My name's Holly Shaw and I'm 21 years old... I am in my 3rd year at Chester University (Warrington campus) doing an Early Childhood Studies degree! At the beginning of 2005 I was diagnosed with Kidney failure and dialysed 3 x a week for 4 years.
I received my new kidney on 25th October 2008. It...
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A big week...
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hollyvshaw
Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure
It is a busy week ahead... tomorrow I GRADUATE! I can't believe how quick it has come around... in fact I can't believe that I have finished my 3 years at uni! I may have to ...
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The new campaign...
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hollyvshaw
Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure
I was going to write about Save Jess-tival but check out the Live Life Then Give Life blog... as it is a great write up! Everyone had a fab night and all the volunteers did a ...
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Getting fit...
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hollyvshaw
Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure
So I joined the gym yesterday! I thought I would use this blog so I can keep a note of what I am doing each time I go to the gym and look back to see how much I improve over ...
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A new me...
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hollyvshaw
Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure
Ok so I said I would blog the following day... it's nearly a week later and here it is!
Life does get in the way of blogging sometimes, which is a great thing, if you loo ...
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Role Reversal...
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hollyvshaw
Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure
Life takes over and I completely forget about keeping this up to date. Sometimes it takes over with good and happy events, this time that wasn't the case.
I can't believ ...
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LLTGL Abseil
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hollyvshaw
Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure
Hey everyone...
My its been a busy week this week, the #savejess campaign really took off and there will be lots of exciting developments over the next couple of weeks, v ...
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Save Jess....
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hollyvshaw
Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure
Please do as the title says! Save Jess and join the Organ Donor Register.
The campaign started on twitter, we started tweeting about Jess with the hashtag so we could trac ...
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Worried....
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hollyvshaw
Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure
I, like most people in the transplant community today are worried that we are going to lose a very special young lady, 20 year old Jessica Wales has been waiting for a double ...
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Update...
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hollyvshaw
Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure
Ok so going to try and make this a quick one but I seem to have done a lot recently and got lots to tell you all!
Firstly the blog below says it all but I am just so plea ...
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Abigail is one...
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hollyvshaw
Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure
As the title suggests Abigail is one! Her birthday was on Saturday and we celebrated at her house with family and friends! I can't believe how quick this year has gone... it ...
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Reflective...
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hollyvshaw
Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure
I was reflecting yesterday with my Mum, she was saying how proud she was (whilst I was telling her to shush) of me that I had taken the leap and start going places on my own. ...
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