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Category: Patient Stories

Student vs Teacher Dodgeball Tournament Raises Awareness for Organ Transplant

Posted on April 2023May 2023

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

News, Patient News, Patient Stories, Staff NewsTagged Kidney Health, Manitoba Renal Program, MRP, Organ Donor Awareness Month

Kidney Health Month: Know Your Risk

Posted on March 2023March 2023

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

News, Patient News, Patient Stories, Staff News

Back to Thompson: Family Trains on Home Hemodialysis to Get Back Home

Posted on May 2019August 2019

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

Home Hemodialysis, News, Patient Stories

Cy Bona – 92 Year Old Dialysis Patient Serenades In-Unit Waiting Rooms

Posted on July 2018September 2019

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

News, Patient StoriesTagged Year in Review 2018-19

MRP Using Innovative New Peritoneal Dialysis Equipment

Posted on June 2018October 2019

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

News, Patient Stories

Paul Harris – 90 Years Young and on Home Hemodialysis

Posted on February 2018May 2019

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

News, Patient Stories

Morning Greetings a Must for Dialysis Patient ‘Cowboy’

Posted on November 2017May 2019

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

News, Patient Stories

Barry Marks 25 Years on Hemodialysis

Posted on September 2017August 2019

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

News, Patient Stories

Baby Steps to Big Gains – How an Exercise Class for People with Kidney Disease is Changing Lives

Posted on September 2017May 2019

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

News, Patient Stories

Kidney Failure: Symptoms & Stereotypes

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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