Kidney Thinking. The blog from Think Kidneys

The team at Aintree have shared their review: The COVID-19 pandemic has put a strain on many aspects of health care including the provision of dialysis. Two categories of patients have had the greatest impact on dialysis capacity. Those with COVID-19 related acute kidney injury and those chronic dialysis patients who required isolation or cohort dialysis because of the pandemic.

Brilliant shielding CaMKIN Q&A zoom session with the wonderful Dr Hammed Anijeet, Kidney specialists at Royal Liverpool University Hospital; here are some of the conversations Virus is spread primarily from person to person through small droplets from the nose or mouth, which are expelled when a person with COVID-19 coughs, sneezes, or speaks. Virus does not travel far which is why the current social distancing guideline…

…with pre-planning, self-soothing and attention to changes in our body we can exert some control over anxiety and limit the extent of our reaction Amanda Bevin, Renal Counselor, Kent and Canterbury NHS Foundation Trust Anxiety within the general population at present is running high, and understandably our renal dialysis community who are vulnerable and shielding may be experiencing distress as they continue to attend their renal…

Letting it go – put the thought on a leaf; the leaf on a stream or river and watch it float off downstream until it is out of sight Amanda Bevin, Renal Counselor, Kent and Canterbury NHS Foundation Trust In early March 2020 the UK was catapulted into a completely different way of living and working, no more so noticeable than in the NHS, and specifically…

In my last blog added on 17th June I posted a feeling of exclusion, now following the latest unshielding guidance that has changed dramatically. I have been snuggled safe in a nest, I am now told from 1 August, it’s time to fledge and leave the safety of the nest (I am allowed test runs from July). But keep distancing, and actually keep the nest, and…