Patient Stories

Grady in a “Grady’s Gang” shirt signed by all his classmates.

As many as one in 10 adults in Manitoba are living with kidney disease, and most don’t even know it,…

The day Renee Healey has been waiting for is nearly here.

Music has always been part of 92-year-old Cyril Bona’s life. From the time he was a teenager, he loved to…

In the fall of 2017, Manitoba Renal Program began piloting the use of a new home peritoneal dialysis (PD) machine….

Submitted by Paul Harris, Home Hemodialysis Patient In February of 2009 at the age of 81, I was told that…

Just inside the doors of Health Sciences Centre’s Sherbrook Street entrance, a warm greeting awaits staff, patients and visitors coming…

Sitting in a Seven Oaks General Hospital (SOGH) hemodialysis unit, Barry Kiriluk receives his routine dialysis treatment. Today marks 25…

For almost three years Gordon Thurston has been receiving dialysis three times a week. Before his kidneys failed, exercise was…

Posted on June 2017May 2019

Barry Spence was feeling the symptoms of end-stage kidney disease when he was kicked off a bus in rural Manitoba…

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