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Category: 5 Things I’ll Never Forget

5 Things I’ll Never Forget:
Choosing to be Empowered

May 17, 2018 7 Comments

This post is Part 5 in a series based on a presentation I recently did. The rest of the posts can be found here. The longer I have been a renal patient and have got to know a very broad cross-section of our little “renal world”, the more motivated I’ve become to want to do […]

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5 Things I’ll Never Forget:
It’s ok to not be ok.

April 1, 2018 2 Comments

This post is Part 4 in a series based on a presentation I recently did. The rest of the posts can be found here. I have some friends who joke that there’s some debate over whether I really qualify as a renal patient. Compared to what some of them have lived through, and in many […]

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5 Things I’ll Never Forget:
Building Relationships

March 19, 2018 1 Comment

This post is Part 3 in a series based on a presentation I recently did. The rest of the posts can be found here. When I was first diagnosed, I lived in New Zealand. As brilliant as the medical treatment I got there was, NZ is a tiny country population-wise, and I knew a grand […]

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5 Things I’ll Never Forget:
I don’t know what to say…

March 7, 2018 1 Comment

This post is Part 2 in a series based on a presentation I recently did. The rest of the posts can be found here. Figuring out how to juggle being “healthy” and “sick” at the same time was extremely challenging, and it was made even harder by the fact that everybody else in my life was […]

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5 Things I’ll Never Forget:
“Is this really me?”

March 5, 2018 Leave a comment

This post is Part I in a series based on a presentation I recently did. The rest of the posts can be found here. The photo of me on the left is how I thought my life was always going to be. A busy, full-time career working as a primary school teacher. That is, until […]

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I’m Holly. I love cats, coffee, writing and anything with glitter. Billy the Kid is my transplanted kidney.

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