"In launching my podcast, I wanted to bring to the table what I learned from my 20 years of working in the NHS as part of a multi-disciplinary team in speech and occupational therapy. I wanted to draw on my own negative health experiences, empowering others to be their own health manager and not a passive observer of their own medical care. I wanted to take the listener back to day one, the day their life changed forever when they were told that their kidneys were failing, when they weren’t in the emotional or psychological place to process the information they were being given, and create something that they could listen back to as many times as they needed to. I wanted to explore all areas of kidney disease and talk about difficult and sensitive subjects, but always with the message of hope."
Diary of a Kidney Warrior Podcast: episode 1
Dee Moore's Kidney Warrior Story
Dee Moore was diagnosed with stage 4 chronic kidney disease (CKD) in 2018. She decided to share her journey online, creating a vlog before moving into podcasting in the summer of 2020. Her Diary of a Kidney Warrior Podcast is now created in partnership with Kidney Care UK.
Dee says: “When I was discharged from hospital and was feeling lost, the first organisation that I reached out to was Kidney Care UK. To be able to pay that support forward and work together with Kidney Care UK who supported me in my hour of need to help my fellow Kidney Warriors is really an honour.
"Every aspect of CKD is open for exploration in the podcast and I have covered subjects such as mental health, sleep hygiene, understanding renal blood test results, deceased and living organ donation, and advice for newly diagnosed kidney warriors. I hope that listeners will feel educated, empowered and inspired to thrive within their own kidney warrior journey.”
The interviews in the podcast are intimate and informative, and each episode explores different aspects of kidney disease. It also aims to be encouraging and uplifting. Whether you live with kidney disease, or a family or friend does, this podcast will help you learn more.
Diary of a Kidney Warrior Podcast: listen now
New episodes of Diary of Kidney Warrior Podcast are available to download every other Monday from Podbean, Apple Podcast and Spotify. You can also listen to episodes on YouTube.
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Episode 47
Receiving a kidney from an increased risk donor: Katie‘s kidney
Katie Scott, special needs nanny, actor, director and small business owner, joins Dee Moore to share her inspirational Kidney Warrior story, from being diagnosed with Kidney Disease at the young age of 7 to making the decision to receive a Kidney from an increased risk donor.
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Episode 46
Celebrating Black living kidney donors
As part of the Black History Month celebrations, Diary of a Kidney Warrior Podcast will running a series focusing on the topics around kidney health and the Black Community. In this fourth & final two part episode in the Kidney Health and the Black Community series, Dela Idowu & Richie Mazivanhanga join Dee Moore to discuss the work of GOLD, Gift of Living Donation Charity, and the contribution of the Black Community to living donation. In part two Ritchie shares his living kidney donor story.
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Episode 45
The relationship between diabetes, hypertension and kidney disease and the impact on the Black Community
As part of the Black History Month celebrations, Diary of a Kidney Warrior Podcast will running a series focusing on the topics around kidney health and the Black Community. In this third episode in the series, Specialist Renal Nurse, Pat Simoyi and Advanced Specialist Diabetes Nurse, Angela Thomas join Dee Moore to take a closer look at the top two causes of kidney disease, type 2 diabetes and hypertension, and their impact on the Black Community.
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Episode 44
Why are Black people more likely To develop kidney disease and what are we doing about it?
As part of the Black History Month celebrations, Diary of a Kidney Warrior Podcast will running a series focusing on the topics around kidney health and the Black Community. In this second episode in the series, Honorary Consultant Nephrologist and Clinical Senior Lecturer Dr Kate Bramham joins Dee Moore to address the question: “Why are Black people more likely to develop kidney disease and what are we doing about it?“ Dr Kate talks about her research of the causes of Kidney disease in the Black Community, the removal of the race based calculation of eGFR, and kidney health advice.
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Episode 43
Tearing down the walls: the story of Dr Velma Scantlebury, America’s first female Black Transplant Surgeon.
This first episode in the kidney health and the Black Community series, features Dr Velma Scantlebury. Dr Scantlebury is an honour and award winning transplant surgeon and author from Delaware, USA who shares about her journey to becoming a surgeon, health inequalities, and more.
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Episode 42
What happens on the day of a kidney transplant and beyond?
Monday 20 to Sunday 26 September 2021 is Organ Donation Week. Consultant Transplant Surgeon Dr Hannah Maple joins Dee Moore to talk about what happens on the day of a kidney transplant and beyond.
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Episode 41
Megan's kidney warrior story
Organ donation promoter and blogger Megan Cairns joins Dee Moore to share her inspirational Kidney Warrior story, from being diagnosed with end stage renal failure at the young age of five to being on dialysis and receiving a kidney transplant.
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Episode 40
Jonathan's kidney warrior story
Kidney advocate, ambassador and podcast host, Jonathan Traylor, joins Dee Moore to share his inspirational kidney warrior story, from his sudden diagnosis of end stage renal failure to having in-centre haemodialysis, home haemodialysis and receiving a kidney transplant.
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Episode 39
The kidney transplant recipient work-up process
Transplant Recipient Coordinator Trevene Wilson joins Dee Moore to explain the kidney transplant recipient work-up process. They also discuss the tests involved in deciding whether a kidney patient can proceed with being placed on the deceased donor waiting list or proceed with a living kidney donor transplant.
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Episode 38
Business owner and kidney health advocate Pete Klair shares his inspirational kidney warrior story
Pete shares about his sudden diagnosis of kidney disease, overcoming depression, the failure of two kidney transplants, being empowered to manage his dialysis treatment and the lessons he has learned along his kidney warrior journey.
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Episode 37
Consultant Transplant Surgeon Dr Frank Dor returns to answer questions submitted by listeners
Dr Frank Dor answers questions about the Covid-19 vaccine, race and transplantation, music and transplant surgery, kidney transplant surgery, photographs and surgery, exercise and muscle tone following transplant surgery, and more.
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