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2005 - October 22nd - Saturday

Kathy phoned JH at about 1300hr: Kathy said that Maggie required a letter from JH’s GP stating that JH was fit enough to give a kidney – an email would not do; Kathy said that the Skinners had to pay their GP if they wanted a letter of this sort, and that the Skinners wished to pay for JH’s letter; JH said that there was no need for them to do this; JH asked if Kathy had read the ‘Try not to make the recipient feel indebted’ item on page 40 of the booklet Living Donor kidney Transplantation, Your Questions Answered; Kathy said she had read one booklet she had been given but not the other; Kathy had been given two copies of one booklet, one for herself and one for JH – but JH had explained previously that she had been given leaflets, etc, by Sara Stacey, so Kathy intended to give one copy to her relatives (JH observes that perhaps the booklet Kathy had a duplicate of was not the same as JH’s).  JH reassured Kathy that JH is solvent!  Kathy then ‘felt like a good weep’, however, off she went to visit her grandson, Myles, in Greenwich. 


The child in this postcard looks very similar to Myles

Kathy also informed JH that, during the last week, she had been up to the RLH for another blood test but that the Consultant she was supposed to be seeing was not there; obviously Kathy was upset but it seems that the blood test got done.
 
  
JH phoned the Dialysis Unit at Southend Hospital:  She spoke to a member of the Nursing Staff who tried her best to find Maggie Farrell but she was not around;  JH stated that she thought Kathy was getting ‘a bit muddled’ and JH would like to have a conversation sometime with Maggie; in any event, JH was told that Maggie was a Sister – she didn’t have any posh titles such as ‘Live Donor Transplant Co-ordinator’!  JH simply left a message for Maggie stating that she was going to get a letter from her GP to state that she was fit enough to give a kidney away.

JH had thought of phoning Kathy back on her mobile but wondered if she was doing the driving; JH rang in the evening on the Skinners’ home number and got the answerphone; JH said that she had left the Hospital with a pension lump sum and redundancy pay to the tune of about £33,000; she told Kathy that she would, of course be very upset if she could not give Kathy a kidney, and that she would be even more upset if Kathy rejected the donated kidney!  JH reiterated that Kathy ‘should not worry’.  JH told Kathy that she had rung the Dialysis Unit and that JH was quite sure that Maggie was the definitive person to deal with.  Action: phone and/or write another letter to GP to arrange appointment and offer payment; send email to Sara Stacey to update her.
 


 
 
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