Help Us Find A Kidney For Ellie

Sickboy

CBC

Society & Culture

4.8 • 524 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2024

⏱️ 112 minutes

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Summary

In this heart-tugging episode, the fellas dive into a tale of resilience, love, and the complexities of kidney transplantation with one ultimate goal - finding a Kidney for our dear friend, Ellie. Ellie is a rockstar nurse battling kidney disease. She opens up about her journey through kidney failure, dialysis, and the quest for a second transplant after her first one has hit a rough patch. Ellie's story is nothing short of a rollercoaster. She sheds light on the emotional and logistical hurdles of finding a kidney match, all while juggling life with her superhero partner, Keegan, and contemplating the future of their family.

But it doesn’t end there! Jeremie then chats with Candice Coghlan from the Centre for Living Organ Donation, who brings her own kidney transplant tale and heaps of knowledge about the kidney-paired exchange program. Candice debunks transplant myths, giving us the lowdown on how we can play a part in this life-saving process.

To cap it all off, the boys share a laugh over a bizarre encounter with a patient simulation robot that's eerily reminiscent of a 10-year-old boy, because what's a deep dive into medical marvels without a touch of Chucky being sliced open over and over again before ultimately turning on his “care providers”?

Here’s the thing folks. This isn’t just another episode of Sickboy. This is a mission. Help us find a kidney for Ellie! For more information check out the links below.

Key Takeaways

- Kidney disease can have a significant impact on a person's life, requiring dialysis and potentially multiple kidney transplants.

- Finding a compatible donor for a kidney transplant can be challenging, especially for individuals with a high level of antibodies.

- Kidney disease can affect decisions about family planning, and options such as freezing eggs may be considered.

- The kidney-paired exchange program increases the chances of finding a compatible kidney for transplantation.

- Donating a kidney can save someone's life, and individuals can enter the program as directed donors or non-directed anonymous donors.

- Living with kidney disease can take away the ability to feel carefree, but it can also foster empathy for others.

- Nurses play a crucial role in the healthcare system and are often underappreciated and undervalued.

- Spreading awareness about the kidney donation program can help more people find suitable donors.

- The kidney paired exchange program allows people with living donors who are not compatible to find a suitable match through a national registry.

- Potential kidney donors go through a rigorous evaluation process to ensure they are healthy enough to donate.

- Living kidney donors can live healthy, normal lives with just one kidney.

In the event of a potential organ donor, please call (902) 473-2222 and have the on-call Donor Transplant Coordinator at the QEII paged.

Follow Ellie's story on Instagram: @kidneyforellie

Find more information on UHN Transplant:

- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAMBVV4rdvQTo14ts34phBg

- https://www.uhn.ca/Transplant

- Instagram: @givelifeuhn

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0:51.2	And this brings us to a moment that we've been very excited to bring to you
0:56.5	it's it's uh it's the first episode of our new format of the show uh sick boy 2.0 the evolution
1:10.1	and um and man i like i got to say, you know, like, for
1:14.8	anybody who's been listening for a long time, you, you have witnessed us very much grow over
1:22.4	the years into what, what we've become today. It started, you know, if you go back to that very first episode, it's very funny, I listened
1:28.7	to it not long ago, and like, we had no clue what we were doing.
1:32.6	But it was so much fun.
1:35.0	And we, and we kind of just fell into it naturally.
1:38.0	And we, the whole thing was just such an organic process.
1:47.6	And then, you know, the show had a bit of a sort of its own evolution when COVID hit. It sort of forced us out of the space of recording
1:55.8	with people in studio. I mean, up to that point, like we, we would never record with someone
2:00.4	unless they were in person because we thought that that was what equated to a good conversation, like the human element of being in that space with the person, which there's definitely something to be said for that.
2:11.1	But COVID forced us to, like, start doing virtual recordings, which we found our way. and I feel like we do pretty well.
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