Maddy Warren was a fit and healthy teenager when she noticed something was wrong. The 39-year-old has not let the kidney disease she was diagnosed with stop her and tells Paul Gallagher why she is celebrating 25 years on dialysis in style.
, steroid treatment, all sorts of horrible drugs to suppress the immune reaction. I was incredibly sick throughout that time. By the end of that period my kidney function was really poor and that’s when we decided to take my kidneys out and I started dialysis. That was October 1998.
They taught me how to do everything with the machine, which I did every night at home, for seven hours, and then I would be off to school the next day. That gave me the freedom to go back to normality, compared with being in and out of hospital constantly and not knowing where I stood with my health. Actually, I found dialysis a real relief in that way.
Whereas you can do a lot more dialysis if you’re at home so you feel better: it’s your schedule and you’re fully in control and that’s why I chose it. I wanted to go to university, have a career, and home dialysis would give me that. But then I got into banking via an internship at Barclays Bank, working in their HR department, and my career took off, so it didn’t make any difference not having a degree in the first place! I’m pleased I gave it a go. I went on to do the Barclays manager training scheme, out in a bank branch near Croydon for nearly five years, which I loved. How to manage people, dealing with the public, and being part of a team.
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