heavy. They felt heavy. Heavy stars and mashed potatoe clo…

07/10/2022

The truth about Stent Removal: And a Crystal The coiled White Menace  July 6th, 2022 Stent removed yesterday. Before the operation, I remember reading on Facebook some guy saying stent removal…

07/10/2022

Want to Know what Stent Removal after Kidney Transplant is like?
I've done my best to explain it here. (From a male perspective)

Spoiler alert: A few months later It's funny and nothing to worry much about.

The truth about Stent Removal: And a Crystal The coiled White Menace  July 6th, 2022 Stent removed yesterday. Before the operation, I remember reading on Facebook some guy saying stent removal…

30/09/2022

Want to Know what 24 hours in A&E and witnessing pure Heartbreak is like?

This is the Part 5 of Dead Kidney Season: A&E and Tragedy

Kidney Transplant Part 5: A&E and Tragedy Before* After* The mirror *The images above show me before and after Kidney transplant after IGA nephropathy caused Kidney Failure. The girl in the pic…

25/09/2022

Part 4 of the Transplant Story - Almost Home. Crying suddenly.

Kidney Transplant Part 4 – Almost Home Visits – lots of visits Packing up to go home after a little Friday to Friday hospital stay. Seven days. Lots of toast. Lots of Tea. Addicted to both no…

18/09/2022

Day 4 - 6 after Transplant.
Murderer Nurses and Catheter Extraction.
Things were good. Link Below.

Kidney Transplant Part 3: Day 4 – 6 Day 4 The day they removed the drain. The first tube to go. Liberation. The blood red tube taking off the blood red blood left around the new kidney, pooling up, gone now. The feeling of it coming out is strange. The slippery tube gently being pulled out of your...

12/09/2022

Days 0 to 3 after getting a Kidney Transplant. Hallucinations and finally getting to the end of the pain.
Follow the story right here on Facebook. I've tried to put in as much info in all of the posts so people going through or soon to be going through or hoping to go through know what to expect. Would love to hear from you if it's been completely differant or silghtly the same !

Days o to 3 after Kidney Transplant Surgery...

05/09/2022

The page has transformed I tell the!

Tune in every Monday for unique posts about living with a rare diseas and kidney failure.

The first post finds Ryan in Hospital about to have a Transplant.

A woman with a thick Bristol twang called me at 8am Friday morning. “We’ve got a kidney for yow my love. Get a big breakfast and ghed on over.”