Cardiac death organs now “good” for transplants

Awoken with a start at 6.55 AM by the phone. At that time of day it’s usually bad news, or somebody in Sweden not thinking. Today, it was BBC Surrey Radio. Phone voice: “Cim, can you do an interview in 20 minutes with Nick Wallis on his breakfast show?” Cim: “Of course”. Cim has of [...]

Our job: Find out Why People Would Receive an Organ but Won’t Sign Up

We were interviewed recently on BBC Surrey Radio as part of a new campaign to encourage people to sign up to the NHS organ donor register. The interview as posted unfortunately didn’t cover the whole interview, I think the last few minutes was cut off for some reason.Until we get the permanent download, I’d like [...]

Interview on BBC Surrey Radio

If you got stuck in traffic this morning in the Guildford area, I must apologise.  The extra chaos was no doubt caused because Cim and I were called in to be interviewed live from the studios of BBC Surrey Radio. Rush hour?  Maybe, but traffic is not as bad on interview-free days. We were on [...]

Apple’s Steve Jobs ‘Admits’ to Liver Transplant

You don’t normally expect personal revelations at a company bash, but if you work at computer giants Apple, and your boss is Steve Jobs, maybe you get used to them. But at the recent Apple conference, where big things were expected, nobody was quite ready for Jobs’ announcing his recent successful liver transplant. Here is [...]

What would make you actually register as an donor?

As Jerry wrote earlier, on Wednesday morning’s BBC Breakfast TV they talked about transplants and organ donation in the UK, and how we need more people to register as organ donors. As always – my ears get very big, as we say in Swedish, which means I listen in a way that I rarely do, [...]

Transplant Trust on BBC Breakfast

I felt a pang of guilt as I switched on to BBC Breakfast this morning. No, not because I should have been doing something less boring instead, but because there, on the screen was Vashti Poole from the Transplant Trust. “Still haven’t finished the Transplant Games write-up, have you” she seemed to accuse me as [...]

Crown Princess Victoria’s Fiancé in Kidney Swap Drama

Sorry about crap headline, but it’s all true – apart from the “drama” bit. Sweden’s Princess Victoria’s husband to be, Daniel Westling, has had a kidney transplant, I found out today from one of my Swedish friends. His donor was his father and it all went well, so no drama. I mention it here because [...]

Life Givers, BBC1

Before watching the first two Lifegivers programmes on BBC1, my slight worry was who is going to watch this? As posted previously, Cim and I are appearing on Thursday morning*, so that’s got an obvious attraction; we’re not fooled by the promise of Gabby Logan. But really, is it going to be just those families [...]

Live! on the BBC

Did I mention we’re going to be on TV next week? If not, it’s because I didn’t know what it was going to be, but now I do. A very nice young lady phoned Cim a few weeks ago and asked if we’d like to be on TV with our transplant/Antarctica story. Cim said it [...]

National Transplant Week

This is what we’ve been working up to since coming back from Antarctica: National Transplant Week, the major awareness and fundraising focus week for our charity, Transplants in Mind. It runs from 6th – 13th July with the media launch tonight (Tuesday 8th, I know), at the Transport Museum in Covent Garden We will be [...]